okay literally just delete twitter at this point

[@Cici-ft7hn]

bro the fact that the “not interested” or blocks barely worked! twitter’s so far right that it also doesn’t understand no means no 😬

[@YourLocalNobody420]

Damn 💀

[@BiBiren]

First time? Happens in Facebook, too. Yeah, ik no one uses FB except for old people but most of ppl in my country still uses it.

[@NickiRusin]

it has a rapey feel to it

[@laura-zo4ry]

Lmao 🤣

[@carrington2949]

Happens on KZbin all of the time.

[@mcd8528]

I love how X makes you go through the captcha equivalent of a two hour company wide HR quiz, but then you log on and it's all bots

[@singlereedenjoyer]

not gonna lie I tried to make a twitter account a while back and it made me go through so much shit only to just not work and send me back to the start so I didn’t bother

[@jacksim5759]

fr

[@violet5250]

😮😮😮😮😮

[@elephant4053]

Its because the bots that were already on the app didn't have anything done to them🤩

[@eragonawesome]

It's such a shit captcha too, like, reading distorted text and images are *the one thing* AI has been good at for a long time with all the work put into optical character recognition

[@Raiderman227]

Elon literally named it X because of his failed attempt to rename PayPal X. A name they thought so dumb they ousted him from the company. He is the largest ego on earth

[@quirkypurple3]

for real. imagine gaining rights to twitter, a social media touchstone for over a decade. it’s been referenced in countless movies, TV, and other media… the verb “tweet” was iconic. and then doing… that with it.

[@originofsky]

he's such a pathetic prick fr

[@blockalism]

And it really shows that he's been trying to make X happen for a quarter century, because it's based on the idea that you need a name that's easy to type into the address bar. That made a lot more sense in 1999, but nowadays, having a one letter domain name isn't just irrelevant, it's counterproductive, because it's totally ungooglable.

[@bondickle]

Largest ego on Earth and in space too, probably. And no Elon, that's not a good thing!

[@kerisaltchannel3817]

@@blockalismat this point just give up (Idk if this is the correct quote) “stop trying to make X happen it’s not gonna happen” Is what I thought of 😂

[@LiltrexYT]

I don't use Twitter but, I feel like the entire internet is extremely combative. It's horrendous opening a comment section on any social media platform.

[@VultureSkins]

Genuinely, Twitter is worse than the other like, canon social medias in terms of combative-ness. Idk how the culture on there got that way exactly, but it is That Bad

[@BeforeOurCrime]

This is true. Some places are just more of a cesspool than others

[@WinniePooh33]

Its basically like highschool, bullying each other, just soo negative.

[@user-dj6lj1dl1c]

its done intentionally. its literally all because it makes a ton of money for companies since anger is by far the emotion that causes the most engagement and time spent on an app. if it was literally any other emotion that caused you to see ads and spend time on them, that is the emotion every site would be entirely built around

[@monisolaolubuyimo6024]

@@user-dj6lj1dl1cvery true

[@nicelight7794]

It is alarming how little people realize how awful Elon Musk actually is and how much worse Twitter has gotten since his takeover. Racism against minorities (especially anti-blackness), homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, nazism... all disturbingly common on there now. And Elon regularly, frequently interacts with accounts sharing such rhetoric and viewpoints. He boosts them, agrees with them. It is hellish and serious. It shouldn't be understated, given how many of the awful views spread there aren't just contained within Twitter, but this is having actual effects on the real world.

[@when-do-we-get-a-block-button]

you can unironically get flagged and banned for being pro-(anything not conservative) while those calling you slurs in the replies will get flagged and their "bot" will see nothing wrong. you can say N-hard r, F@-t, Tr@-y. but you CANT say cis.

[@jglarpo]

It’s genuinely disturbing how misogynistic gay men have gotten on the app…

[@Prettykittychimi]

I may live under a rock but I didn’t realize he’s coo coo for cocoa puffs until he lost his shit over a school transgender law that passed in CA a couple months ago. I was like, does he even have kids, what’s his deal? Then I asked google if he has kids and google said, “girl, are you stupid? Also, look at all this terrible stuff he’s said.”Anyway, I’m not surprised.

[@willowarkan2263]

@@jglarpo i guess the rest fully migrated to tumblr or one of the smaller twitter replacements.

[@crispy7499]

Elon is a rodent incapable of empathy, good or kindness.

[@zalletu]

I didn’t realise how much X promotes far-right conservatives. All those recommendations were crazy. No wonder so many young people get radicalized that way

[@NoxAeterna-wf4iv]

But..but..but..what bout the trans aliens?

[@janiqueberrell1289]

the minute i signed up, all i saw were conservative tweets. I put that I wanted to see cooking and entertainment

[@MartKencuda]

what the fuck is X?

[@HungryEyes-sl3mu]

Twitter is the one and only instance where dead-naming is acceptable

[@tree4318]

it's insane deranged and pure evil.

[@zookeeper3322]

tumblrs system of blocking tags should be on every website ever, would love to block phrases from my internet experience

[@SomeplaceScary]

I was thrilled when tumblr introduced the blocking feature for tags and keywords. I'd had to use a plug-in before that.

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

you can on twitter but they just expect you to figure it out and dont tell you

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Legit love tumblr for having no algorithm and blocking what you dont wanna see

[@chumiimin]

In my case even after blocking tags I have still seen those topics. And beyond that, the tags are limited, I'm beyond tired of blocking accounts that post incel adjacent memes and discussions, but they keep appearing on my TL.

[@FrumiousMing8]

Tumblr is literally the only thing I use regularly. No influencers or algorithm (I mean there is an algorithm but it's not your main feed & completely optional). I can completely curate my own experience with blocked tags and the blogs & tags I follow. Tumblr has its faults and downsides for sure. But for me, it is the best website/app that offers a variety of content and the options to filter out what I don't want to see.

[@pepinopenguim]

Created a Tumblr account, for now it's a pretty wholesome site, lots of people just talking about their favorite shows and giving tips on self improvement

[@miritallstag336]

Plus the only things you see on your dash are from people or tags that you're following! And the block button works!

[@kennedygardiner42o]

Lord bless you, it wasn't always like that. Tumblr circa 2010 was more toxic than tiktok and Twitter combined 😅😭

[@thewolf9851]

And did you improve yourself?

[@pepinopenguim]

@@thewolf9851 Nah I still use reddit lol

[@pisceskitties]

disregarding the tremendous amounts of porn on there lmao

[@scruffopone3989]

You gotta hand it to Elon Musk, he saw Facebook being the worst social media website and said "Hold my Ketamine".

[@doctorlove5415]

😂

[@kina8575]

I want to give this comment an award 🥇

[@gillfreddie4100]

I feel so bad for myspace Facebook, reddit, twitter, 4chan, tumblr are all awful pieces of garbage that deserved myspaces' fate way more than myspace

[@litchichinesis]

literally

[@zagreus5773]

True, except Elon would never let go of his ketamin.

