Dear Zuck,
Since my life as a teenager, the advent of social media )and the internet entirely) has been this weird omnipresence.
Often giving me whiplash.
- AOL instant messenger is cool chat with your crush from high-school!
- meeting someone from the internets? Do you want to get murdered only murderers do that.
- You can’t post that to the internet ?!
- I can’t believe you haven’t posted that to the internet !
- Gross why are you talking about social media.
- Gross you don’t have social media.
- I’m above it I don’t take it seriously.
- You HAVE to take social media seriously.
- Omg she had that many fake friends what a loser no real friends.
- omg she only has that little friends online what a loser no real friends.
- Ew she met her boyfriend online.
- He met his wife on tinder isn’t that so weird.
- You sent her a nude photo of your what?!
- I paid rent from the money I made from only fans
The talk around social media, network effects, costs of switching, being locked in, lack of interoperability… fucking DMCA
Where do we go now?
When creeper Facebook created their back door for MySpace users to easily hop onto Facebook, the promise of this was that the friends and family we had all over the globe would still feel physically close to us. And they did for a while.
even throughout this time once uncle Chad and granny joined and Facebook did as Facebook does kept changing privacy settings so they weren’t immediately understandable to your every day users, and your granny was horrified to see those photos of you during your indie sleaze hipster era making out with Steve Aoki, things still felt like ok it’s just social media.
Until (just ) was removed.
Meta is the controlling antisocial narcissist you dated that was too old to be dating you but convinced you that you were so mature for your age.
One day you had all these friends and family and you had Facebook, and Instagram. Just as narcissists do they slowly separated you from your friends and your family and your community.
We all hated this. We did. Then we got distracted by other forms of engagement and social proof.
We kinda forgot about those friends and family remembers.
We engaged with new friends which admittedly was nice on a very surface level.
If you were like me you mainly posted to get new clients for your art and design work. And for years you made a living that way.
Until you ended up working for the sacklers.
Then you quit being per artist to billionaires telling your boss
“ you can’t buy cool. “
The mistake many of us outliers, early adopters, misfits, gifted creatives made was that we thought tech industry leaders at the time were similar weirdos. No these creeps where the kids who very obviously told their parents to fuck off, diagnosed with anti social personality disorder of some kind with the psychotic need for outside validation of predatory frat bros we avoided like the plague.
If we thought about them at all.
As time went on and we grew farther and farther apart from the people that had been there through the best times in our lives.
We were forced on social media sites disguised as professional platforms
Full of 89% phones fakes and excuse my lingo fucking bootlicking posers.
The CEO and rich bro worship on linkeldn was / in nauseating.
The social proof aspect of social media. Has always felt like empty compliments that person you know doesn’t like you makes.
When meta decided to give users the option to not see political content what they also did was suppress the reach of credible left leaning accounts.
When sycophants online praised zuckerburg for the “best rebrand ever”
What rebrand ? He took a Xanax before recording some talk and stopped having his kids give him haircuts. ?
He’s still A coward and a greedy ass kisser.
Zuckerberg owning a stake in the biggest asshole clothing company that is just a rip off of Barbra Krugers work (supreme) did nothing but had him wearing baggier t shirts? Who. The. fuck. cares.
The thing is meta has always been an asshole and they don’t normally make long winded stupid fucking videos about the unethical bullshit decisions they make about their enshittified platforms.
zucks bullshit announcement ending fact checking calling it too political? Then criticizing the EU and china?
Damn!!
Tangerine man had his hand so far up puppet zucks ass it was glaringly obvious.
If we have observed anything about tech CEOs is that they possess no strong opinions about anything. By design they aren’t allowed to. And. The argument as to if they ever had opinions beyond rapey sayings like “don’t ask permission ask forgiveness”
Is up for debate.
What zuck meant by removing fact checking and bringing back politics was that we would be subjected to massive amounts of disinformation.
Paid media advertisements and posts by the. GOP about bullshit.
And like I always say what big techs definitions of things are is not the same as their actual definitions.
No matter what musk or zuckerburg are pretending to think this week, freedom of speech is not
(unless you’re not a republicunt)
If you live outside the USA a lot of our voices are being suppressed. So if you can take notes and remember, that a lot of us have never voted for this.
A lot of us are suffering. We are bracing ourselves and scared. Forget the brain rot maga psychos. Remember those of us who are deeply mourning.
If I’m a business owner and I know that people absolutely fucking hate seeing my marketing and ads. Even if they don’t hate my products. They hate my marketing and ads maybe even more so if they like my products. I’m thinking you assholes need to rethink the entire field. Shoving shit no one wants down peoples throats isn’t a business model.
