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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They just went from we love you guys to we don’t even give a fuck bend over boy in like 6 months.

Twitter has also shifted into a dystopian QQ wannabe.

Meta has been a dumpster fire for a decade now.

Tik Tok. heavy sigh

This kinda seems like end of times.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

if this is your version of the end of times, I suggest you take a look out your window at the burning hellscape of western north america and other locations around the globe. I also hope you're not too attached to birds or polar bears.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My world ends whenever someone doesn't understand hyperbole

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I become death, destroyer of literary device

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You became Death? How did you manage that?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

By taking things literally, apparently

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This makes me want to just set myself on fire!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

birds or polar bears

Phew! Luckily I just like penguins...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have bad news. Penguins are a hybrid of bird and polar bear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even the name Penguin is a hybrid of polar and penguin.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's the end of the era of social media, I'm plenty ok with that. Shit's been cancer for almost a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And may it usher in the era of antisocial media. The era where we all stop trying to impress each other, monetize each other, and just buy a thing and have it do the thing we bought it for, and not be bothered. Long may it reign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol that's more like the end of American consumerism, and while I wholeheartedly agree, that'll take a generation or two at least to decouple from American society. That shit's been going strong here for over 100 years.