[@THEBANSHEEOFFICIAL]

i’m a bisexual drag artist. my dad has always been a center-right guy, even when i came out during high school. he’s recently become an empty nester, and because of that, he’s spending a LOT more time on Twitter. the radicalization of his worldview has been terrifying to watch. it is a cesspool, a right-wing echo chamber that is just a vehicle for propaganda. i just want my dad back.

[@shannonz3018]

I feel the same way with my dad on Facebook. I hate it. 😞

[@mossfrog9720]

It might annoy me that my dad refuses to have any social media but complains about his friends only arranging hangouts via social media but at least he can’t get worse at the speed

[@Soulcrash3]

Is he tech savvy? Because if he isn't just put some parental controls on his devices and send him a fake twitter email that his account is blocked. The good thing of x is that the customer service left along with anything of value in the platform. Shouldn't really be an issue to at least stop the radicalisation from going much further 😅

[@hydra6076]

This happened to my brother :( I’m not allowed around his family anymore and he just acts like I don’t exist to his kids

[@Mallowolf]

Going through the same with my dad and youtube 🫠

[@ThePeoplesBoy]

Deleted my twitter because it was completely impossible to block out all the rage bait. I had a "muted words" list, and then I'd get rage bait that was photos of text that were about the topics I had blocked. Astonishingly terrible website.

[@bluezuli]

YES! And muted words dont work bc people will write on the note app on apple instead of directly on twitter and post it as a image or spell the word you muted differently so you still see it

[@iambored678]

I think him following and unfollowing the alt right lady at 5:58 was the nail in the coffin. He thought he could "cheat the system" by not following anyone, but him following that lady for 2 seconds made the algorithm think he's alt right. I don't use Twitter, never have, so I could be wrong. I'd like to see him do this again and follow/unfollow a normal page to see if that makes a difference

[@Ana-cl3uy]

omg yes i’m about to delete it too because my for you page is completely not for me at all! so many posts I do not agree with and don’t want to interact with. Transphobia, misogyny, racist posts everywhere. It just feels like i’m looking at Elon’s for you page. It used to be so good. The trending page used to be my favorite place to find news, but now it’s just random. Huge news events won’t come on the trending page like what?

[@aiba6540]

Instagram is the same. Also Elon bought it and it got worst.

[@chrisgonzales5597]

And no matter how many people I block, someone will quote the most racist, homophobic, etc person imaginable

[@jkarnes45]

I'm an old white guy and I would not use Twitter as long as a musk owns it any more than I would vote for Trump

[@birdthebird3396]

You are a treasure

[@DopeScience27]

I am a brown guy and I made a twitter account shortly a few days before the uk riots and my god the amount of anti brown racist Neo n@zi Neo f@scist tweets that were pushed on my homepage were insane even after blocking not interested, I swear I thought that this is very violent rhetoric would cause attacks on immigrants and it really happened

[@nichan008]

gratz?

[@skurinski]

Who cares libturd

[@Elle-xf8mw]

we all did, i deleted it the day he took it hustage!

[@totitelevisionshow]

“if you’re bi.. bye!” d’angelo i am currently evaporating

[@Darbster]

Same here It's been ni

[@blakewhite3131]

😞✌️

[@zillionalb462]

Same

[@hellgazer8370]

ah, i see a spell has been ca

[@Justlurkin_lol]

I don’t feel so good, Mr stark (evaporates)

[@fiery_scream]

it drives me bonkers when people claim social media is "liberal" or pushes "censorship" when platforms like twitter and youtube famously lead people into conservative rabbit holes w/o any effort on the user's part.

[@Terra_Lopez]

I know, right? I clearly show youtube I like the way the left sees the world, as opposed to the right, but if I search any topic (let's call it 'A'), usually most of the results are 'what Matt Walsh says about A' or 'what Ben Shapiro thinks about A' or 'what Jordan Peterson thinks about A'. ... Even when things are biased in their favor, they still feel and act like they are persecuted.

[@rach8651]

And Reddit!

[@TheAristocunts]

Yes! I love this take! This is exactly what I’ve been thinking…I have hidden SO much conservative content/ads and I still see it as opposed to hiding anything else.

[@sarahnicoleanastasia]

Those types think that seeing other ppls opinions that they dont like = the entire media is stacked against them. They want to go back to the days when black ppl, women, LGBTQ, disabled ppl , not xtians, human rights activists etc etc didn’t have a voice and were locked out of access to any of these conversations

[@jovianmelendez]

Literally I get so many right wing agenda ads it's insane. I wouldn't even mind if it showed me ads from both sides I'm all for free speech but I seem to only get ads trying to make me watch right wing/conservative content so it's super annoying.

[@arrowheaded]

I knew transphobia on Twitter was out of control, but they're actually promoting it EVEN when the user selects "Not Interested"??? That is scary.

[@ANTIStraussian]

Lol he made it 10 posts and post 11 was about trans husband 😂

[@venkatkimidi2954]

@@arrowheaded the transphobia seemed like it was getting promoted more than any other conservative politics talking point as well. Maybe it's because Elon has a trans daughter who hates him?

[@alexjaybrady]

No matter how many times I block mute and click not interested they will still insist I a transwoman need to see what JKRowling has to say about my extermination 😅

[@arrowheaded]

@@alexjaybrady unfortunately relatable 💔💔

[@TheNoxolotl]

Hes actively trying to promote it 🤦‍♀️

[@joaovitorcamargo7165]

It got banned here in Brazil and dude, people are happier.

[@deanwinchesterinthedarktower]

I think that since Elon can't respect his trans child, and insists on deadnaming them, we should all collectively agree that we should keep the same energy, and continue to call it Twitter.

[@mkbXD]

i’ve never once called it X just cause it’s dumb

[@LHZOZ777]

🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️ SPITTING ‼️

[@nikkikoz4720]

Yep I've been doing that since he tried to change the name and it made it impossible not to follow him

[@Angie_bae]

💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@Ah-Sol]

Twxtter

[@sakurayankishi9708]

Do this men ever wonder that maybe the reason why they are so depressed is because they keep creating harmful and unreasonable standards like 'carry shopping cart makes you less of a man', I'm not a man but that has to be unhealthy

[@maybemablemaples2144]

No, they think you're trying to take away what they THINK masculinity means by trying to be better people. It's counterintuitive, but they think you should struggle through the dumbest things, or you're not a man. It's 3rd grade logic.

[@princicat]

men dont wanna admit that the same structures oppressing women and lgbtq also punish them too. dont show emotion, dont wear fun clothes, dont ask for help, etc.... masculinity actually IS depressing but people who get that far still dont realize WHY

[@neru1584]

And everytime a man actually calls this out, I see like 500 other men saying "she won't fck u bro 😂" so the cycle repeats because they assume every guy who calls this out only wants female attention. At this point I've learned to tune people out

[@ariaaa_g]

@@princicatYes!! Spot on!! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@gnocchidokey]

@@princicat Except the ones who do. We call them "feminists"

[@VicesinMyHead]

"If it's not giving Pokémon, I'm not giving it the time of day." Words to live by.

[@Art-enjoyer_Fern]

Truly *the* most healing sentiment

[@jjacks50]

Gengar has snacks.

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

Show POKEMANS, not MAGA!

