The incestuous web of viral clapbacks, parodies, fact-checks, etc. is just Twitter "power users" socializing with their friends It wouldn't change anything if they were just having those convos in a NY or DC bar, like they would've been doing if Twitter didn't exist
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I think that's what gets me the most, that "everyone on Twitter" isn't even really everyone on Twitter, much less a reflection of the world If "everyone on Twitter" the way the Twitter Cool Kids meant it actually mattered for jack fucking shit *nothing* would be the way it is
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"Everyone on Twitter" hated Joker, Joker grossed a billion dollars and won Best Actor with eleven nominations "Everyone on Twitter" thought Joe Biden was the shittiest candidate in the Dem primary -- barely even mentioned in some people's rankings -- now he's the President-elect
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Obviously I'm one of "everyone on Twitter" and I say this because it's so damn painful realizing nothing you say or do here means a goddamn thing in the real world people actually live in, and it's so frustrating watching other people fuck around who haven't gotten that memo
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Like, shit, the disconnect between "Asian-American Twitter" and actual Asian America is HUGE All I have to do is talk to my relatives -- my parents or my brother -- to know that Are you shocked that 31% of self-IDed Asian voters voted for Trump? You shouldn't be
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People who were shocked that Aaron Coleman won his election in Kansas City Well, sure, Twitter dunked on him plenty, and big national pubs wrote op-eds roasting the fuck out of him -- read mostly by "plugged-in" politicos in big cities
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But the KC Daily Star put their attacks on him behind a paywall, and afaik the local evening news never actually did a spot on him (why would they, it's a single State House seat) He was "nationally viral" on Twitter but apparently never went locally viral in his hometown
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So, big surprise, the predictable fact that he was on the ballot unopposed means he won It's always like that People repeatedly shocked and confused that a tweet can go "viral" and get like 200,000 unique impressions and yet nobody who actually matters has ever even heard of it
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I still think about the Arab Spring and the incredibly self-aggrandizing role tech people gave Twitter in that whole series of events
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This nonsense where people deliberately conflated "using Twitter as a tool to evade censorship and communicate with people you already know irl" with the totally different, much stupider idea that "Twitter is where politics happens now, tweeting is organizing"
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People turning their pfps green and shit I really do feel like the wave of green-tinted icons that swept Twitter in 2009 encapsulates the utter narcissistic stupidity that would define the Western clique of "everyone on Twitter" for the next decade
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Oh yeah, everyone who did that was do stupid *chuckles nervously*
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