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In reply to the discussion: These companies have suspended ads on Twitter........... [View all]GoneOffShore
(17,548 posts)46. Three words for you - Sunk Cost Fallacy. Here's a little story about someone with 80K followers
Jeph Jacques does a fun webcomic entitled Questionable Content (Which I highly recommend) And he has been on Twitter - Here's what he posted last night:
November 6, 2022 8:14pm
Gosh, how long has it been since I wrote an actual newspost? Feels like...fifty years...
Anyway! Here's how I've been doing lately.
I stopped posting all the time on twitter a couple months back, but over this weekend I did a bunch of satirical tweets impersonating Elon Musk and they went fairly viral and he got so mad he (personally, I like to think) deleted my account. Nothing of value was lost, a good time was had by all, etc etc. If you google around I'm sure you can find screenshots.
I find myself in the privileged position of being able to walk away from a social media account with 80,000+ followers (it had ballooned to over 100k before it was suspended, lol) with no significant penalties to my life or income (as far as I can tell). I should probably, like, promote my work on other social media, but honestly I'm pretty burned out on the whole concept. I'm lucky to be able to draw my comics and put them on this website and have enough of you folks reading to pay my bills and buy food for my dog (Ollie's doing good, btw), and that's good enough for me.
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and every advertiser, ad co, university, and pro sports team on RW radio should get shit for it
certainot
Nov 2022
#28
Porn is going to rule Twitter shortly. In TFG's and Elon's case VERY shortly. nt
Tommymac
Nov 2022
#4
"I'd of got away with it, too, if it wasn't for those darn meddling activists!"
Midnight Writer
Nov 2022
#6
The curtain has been pulled back to reveal who the mighty wizard actually is.
groundloop
Nov 2022
#7
Thanks. I never would have seen this if you hadn't shown me. Very interesting perspective.
Midnight Writer
Nov 2022
#61
It's cheering on the downfall of Eloon. And Twitter was a bad idea from the start.
GoneOffShore
Nov 2022
#29
Hardly - Twitter has been a place where a lie goes 10 times around the world while truth is putting
GoneOffShore
Nov 2022
#35
Three words for you - Sunk Cost Fallacy. Here's a little story about someone with 80K followers
GoneOffShore
Nov 2022
#46
"I Would Have Gotten Away With It, Too, If It Wasn't For Those Meddling Activists!" nt
smb
Nov 2022
#51
Dark Money has kept many a RW mouthpiece afloat and it may yet help support Twitter, If anything
Ford_Prefect
Nov 2022
#24
Them not buying ads reminds me of all the donors who 'cut off' the J6 denying politicians
Bucky
Nov 2022
#53
Good! Let it further become a cesspool of useless spittle. Don't participate. It's easy.
Evolve Dammit
Nov 2022
#55