[@FlamesTheCyndaquil]

a mantra i can agree with

[@jerrypolverino6025]

I was going to buy a new Tesla this October. I was excited and saving my money for two years. Then I found out Musk was going to support Trump. There’s no way I will buy a Tesla now. In addition, I deleted Twitter when Musk took over.

[@Mmmmilo]

I just discovered you, and watching someone hate the people I hate with such eloquence is extremely cathartic. I wish I had so much poise in my disdain.

[@EMJAYCAD]

Me too . Im on my fifht video of him. Already subscribe

[@izzayy_]

to be fair, “so much poise in my disdain” is a very eloquent phrase, keep up the good work🙏

[@UndertheNeedle282]

😂😂 love this

[@shawnwilliam4653]

Absolutely

[@Mmmmilo]

@@izzayy_aw shucks, thank you!

[@rikkifishy]

If Twitter disappeared, I truly believe the fuckery of the internet would decrease by like 29%.

[@dorkchops]

they would just move somewhere sadly

[@rikkifishy]

@@dorkchops Let me dream lol.

[@yyby_]

lets b real it'd be 49%

[@mari98_]

@@dorkchopstrue but they wouldn’t own the center of the town square. It was easier to delegitimize the crazy when its was isolated to 4chan vs being front paged purposely by the richest man on earth

[@kurjaesitys]

No actually the horrible part is it would travel to other apps, twitter is necessary so these people stay here.

[@meaninglez100]

Oh, the "not interested" button is a placebo. It doesn't actually do anything

[@p1errette]

same in youtube btw, there's been a research on that a couple of years ago :p

[@erinw6120]

It does, but to see what it changes, you need to go to Settings, Privacy and Safety, Ads Preferences, then finally Interests. There you'll find a list of checkboxes of topics that Twitter has decided you're interested in via interacting with posts, following people, or your own posts. You may find some very odd things on there. Unchecking a box does reduce the de-selected amount of content the site shovels at you. A little.

[@boiyado6717]

​@@p1erretteI blocked a channel ten separate times before their posts stopped showing up.

[@caiden3396]

Worse than a placebo. Placebos still do things

[@user-rq6tw4zp4w]

​@@boiyado6717same! It's infuriating.

[@J3dotgg]

The ragebait by blue checkmarks is because they have a financial incentive to do so. Because interactions and impressions of their tweets are monetized. It's insanity.

[@Babybearcroche]

Twitter being banned here in a Brasil was a blessing in disguise

[@greenapple9477]

Not even in disguise.

[@deitay]

I hate that congress here in the U.S. tried to ban TikTok but X gets tons of our tax dollars

[@Biggiecheese20]

😢

[@cyerk]

I just know you guys feel so free , 🤗

[@afroahmed3989]

That mainstream media Kool aid is delicious i guess .

[@lillacSwing]

They banned twitter/x in Brazil and honestly, our life is better lol

[@lailaauto33]

Amém

[@oswildo.1132]

nunca fui tão feliz

[@Snowbell247]

Musk paid the fine to Brazil court and reverted the ban lol I wish he had some shame

[@sylviafrida819]

I came here to comment that. I hope it doesn't come back

[@v3nu5]

Única coisa boa que o elon musk fez foi livrar a gente daquele lugar 🎉

[@Parziphone]

Love how D'Angelo reached the same conclusion I did when I was 14: Twitter only works when you have a very niche fandom space and you stick with it clutching to it with nails and teeth to never veer in any way away from it because only the fandom delulu is worth venturing into Twitter for

[@moths.asleep]

Can confirm - a Popee the performer / chinchikurin fan

[@cherryblossom00000]

Can confirm that my fandom spaces are the only reason I’m still on twitter

[@sheashells]

Yeah when I had a Twitter, it was to follow one fandom and the show creators who did live tweets when new episodes aired. I miss that vibe.

[@mario166488]

Yea I pretty much just use it for Monster Hunter news. Even then, I'll sometimes accidently scroll through my homepage and give myself an aneurysm.

[@intensestare5027]

i was in the loki twitter fandom when i was 13, yes it was dedicated to that one marvel character and only him, and i had to leave because it lowkey made me manic. i didnt like the person i became when i logged on

[@galatea5455]

"Every-time I go on Twitter now-a-days I get this weird sinking feeling that every interaction is trying to push me in the direction of being pissed off at something." That is Conservatism in a nutshell; to be triggered by everything, be angry at everything, and to try to drag as many people down with them as possible.

[@emril4570]

Honestly the more I think about this, the more it makes sense. In all fairness, the left also has people propagating rage bait, but like Maybe I didn’t look in the right places but I don’t think I’ve EVER seen someone identifying as conservative online just have fun with something and show that sincerely nice fun-loving side of themselves If they were having fun, it’s usually at the expense of something else, like a movie flop or a dumb content creator, so still kind of a negative at the end of the day I’m not saying right-leaning people don’t have fun, but the part of conservatives online that is most vocal and easiest to find IS the one outraged by everything (case in point - Twitter LOL)

[@savannahhorton6379]

I recently wrote a paper on this, not only is it to push an agenda, but because of a psychological phenomenon called negativity bias, people are more likely to engage with media more and for a longer period of time if it is distressing or upsetting news. He just wants more money, so by hooking people even after expressing that you don’t want to, they’re attempting to grab your attention to make money. The reality is these people really do not care about politics, they just care about getting Rich.😪

[@kittygoesWOOF]

sounds like a good paper, ngl.

[@CatOnASegway]

I agree this is absolutely a thing, Facebook and pre Elon Twitter and others having done this for years but I'd disagree Elon Twitter is doing it since he's taken it so far off the right wing deep end it's ruined the reputation and profitablity of the site. Also if it was about the money he'd just quietly let it happen in the background of the site and not publically promote, engage and associate himself with those views.

[@directActionGaming-4u]

As usual the true culprit is capitalism. This blind pursuit of ever increasing profit will absolutely lead us to the end of humanity as we know it.

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

I spent more than an hour today scrolling and responding to transphobic comments on a Dr Mike short. I haven't done that kind of repeat scrolling & seething in a really long time. And I've also seen myself use KZbin comments more and more. I don't like my brain on capitalism 😭

[@OrgaNik_Music]

@@directActionGaming-4u And it doesn't even work, since Elon has completely tanked Twitter's revenue

[@crispy7499]

Got tired of seeing transphobia and discourse. Logged off. Life improved.

[@ANTIStraussian]

Why is there so much celebrity blood libel 😂

[@niraxlevi9930]

Don't forget misogyny and racism,better avoid that energy

[@LittleMissLounge]

​@@ANTIStraussian You start running out of ideas after 2,000 years, I guess. /s

[@AMVmushroom]

same. didnt matter how many times i said "not interested" or blocked the accounts. even went into my acc info and unticked "america politics" but the racism and transphobia never stopped. Deleted for my mental health and it feels so much better. Anyone reading this ! please take a break. deactivate that acc !

[@crispy7499]

@@AMVmushroom happens when the platform is run by a nazi, i guess

[@dontcomeinbutcomein]

Perfect timing, since it was JUST announced today that twitter is removing its block feature! Ridiculous app.

