1/ If I was conspiratorial, I'd wonder if there was some soulless PR manager out there who reached out to incurious and unimaginative assholes during their 15 minutes of viral fame and asked, "do you want to drag this shit out, forever?"https://twitter.com/KaitMarieox/status/1004350093099663361 …
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2/ But, there's no conspiracy. Reality is simpler. The proliferation of selfish assholes incapable of critical thinking has created a ripe and self-renewing market for grifters who stumble upon the profitable role of acting as a focal point for coordinating fantasies of pwnage.
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Replying to @randyzwitch
Sure, but I think the balance is way more in favor of the stumble-upon crowd thanks to this algorithmic mess we all play on. The PR people are more boutique-ish, managing people once they happen to persist for more than 15 minutes.
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Replying to @generativist
I’m just saying that when I was 21, there’s no way I’d make a comparison like that. Either she’s the most conservative college student on Earth, or someone is feeding that stuff to her on schedule.
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Replying to @randyzwitch
Twitter. Like, you can watch a dumb idea spread, and it does based on a really simple fitness function -- divisiveness. Like, a high number of combative comments is all the signal other assholes need to play the same hand.
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Replying to @generativist
So you’re taking the plagiarism angle instead of the PR leech. Nothing left to discuss, we might both be right :)
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