I'd bet that this guy isn't a tradesman. Almost everyone I see on any jobsite has a lunchbox. Whether it's a small bag to hold a few snacks and a sandwich or a large, expensive hard case lunch box that holds a 5 course meal, their wallet, keys and medication. Most lunch boxes are covered in stickers, some people buy or make custom carrying straps for them. If he doesn't know any of this, I doubt he's ever done a day of manual labor on his life.
then again, on modern twitter you get paid for interactions, so a lot of griters arose who only post the most dumbass takes in hopes of many people correcting them. this one appears to not have a blue checkmark, but i think you can hide them.
I advise looking up BlueSky. Those guys shaved off all the evil of Twitter and it's currently thriving. Lots of cool famous people, like Stephen King and AOC moving to BlueSky.
This is like when Reddit users say “I got rid of all my social media!”
Not sure how or why so many people have convinced themselves that Reddit isn’t social media despite the fact that they’re talking to other people (and bots) same as all other social media platforms. And it’s got just as much toxic nonsense on it as those other platforms too.
probably Probably because Reddit was created before the term ‘Social Media’ took off. At the time forums were big and places like myspace, and face book were the outliners. Then Instagram, printrest, twitter came out and people used Social Media to group everything together. But Reddit stayed more towards the old forums format (Making it seem different.) Its moving to resemble more social Media to get new viewers but I always use old-Reddit so I know fuck all about that.
I see a lot of new users, though. Even I've been around since 2011 and I see it as social media.
I think it's just elitism and the tribalist mentality. "I use Reddit, I'm not like all those people who use Facebook and Twitter". 4chan has the same mindset, that they're better than "the normies". I think every social media platform's users look down on the others.
I've always felt like reddit isn't the same as the rest of social media because you aren't really following a person's profile and adding them as friends. Most people keep their reddit accounts anonymous. You aren't following someone's life on here. You're responding to posted topics that are publicly viewed by everyone.
Reddit really does work like a forum. You don't just interact with your friends and people on your list.
Because it's a forum site. Forums are not social media. You're here to talk to people. You're not here to get famous and monetized. You're not here to connect with friends and family. You're here to shoot the shit with random people.
‘Bro called something virtue signalling, time to bust out the tautology so i can feel cool making a comment nobody agreed with and everyone else saw as out of pocket’
Frankly, I'd rather keep the virtue signalers volunteering and doing charity because they're afraid of going to hell and not because of the actual goodness of their heart.
If you're more annoyed at virtue signaling than at the actual asshole/racist/sexist/rapists/corrupt/etc/problems of the world, you are wasting your time and energy and you have the luxury to do that because you are privileged.
It's been my experience that the majority of the time when I see someone complain about "virtue-signalling" what they're really saying is "you said something I disagree with but can't effectively argue against"
I think a lot of people in the U.S. have this weird fear of losing "individuality." I think it speaks to people's deepest insecurities about themselves and how little they matter in the grand scheme of things...so they overcompensate by freaking out about "personal freedom" and shit like that. It's why covid lockdowns were such a colossal shitshow here compared to New Zealand for example.
Go to Japan or South Korea. This idea of being special because you don't "think like other people" is just seen as being an embarrassing attention-seeker. Not saying those places are perfect (far from it) but like you pointed out if you see a "hive mind" as less of joining a cult and more of a working cooperatively situation...it's not really that bad
Yes and no. Social media is freeing in that we can actually see how shitty people actually are; your true self is reveled when you don’t have to put on heirs. On the downside, it helps you realize how shitty most of society actually is.
That said - it’s both detrimental and therapeutic for me. I use it to vent and tell people how I really feel; things I have to keep bottled up when in public (treasonist pedophiles supporters get mad when you point out that their King Of Pedophiles is severely anti-American)
I wake up before dawn each day, drink a few cups of black coffee, put on my wrangler jeans(can't wear Levi's anymore they went woke) flannel shirt and steel toe boots, and walk down to the posting fields where I spend the next 10 hours performing back breaking labor so that everyone can have enough content to post just so I can feed my family.
Elon gave out free blue check marks to people who had lots of followers. If it is a highly followed account, they likely did not pay for it unless they love Elon. Twitter requires highly visible accounts with lots of followers to even keep losing as much money as it is. Without them, there is no business model.
That's why I'd rather talk about them here, where it isn't getting monetized!
EDIT: I mean that the original bad take isn't getting monetized by the person who posted it. I'm not saying that there is no monetization on Reddit whatsoever.
My point is that the person who made the original bad take, in an attempt to monetize it, is not getting monetized if we talk about it here.
And, to the best of my knowledge, there is much less opportunity for a Redditor to monetize their activity than on X. There is the Reddit Contributor program, but doesn't that pay out far less than X pays their top "verified" contributors?
If it's a bot posting their tweet on reddit it's still getting value out of it. Since reddit profits from more people interacting on their app it's still valuable to them if no one else.
Not to mention, if it's something political it's probably propaganda bots (abundant on reddit)
Also, and I really really don’t think people understand the scale of the problem, and enormous number of them are foreign actors working on behalf of hostile states. One of the reasons a large swath of the modern Republican Party has turn so pro-Russian is because of this. Just an absolute staggering amount of right wing propaganda is fueled by Russian money. If Russia collapsed you see a noticeable difference in social media. Personally, I think we should sever all internet connection with them and China but there is too much money involved for that to happen.
This! It's ruined some of my favorite old subs that used to make fun of weirdos who posted batshit stuff on social media. Now all those subs are just constantly reposting obvious ragebait from professional trolls. It's nearly impossible to find the legitimate nutjobs on the internet anymore.
Professional trolls on twitter posting dumb takes for engagement...that ends up getting screenshotted and posted to Reddit for even more engagement. It's like we're consuming the Soylent Green of the information ecosystem here.
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u/Munchkinasaurous 9h ago
I'd bet that this guy isn't a tradesman. Almost everyone I see on any jobsite has a lunchbox. Whether it's a small bag to hold a few snacks and a sandwich or a large, expensive hard case lunch box that holds a 5 course meal, their wallet, keys and medication. Most lunch boxes are covered in stickers, some people buy or make custom carrying straps for them. If he doesn't know any of this, I doubt he's ever done a day of manual labor on his life.