[@tiffanyh1274]

I just googled that, you’re right. I just saw that Elon is the most blocked person on twitter.

[@lyinarbaeldeth2456]

@@tiffanyh1274 I'm sure these two facts are completely unrelated :P

[@abigailr.9601]

The way I had to reread this like 10 times just to comprehend it because my brain refused to believe it was true 😭😭😭

[@Midnightlunar10]

So that way, even more people can get harassed! Thanks Elon! I’m totally happy you exist and haven’t been stranded in space!

[@Zvrra]

@@abigailr.9601 The way im rereading it NOW lol

[@Cryobolt]

I have had my Twitter account since 2012. That's 12 years to accumulate data for the algorithm. Gearing my interests towards gaming, game design, animation, automotive, LGBTGIA and keeping as much political garbage out of my feed. Yet as of the last year I am starting to see as you observed, right wing conspiracy theories that would normally not see the light of the public eye. Elon has definitely added some forced insertions on top of the algorithm to force his politics, something Zuckerberg got in trouble for in 2020 and he was far more subtle about it.

[@klausval]

twitter once asked me to do a captcha 20 TIMES IN A ROW. was sobbing

[@chirrupu]

ohhh my god same. it just randomly made me do that captcha 20 times and literally would not let me on the site if i didn't do it perfectly. i had to redo ALL 20 several times because certain prompts midway through were straight up impossible for me to do correctly forcing me to start all over. if i didn't have a bunch of art bookmarked on there, that would've been my giving up point

[@klausval]

@@chirrupu literally same 😭 the ones they give now are so ridiculous, I had to send them to my friends to try and figure out what it was actually asking me to do. I couldn't imagine trying to do them with any sort of colourblindless or visual impairment, I think that would be near impossible lmao I'm glad you got back into it eventually though. I am praying Elon gets exiled to the moon or something I am so tired

[@jaila4595]

I’m sorry but this is really funny😭. Twitter is literally out here torturing people

[@klausval]

@@jaila4595 they gonna start making us do human sacrifices soon 😞😞

[@caiden3396]

And I thought pandemic era Reddit was bad...

[@nadie7368]

fun fact: twitter doesnt let you say "cis" because it considers it a slur! so if you use the word, your tweet will be either hidden or deleted for "violating community guidelines", which happens less often for tweets with real slurs like the f word or the n word! yippee i wanna die :D

[@ashowofhands9813]

So much for Elon’s fight for “freedom of speech”

[@OrgaNik_Music]

@@ashowofhands9813 Oh, he just means free speech for him and his friends

[@otterror1071]

And even if someone comes up and say it is, on twitter, every single form of transphobic slur is not only allowed but encouraged, so it's just plain old censorship

[@YEs69th420]

It's the most blatant hypocrisy but right wingers eat it up anyway because they don't have any principles beyond "it's good when it happens to someone else"

[@michaels.3709]

This is ridiculous for the obvious reasons, but also... the Confederacy of Independent Systems would like a word with Elon as well.

[@SincerelyAuri]

The way I gasped when he turned the green screen off. My dumb ass thought that was just what his house looked like

[@Gestersmek]

What if it is what his house looks like, but he green screens it so he doesn't have his video equipment in his living space?

[@nem0neen]

same i thought he was just crazy good at interior design 😭 top 10 youtuber betrayals

[@artifalse]

@@Gestersmekyaksfilms does this i think

[@abigailr.9601]

Ikr! Like the big marble bank-looking background I assumed was green screen, but the intro and outro??? Nahhhh 🥲😭💀

[@cai_ryn]

@@abigailr.9601The intro and outro are real! Based on how he showed it in this video he films everything in the same set as the intro/outro but he faces a different direction during the green screen segments. The screen hides the satchel and painting that’s why you only see the side with the map and Dave

[@jkarnes45]

Well done young fella. We're all on the side of democracy and we need to come together to fight fascism regardless of age color gender or anything else.

[@thewolf9851]

How did you relate twitter to fascism? You sound insane

[@GirlWhoDoesStuffxx]

​@@thewolf9851 Far right political propaganda, conspiracy theories, heavy bigotry, and direct funding to a dictator wanna-be. That's all directly tied to fascism.

[@GpeanutDoggo]

@@thewolf9851did you even watch the video

[@thewolf9851]

@GpeanutDoggo Yes

[@GpeanutDoggo]

@@thewolf9851 Then you should realize that they aren’t insane because that’s what a huge majority of the video was about. Fascist individuals.

[@SharpBooger]

Its not just blatant transphobia, I see heavy racism too, no matter how many times I put "I dont like this" and reporting it is worthless because his freedom of speech also includes terrifying amounts of hate speech, misogyny, etc. And all youll get from the trust and safety is "no wrongdoing was found"

[@rice_frying_shrimp]

given that there *literally isn't a content moderation team at Twitter anymore* that doesn't surprise me in the least. what's somehow arguably worse is that other platforms like Instagram that get criticized far, far less also have this same problem even though they (allegedly) do check every post that's reported and even when it contains literally only slurs it's somehow passing review and found not to be against their ToS. At least I live in the EU so we have other methods to report hate speech but when you have somewhat of an idea that the user who posted it isn't from the EU themselves, that also goes out the window.

[@pissass.8675]

It's not worth giving elon or zuck the ad money you give em. Their explicit goal is to make you mad since it keeps your eyes on the screen. Shit is digital self harm

[@Veltrosstho]

Any sort of moderation infringes on free speech, the only way to combat this is to have the minimum amount of moderation to prevent people abusing their power. Twitter, reddit, youtube all have extensive moderation, and yet they're just as bad, if not outright worse than places such as 4chan. 😂

[@awkwardbish19]

But yet you can't say cisgender 🤦‍♀️

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

The antisemitism must be just relentless. I've been watching the Coffeezilla sphere of influence and the number of hateful comments on fucking SBF videos... like I'm just here to learn about fraud please stop with this medieval European mindset!!!

[@TofuRabbit]

As an artist (as in illustrator, drawing is my actual job), Twitter used to legitimately be a very nice and easy place to create circles with mutuals and even find work on, and it actually really sucks that elon decided to just fucking kill it to appease the brain worms festering inside his skull. Sure it was still bad in a lot of ways im sure but for us creators and artists it had a lot going for it. Now it's gonna keep plummeting until it dies and it honestly just hurts that one asshole ruined it for everyone.

[@venkatkimidi2954]

@@TofuRabbit are artists using any other platforms now?

[@alienaliart]

As a fellow artist I couldn't have expressed it better 💔 it's sad to watch it all go to shit

[@sakurayankishi9708]

@@venkatkimidi2954we have Cara, it's okay, kind of reminds me of artstation

[@xtuffcookiex]

Artist are the ONLY reason I made a Twitter years ago. I just couldn't stand the toxic stuff that would get pushed through so I deleted it. I love artist so much it's the reason I have an Insta and go to cons.

[@maria2337]

@@venkatkimidi2954I second this question, I haven’t used twitter since high school but instagram can sometimes be a time sucker. I wish there was a dedicated art platform where people could share artwork and THATS IT, so it doesn’t get ruined 🥲

[@Suibian04]

Hey D'Angelo, just wanted to let you know that Quotidien, a French television show, used an extract of your video on Katy Perry's album to show how much of an unanimous flop it was today. It was pretty fun ( and unexpected) seeing you on french TV but you looked great as always !

[@Jolgeable]

Poor Dave. Now he has a twitter account.

[@EdrickBluebeard]

Imagine being a teenage boy and getting a twitter, and immediately being shown Matt Walsh, Andrew Tate, Elon Musk, and porn. Arguably, the porn would probably be the healthiest.

[@Angeldust3005]

Lolol

[@NottyAries]

Unfortunately, I agree.

[@feltfrog]

@@EdrickBluebeard all of them are patriarchy tools lol

[@ocarstens6045]

Arguably, the porn is made super problematic because of the rest of the dystopian content soup 😅

[@talkingraccoon525]

only on tumblr can you get muppet joker smut or porn without elon musk

[@sserenity13]

The reporting system literally doesn’t exist anymore. You report an account or a post and the report just disappears into the void. Like someone could be sending d34th threats and nothing would happen. Instead, they gain a thousand followers and get tons of bot likes.

[@ey3z4ya]

Why are we censoring the word death tho

[@sserenity13]

@@ey3z4yabecause I have no idea if my comments can get reported on KZbin idk. You knew what it said so it’s fine lol.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

@@ey3z4ya because KZbin censors comments that include it. KZbin doesn’t censor comments that include targeted harassment of trans people tho. Strange that.

[@mossydel]

worse, you get a message back saying "After reviewing the available information, we want to let you know @(slur)KILLER911 hasn’t broken our safety policies"

[@youparejo]

​@@ey3z4ya loool i was wondering what this word meant lmao

[@Xavier_Diabolu]

elon twitter = monetized 4chan

[@windsurfer8824]

Yeah

[@mygoldenwitch]

That is an eerily accurate comparison.

[@arat3375]

it's barely even monetized with all the advertisers leaving

[@noctap0d]

At least 4chan isn't designed to look as corporate as possible. The combination of corpo aesthetics with far right politics is jarring to me.

[@playdoh658]

So like reddit

[@kerrithornton]

27:16 I totally agree with you - this should be a part of the literacy of social media. That it's actually our responsibility as consumers to become aware of how they work and how we interact with it and how it affects us. Most people are just mindlessly consuming it and have no idea how dangerous that is. But most people don't want that responsibility. They just expect these platforms to be neutral because when they launched they used to be.

[@THEMIMIK]

I forgot that there used to be a point where Twitter used to not be a cesspool of hate and terrible ideals

[@JackedThor-so]

Being LESS of a cesspool doesn't mean it wasn't still a cesspool

[@dollguts9801]

@ypp0pNO WAY LOL😭 what did you see that just made you do that immediate decision?

[@michaelkenner3289]

Was there though?

[@aprileatsguilty]

Truth is not hate speech.

[@LeftoverBeefcake]

At one point it was possible to curate your feed so that you mostly saw timely posts from people and topics you were truly interested in, but apparently those days are looooong gone :(

[@TasnimAhana-vw8ct]

The Brazilians are the lucky ones here. No more twitter. No more horrifying brainrot.

[@johnnyqd6861]

This makes me want to VPN into Brazil for all my internet needs

[@Vitoria-hb6lv]

As a brazilian: yes, we're doing so much better without X

[@dltn42]

Yes, only after X I realized how much this platform is Toxic, even more than I thought.

[@youforget1000thingsaday]

Y'all want a cookie? Lmfao. Who cares.

[@eryqeryq]

​@@youforget1000thingsadayYou, apparently

[@Momorsa]

since X been banned on brazil, people mass immigrated to bluesky and its kinda crazy like. algorithms are kinda like old twitter that wasn't so focused on publicity so, almost no bots, no scam ads, and its so easy to block harmful content and not let it spread...its been kinda...nice to use a social network again? feels like a breath of fresh air after twitter...the only thing that was missing was users, but since a lot of people from my country are there, it has been nice! also i love having a chronological timeline

[@ipohertroyanov464]

Chronological timeline? No way this is true. We do not have the technology

[@Lionesse-z41553]

I really like BlueSky. It's a nice platform, and my friends are starting to migrate there.

[@LyrinaeSings]

The interspersed "Yay pokemon! :D" in between all the maga slop is so funny. honestly healing. enjoy ur cute pokemon my dude

[@cybermenhera]

that one tweet that said the first thing they do in the morning is open Pinterest instead of Twitter fixed my life tbh

[@akaihanayume]

ayyyyy a sky player

[@tululips]

they're so real honestly the first thing pinterest gives me in the morning is cute crochet plushies and pink bow posts n i consider that a great way to start my morning

[@marogmartz]

Me, though I try to watch my yeam bc I could spend hours there lol

[@N0TMICAH]

pinterest is the best social media for this reason lmao

[@v0519]

I managed to fk up my Pinterest but otherwise yeah, the feed tends to be MUCH healthier😭

[@beeblejuicee]

the republican gays are giving "i never thought the leopards would eat MY face"

[@mumenRhyder]

"I'm one of the good ones" bs

[@SquidSquid7]

i read leopards like its written and was so confused lolll

[@calci2679]

They think that trying to get rid of trans people will keep themselves safe. And by the time they need help, we trans people will be too deep in the trenches to help the people who threw us down there.

[@p1errette]

​@@SquidSquid7 what is it supposed to mean then

[@p1errette]

in my language we say "bees against honey"

[@pyramldofbonez]

It’s turned into a 4 chan type platform, it’s not worth being one of the main social media apps anymore and should fade into obscurity

[@moepikd]

I'd honestly say certain boards on 4chan (stuff like /g/, /mu/, /a/, /c/, or any other hobby or interest focused board) are more bearable than Twitter, because generally on them you get content relevant to the topic of the board, I mean if I go on /g/ really quick because I have an interest in technology and the first thread I see is about someone having bad internet, and the next one being about mechanical keyboards, basically it's relevant to the topic, I mean literally in the rules it states racism is only allowed in /b/. Unlike in Twitter if you for example just wanna see cute anime art and not political stuff on 4chan just stick to /c/ or /cm/ (which have no NSFW material as they are blue boards), I just checked and yeah it's all just cute SFW anime art, I even enjoyed the /c/u/te thread as a lesbian. Then on Twitter even if you show you're not interested in politics and interested in another topic it'll still force feed you political content. Basically the short version is current Twitter is worse than 99% of boards on 4chan, and depending on the boards you use it is way more enjoyable to use 4chan.

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

Considering that people repost screenshots of 4chan posts on it, Elon might as well call it Xchan.

[@AluminumFusion22]

​@@moepikd/v/ is insufferable though. It's full of nothing but Wojaks, Soyjaks, thinly-veiled anti-Semitism, overt anti-Semitism, thinly-veiled racism, overt racism, gooners, idiots brainwashed by anti-woke grifters into being scared of any non-white characters in video games, and people stuck in the past who continuously bitch about how bad gaming is these days. It's a complete cesspool, even for 4chan. The three boards to never visit on 4chan, recommended by actual 4chan users, are /pol/, /b/, and /v/.

[@thewolf9851]

You should fade into obscurity

[@starsea3313]

That was likely Musk's intent.

[@MyoticTesseract]

as someone who had been terminally on twitter for years even before musk, it really put everything into perspective seeing a normal person try to make a new account on it right now maybe i should take steps to better my life

[@thewolf9851]

The guy making these videos is far from a normal person

[@avelynn5976]

@@thewolf9851 and you're far from employed 👍

[@thewolf9851]

@@avelynn5976 You couldn't be more wrong. Maybe you're just projecting. Living in your mom's basement, overweight, unemployed. Do those adjectives accurately describe you?

[@deerkaiser9983]

Please do man, the sheer amount of hatred on that site can seriously affect you and probably already has, getting out of it will improve your life

[@diseased_walrus7]

loved the tweet where Elon said "anyone who is promoting propaganda will be banned" lmfao

[@neighborlyalien3005]

it's only propaganda if he disagrees with what was said, :/ in his mind, his beliefs could NEVER be propaganda.

[@Mz_jazzy]

T-Pain said it best "Did you have a bad day, or did you have a bad 10 minutes that you talked about all day" That 10 minutes is Twitter 😑

[@shannacollins8371]

Beautiful quote.

[@andrewdevine3920]

That's actually quite profound

[@incognikk0]

For those saying he tainted the experiment by following/unfollowing Laura Loomer, I tried logging in my twitter for the first time in 10 years. Im basically an inactive user with no history of engaging with US politics (not even from the US) My For You tab still has Elon and Trump tweets. The fact that this is the first thing new users see in their feed which obviously baits engagement (therefore feeds the algorithm) is still alarmingly devious.

[@autopsyturvy]

i made myself a [ahem] Corn account like a year ago and before I populated it with Appropriately Themed content, all I was getting was exactly tweets like these. And even to this day, I get them, even though I follow mostly trans SWers who are obviously politically left. This site is a hellhole but at least the Home-Grown Corn is pretty fire

[@clementinecrochet]

Good news, Gengar actually is a prominent character in the first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game!

[@Ganymedia9]

Fun fact: they make you do several captchas because the first one is actually to tell you're human and then the rest are often to develop training data points for AI. That's why a bunch of them have things like "click which square has a bike/sign/etc."

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Exactly, we are training AI to recognize those things.

[@Eloraurora]

​@@SoManyRandomRamblings So they can develop a not-murdering-cyclists program for Tesla, then classify it as an optional extra... I think.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

@@Eloraurora you have more faith in them than I. Lol.

[@sushreeshashwata]

It’s not new and not just AI, this has been going on since long before generative AI is a thing, it’s to collect data for various other apps/websites to go thru big data and make sense of it. For authentication the question actually doesn’t matter and it just tracks your mouse movement and reaction time etc.

[@StormSought]

Sometimes it's not a bad thing, data recognition is used for good stuff as well, I remember liking this when it came out, but it does feel usury when Twitter does it. I don't mind feeding useful algorithms. Maki g garbage AI harder to detect is the last thing I want to do.

[@imalexlaven]

I got banned on there for saying Elon looks like 4skin.

[@crypticcryptid4702]

Get that printed on a trophy

[@StefanTaf]

Hahahah

[@TrashPossum420]

You're a hero

[@mimig7737]

He does😂

[@Cera_01]

You get your tweet removed if you type the word cisgender

[@svarthol768]

Nobody's life has ever gotten worse from leaving Twitter

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Mine did. I used it to find protests near me.

[@Marksman3434]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 I'm sure most of them can be found by other means outside of Xitter

[@fromeveryting29]

@@thewhitefalcon8539Yeah, that is actually valuable. Hope those communities move onto better platforms!

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

@@fromeveryting29 they didn't

[@marcen12]

And three weeks after this video, somehow the site has gotten worse.

[@X1Daring2]

The Worst part is even if you block the bad stuff more bad stuff pops up, Tumblr has better moderation then the bird app at this point smh

[@crocodyllul]

If anyone here had a Tumblr up to 2018, you know this is one the most brutal offenses a social network could suffer.

[@Bunnywitch_Elena]

sadly the owner of tumblr is someone who would definitely hang out with twitter and is enforcing really dumb rules on tumblr itself.

[@AfroGothixa]

@@Bunnywitch_Elenaespecially the transphobia bit

[@rowanp2774]

i deleted twitter two weeks ago after being an active twitter user for years and the second i deleted i have been free every since 🙏

[@Monday-Lope]

I'm very proud of you and I wish you the best, congratulations :)

[@vavva_]

Good for you!!

[@nuclearabomination]

Same! I deleted it about 2 months ago, and the only thing I miss about it is the few mutuals I had, but now I just have them on Instagram 😊

[@sb308]

I deleted my Twitter account a while ago and never regretted it

[@RackednStackeddd]

I've been off it for a year and my mental health has honestly been so good

[@dancersinger55555]

This was… genuinely alarming. Also, your commentary really reflected what people’s brains are doing as they scroll, and THAT was also alarming. Well done, honestly.

[@rebeccawilliams479]

Something that always makes me feel better is seeing people be creative. Doing art for an old show they loved as a kid, figuring out a new knitting pattern, or a cosplay, or doing a miniature of a home. I love seeing people take part in the creative process :)

[@nerdjournal]

Elon talked all that crap about how Twitter was biased for the left, so he came in and made it a far right message board.

[@xtuffcookiex]

The biggest red flag is when he let 45 back on it after all the lies & hate that has been spewed. There can be a balance of left & right but, 45 is so far right it's toxic to any community.

[@Urduhkhan]

but mah free speech!

[@KatyWithAWhyyy]

@@nerdjournal I mean it's almost funny if it wasn't so terrible. He was apparently just mad it wasn't biased the way he wanted it to be. 😑 I've been off Twitter for years and sounds like that's still the right decision lol.

[@dadbodenvy4247]

It was biased towards the right before Elon took over too. Most right wingers would have been banned under the old rules if the rules were being applied fairly. They let them off easy in order to not seem “biased”. Then Elon came in with his right wing victim complex and cranked the bias up even more.

[@caiden3396]

Must have meant left of far right.

[@CeaselessEnemy]

Being trans on Twitter is miserable and exhausting. It sucks, because I used to be able to use it, and the only thorn in my side was JK Rowling's declining brain, and all else was decently easy to avoid! Now it feels like I'm being flashbanged every millisecond if I try. Which sucks, because there are some cool artists there I haven't seen on other sites much.

[@GraceCleo]

is there a reason you dont leave? /gen

[@ranbummerz729]

Not OP, but they seem to be an artist. Platforms like Twitter are often a lifeline for anyone doing art/creative endeavors for a living

[@GraceCleo]

@@ranbummerz729 oh yeah, that makes sense. seeing art from my favorite artists and discovering new ones is the main reason im still on tumblr these days so i get it. i somehow didnt absorb the last statement in op's comment bc it would have really answered my question too 🤦‍♀ thank you

[@iamahiphopfan3759]

Yeah every time I use twitter I only ever bounce from artists account to artists account

[@Gabexyz3]

Is there a specific reason why artists do better on Twitter than other social media sites like tumblr or Instagram ect.?

[@NosManJr]

That an insane CAPTCHA for a site flooded with bots 😂 reminds me of the 4 years if schooling I had to do to change my Activision password

[@joshuabutera2734]

Deadass the first thing I thought

[@zamboozle3741]

my mental health immediately and sharply improved upon deleting my twitter account

[@PassiveAssassin]

Deleted as soon as Grimes's ex bought it. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@mumenRhyder]

Calling him grimes ex is hilarious

[@PassiveAssassin]

@mumenRhyder I stole that from HHBombberGuy, who stole it from a comment he read. Here's to hoping he doesn't call me out in a 4hr plagiarism video.

[@aiba6540]

He ruined that girls life, I’ve always hated him but what a menace.

[@patrycjaspiewak]

I will use it from now on, he deserves to be just grimes’s ex whatever his name is

[@caiden3396]

Grimes deserves better than to be associated with that toxic turd.

[@moustik31]

I was a* huge fan of twitter, which helped me go through bad times (and learn and grow) by allowing me to connect with other feminist and/or disabled people. I had to leave the plarform after Musk removed the moderation tools. It's just hell over there.

[@Sackofpotates]

I can recommend Tumblr, it's not perfect but at least there's no algorithm

[@TheGamer2001]

I hope you could retain friends you made along the way!

[@Enderception]

Do you see how many of those are trans posts? We're such a small fraction of the population but we're constantly on these people's minds. It's horror

[@deerkaiser9983]

Seriously... it's crazy how so many conservatives are far more worried about trans people than trans people themselves. I can't imagine how stressful it must be for a trans person to be on that site

[@scrumlass]

Elon Musk is doing the Bankrupt Twitter Speedrun and Jigglypuff is my favorite Pokemon

[@eli-cl4wo]

as a gay trans man, the transphobia displayed by a lot of gay men is unfortunately very real 😭😭

[@Verydeadbarbie]

I got called a slur for being non binary by a trans gay person on twitter 😂idk whats up on there

[@melodicaat]

@@Verydeadbarbie it's just a very toxic place that manipulates people to be mean as the video shows. don't pay any attention to it

[@adam9321]

Good cus yall literally just weaponize c.therapy and homophobla against them, yall are women trying to guilt trip gay men for not being into women, wheres the progress when people like you did that to gay men for eons. Even now you fo the whole ww tear strategy to antagonize an actual marginalized group of people.

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

Yeah but to be fair my trans uncle didn't have to deal with half of this current hate back in the 80s, when I was little. Which I find surprising. That a trans man was given more respect and treated with less hate back in the 80-90s than he has had to deal with since around 2015. I don't even know what happened.

[@llynxfyremusic]

​@jaymevosburgh3660 insane people fear mongering because we're (sort of) more respected now by general society and that's a threat ig

[@missalex2718]

For someone who is already chronically online but never had twitter, this is extremely enlighten and frightening

[@pinknails8261]

no fr 😭

[@georgemouse504]

Remember, censorship is bad, unless you're trying to say the word cisgender, that's a word Leon cannot allow on his platform

[@cakestealer5983]

I love being trans wooo I love having my life be questioned constantly I love how it makes me hate myself for not being normal I love being viewed as lesser I’m having SUCH A GOOD TIME

[@JonathanSicoli]

If the right gets triggered by you existing, that says more about them than it does you. You're strong, eff the haters.

[@deerkaiser9983]

Navigating this site as a trans person must be hell, I hope you know there are many supportive people around you who care ❤

[@expwnged]

i find it crazy how an hour after this video, elon announces that they will be removing the block button's primary functionality (not being able to see their posts) in favor for just.. being able to see them but not being able to interact with them...?? this guy dude i don't see this being long lived with the google play and app store requiring you to have a block button and how this could potentially get him in trouble, but the fact that he tried to do it TWICE is baffling to me

[@DeadKraken]

He knows people block him and hates it lol He also knows people block ads, and hates it. But Muskrat can announce all the crap he wants, if he wants the app to survive the winter, he knows he needs Google and Apple and the European users, so he can't get rid of functions that are considered part of the basic user's privacy.

[@nikonradish]

I JUST SAW THAT I gotta set time aside to follow as many ppl on Bluesky that are also on my Twitter hhhh I hate it here (the internet)

[@radiansaphir]

I have seen multiple people/places say that Elon is the most blocked person on Twitter, which is entirely believable, and I am 100% certain this is why he wants blocking removed and will not be convinced otherwise.

[@sharpeningtheaxe]

KZbin doesn’t let you block people anymore either and it’s still allowed. I had to turn off comments on all my videos because my stalker/abuser kept using it to contact me since it was the only place he couldn’t be blocked.

[@nomihabo9752]

​@@sharpeningtheaxe i think it's a bit different with youtube bc it's like owned by google now or something so ofc they're gonna make an exception for themselves, especially since it makes them more money regardless. We'll just have to wait and see if taking twitter off the app store is more of a profit loss for them than they'd like. I love being alive in this current corporate climate ❤😍

[@picklebrinemoonshine]

This is the most punctual I've ever been for college

[@lesbiangoddess290]

So real

[@anovemberstar]

Lol

[@Emersunny]

for this very real, accredited university, of course? of which we are all students?

[@kiricappuchin]

@@Emersunny Of course!!! Very proud to be studying dynamic duolinguistics!!!

[@Alex-cw3rz]

There isn't a far right pipeline it's thrown in your face, even when you have specifically said you don't want to see it

[@Eloraurora]

...doom funnel? Like the part of the Hoover dam where the water goes down the giant abyss.

[@iamahiphopfan3759]

It’s the end of the pipe that blasts you with water

[@Jordan-xg4pn]

Its a straight up portal

[@KaaneDragonShinobi]

Far right sinkhole

[@cymtk]

I told my parents i was bi and they said bye

[@CoraMaria]

As a 25 year old fanfic writer, dunking on teens for being "unskilled trash" is screaming insecure. Like that is (presumably) an Entire Adult saying that. "Oh I can instantly clock when a fanfic is written by a 17 year old!" Can you? Can you really? Do you check each time? If you read a fanfic that is actually good, do you check to ensure that they're not a teen, either? Seems like some heavy confirmation bias, mate. I was also at a fanfic meet at a con where a 16 year old read me her fanfiction and it was some really good stuff! But also whether or not a teen IS good at writing fanfiction is irrelevant. The only thing that's relevant is if they're having fun (and this is also true for fanfic writers of all ages) Personally, I am pro-teens-believing-they-are-the-gods-of-fanfiction. I wouldn't be the fanfic writer I am today without my teenage arrogance. Being delusional is our god-given right!

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

Being delusional is part of developing real talent 100% yes!! And lots of bad fanfic is written by very grown adults lol

[@iamroughtrees]

Thinking I was good at writing growing up made me write a lot more!! And that is what builds progress

[@perhaps1094]

It’s literally ragebait though which is the point of the video, the likelihood of them believing what they are writing is pretty low so it’s really not worth treating it as genuine. I know ppl irl who are somewhat elitist about art and if you read that tweet out to them they would automatically disagree with it because it’s worded like an insult designed to get you mad and get clicks.

[@Red-jl1qr]

I was not expecting an essay describing the beauty of kids writing fanfiction lmao

[@tealtalonflame4281]

Exactly!! Even if you get embarrased later, You still learn!

[@barbatos8854]

I deleted all my socials, it's toxic, especially the comments. Now i just watch specific youtubers i like and communicate with w a only. I feel so much better.

[@julietijerina8176]

this is the way

[@blutygar]

Not to be that person, put you'd still get random recommendations of terrible things on KZbin, and they still have a problem blocking content you don't want to see no matter how curated. Might as well quit anything with a social or comments all together.

[@therestofus3506]

@@blutygar I feel like you missed the part where they said "specific youtubers I like"

[@mumenRhyder]

​@@blutygarthe best thing about youtube is that there's a tab for only people you're subbed to. It's pretty easy to avoid the reccomended tab

[@barbatos8854]

@@mumenRhyder exactly. I don't click on randos videos only fun youtubers i like. Peace of mind ❤

[@hermi1-kenobi455]

first thing to do on twitter is to block elon. second thing is to delete twitter

[@camiart_casual]

I wish so hard I could delete that place... as an artist that gets a lot of work online I'm rooting so hard for Bluesky because I want OFF this ride 😭

[@weebyboi620]

One of the guys whos tweets you saw first was suspended for allegedly posting images from CSAM videos but Elon musk personally reinstated his account regardless. This is who elon musk thinks is worthy of having a platform

[@Howard-Hamlin-from-HHM]

It’s not “alleged” he literally did do that shit people literally saw it

[@Vizardog]

It's the Dom Lucre guy, so that people know.

[@shiannafoxx]

What's csam

[@shyniestar]

@@shiannafoxxchild s** abuse material

[@joshtrue6521]

​@@shiannafoxx PDF file content

[@MysteriousSignal]

"Then one day, I came-" - D'Angelo, 2024

[@chacharose9467]

I had a lil giggle at that

[@tortle3224]

0:20

[@slaminjaminotter7286]

“I came, I saw, I realized my happiness was not tied to Twitter”

[@Mike90317]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nmonye01]

The Internet is right wing by default until you curate your algorithm...a teenager is not going understand this and have a ton of hateful rhetoric to decipher/parse through.... nightmare

[@jayk9068]

Never thought about that, but to take it a step further, you see that in a variety of groups where education is lacking. But it being cool to hate it (on Twitter) is a little different than kids. Teenagers seem like they pick up on bs conspiracies more than avg ppl. In contrast, hatred of education/academia/expertise moreso defines Musk, Kennedy, maga, etc. IMO

[@cable6416]

Exactly, it has been this case since its initial design in 1970s. Few understand this! Only now its gotten far worse.

[@Blakbox92]

Left wing or liberal people generally don't have a ragebait and trolling industrial complex, they just post their opinion and sometimes it gets out there,. Right wing people will make sock puppet accounts, buy likes, and game the algorithm to push their views which often includes inflammatory, bigoted, or insane conspiratorial nonsense.

[@jasminejeanine2239]

Yep, welcome to the real reason the right complains about tech corps. They want them to prioritize their propaganda even more then they are currently. They don't want anyone to see anything from the Dems or anyone else if possible.

[@astraynaught9343]

My friends are too twitterpilled to leave it, but I literally CANNOT see a reason to go there. They're like "well everyone else is there??" babe we also HAVE A GROUP CHAT???

[@TsukechanKills]

Speak for yourselves when you say Twitter hasn’t contributed to your character. That site is so cartoonishly evil that it helped me realize that I was halfway through the Nazi pipeline early enough to turn back

[@VultureSkins]

Happy for you, and sorry that happened 😬

[@Sera-F1nn]

I'm sorry, you realised YOURSELF, AND turned back on your own ? That's like a one-in-a-million kind of situation, most people just olympic dive into it. Damn. Good for you.

[@Annimations]

Congrats on your escape genuinely

[@Bangin0utWest]

LMAO what was it that made you go oh... Ohhhh. Ohhh nooo😂😂

[@TsukechanKills]

@@Bangin0utWest can’t say, still guilty. but I got to that side from “shock”, “trolling” memes. The worst. I’ll say, pedophilia is not swag 420

[@jacksim5759]

and this was posted BEFORE TWITTER STARTED TO REMOVE BLOCKING

[@wuschelfloke7690]

Hot take: X/Twitter is just truth social for Elon Musk.

[@windsurfer8824]

True.

[@yankis.]

Not even a take, it's a fact

[@JohnnySplendid]

Truth Social probably has a stricter anti-CSAM policy

[@groovyllicious]

During the 2023 superbowl elon noticed his tweet had a lot less engagement than bidens so he made his employees come in at 2 am so they could create a system to boost his tweets

[@RuddFoxx]

I feel bad for Trump because he was trying to make a right wing alternative to Twitter/X then Elon could have worked with him but instead bought Twitter and now libs and cons are both equally miserable.

[@lizanya6433]

genuinely think he’s killing the app on purpose because of all the rightfully deserved slander he received on there.

[@seaweed_tea]

I read somewhere that social media deliberately shows you upsetting things because it encourages you to scroll more

[@JEEBUSxHIMSELF]

love that you did this during the moo deng craze. she really is a ray of sunshine of that hellscape

[@trashtoto]

I LOVE MOO DENG !!!

[@basslightyeah]

My girlfriend introduced me to Moo Deng and I'm obsessed. Thankfully there's plenty of good Moo Deng content on Instagram and TikTok too

[@247webgirl]

I know! I’m a little sad D’Angelo didn’t mention her!

[@Star14Light]

I’m sorry since I don’t use twitter or social media platforms to an extent, who is moo deng? 😭

[@trashtoto]

@@Star14Light baby pygmy hippo!! she is a deligjt

[@bondickle]

I hate David Cameron, but in 2009 he said "Too many tweets makes a twat." I loved that quote then and I love it now. The only quote of his Ill ever remember (and he apologised for it at the time, despite it being 100% right lol)

[@1969bobsmith]

No wonder so many advertisers left, because according to them, their ads appeared on pages they had no interest in associating with.... This confirms it. No matter how hard this BRAND NEW account tried to escape negative stuff and Elon's views, it couldn't. So, just like advertisers, this guy basically left, too.

[@beatrizpereira1463]

As a bisexual I can tell you that not existing is awesome

[@alexandraaddi]

21:44 that’s no regular baby hippo, that’s Moo Deng

[@newacespadestar]

Yesss moo deng🙂‍↕️

[@zandrasilver]

I thought this too ❤

[@PaolaFer18]

An icon of our generation

[@AlyssaCPA]

this is what ppl mean when they say they built their fyp brick by brick

[@Getwipedboiii]

21:30 "yeah but the face eating leopards, won't eat my fac-OMG THEY'RE EATING MY FACE"