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#1961 dasmo

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Posted 31 December 2024 - 10:52 AM

I guess I picked a good time to leave twitter.
I would say Trump still has the lead. See buying Canada troll.

#1962 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 01 January 2025 - 03:56 AM

Speculation of a burner account

 

Many have speculated online, too, that Musk’s motive is rooted in claims that he is running a burner super-fan account.

 

https://x.com/AdrianDittmann

 

Internet sleuths have been suggesting that the Space X CEO is behind an account — operating under the name Adrian Dittmann — that heaps praise on him.

Musk has denied being Dittmann — and mocked people who claimed he’s operating the alt account.

 

Deepening the mystery, Dittmann appears to be a character who operates only on X — there is almost no evidence of a person with that name operating outside the social media platform.

 

Musk added fuel to the fire by retweeting a post from the Dittmann account on Tuesday that mentioned the Kekius Maximus saga.

 

“Imagine you’re a journalist writing about Elon on X and it goes: ‘Elon Musk, aka Kekius Maximus, on X…,'” the Dittmann post read.

 

 

 

https://nypost.com/2...campaign=nypost


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 January 2025 - 03:58 AM.


#1963 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 10 January 2025 - 09:49 PM

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https://fortune.com/...ine-signup-fee/


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 January 2025 - 09:50 PM.

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#1964 max.bravo

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 09:11 AM

Kek:

“Kek is the deification of the concept of primordial darkness in the ancient Egyptian Ogdoad cosmogony of Hermopolis.”

- https://en.m.wikiped...Kek_(mythology)

If you look at the image in that link, it’s a deity with a frog’s head. Pepe the Frog says “kek” when he laughs, or something like that? I don’t know the full meme history.

Kek, in other words, is the god of darkness, and generally bad things.

What is Musk really up to?


It’s a 4chan meme. In the 2016 election when Hilary called them a basket of deplorables, the alt-right 4chan/pol users came together to use ‘meme magic’ to push Trump into presidency. It might have been the thing that tipped the scales in his favor. Really, it was a thing to witness at the time.
Iirc Pepe the frog was an outgrowth from the Foul Bachelor Frog meme. Instead of lol they said kek. Once they realized kek was some kind of pagan deity they latched onto the idea to power their ‘meme magic’.
Someone should chronicle that time period in internet history because it was a fascinating time to be in the swamp of 4chan.

#1965 Mike K.

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 11:31 AM

Oh I think they knew what they were doing. Or at least the architect of that meme did.

Meme magic is an interesting phrase.

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#1966 Matt R.

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 12:13 PM

^ we used to just call it propaganda.

#1967 dasmo

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 12:21 PM

Propaganda is the umbrella term and has many delivery vehicles. Memes being but one but all having a magic ability to manipulate the masses.
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Posted 11 January 2025 - 12:33 PM

All this to say Elon is about 10 years late to the kek party.
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#1969 dasmo

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 01:05 PM

I’ve made a few viral memes. One anonymous, one not. The anonymous one crossed my path a few times. It’s strangely gratifying when you cast a spell and it works.
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#1970 max.bravo

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 01:48 PM

Now you have to share it dasmo..

#1971 dasmo

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Posted 11 January 2025 - 01:51 PM

Gotta be at a desktop. I’ll share the a anon one.
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#1972 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 January 2025 - 10:34 AM

As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, the District of North Vancouver deleted its account on the popular social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.

Officials shared that their decision is due to the website no longer aligning with its corporate values.

 

Moving forward, residents can still see updates on the district’s other platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc, or by going directly to the municipality’s website.

The post on X notifying its followers of the decision to delete the account drew some mixed reactions from residents, some agreeing with the decision to move away from X — owned by Elon Musk — while others questioned the impact it will have on civic engagement.

 

https://vancouver.ci...etes-x-account/


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 January 2025 - 10:35 AM.


#1973 Mike P.

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Posted 22 January 2025 - 11:18 AM

Yesterday I saw "The Guardian" posted they will no longer post on Twitter. They have about 10 million followers.

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#1974 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 January 2025 - 11:22 AM

Last years news, bro.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 January 2025 - 11:26 AM.

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#1975 Matt R.

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Posted 22 January 2025 - 11:24 AM

People are so funny about this stuff, “I hate this place I’m never coming back, see you tomorrow!”

#1976 Mike K.

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Posted 22 January 2025 - 11:31 AM

Zuckerberg’s Rogan interview was pretty good.

Essentially he apologized for the fact checking disaster.

One side of the political spectrum has lost a right it thought it had to create the rules of engagement, so now there will be drama as balance is restored.

Musk, I think, just showed that we are no longer bound to a moral compass dictated by some members of society. The Ten Commandments have been pretty good for 2,000 years and only in the last 25 we think they’re no longer apropos? Nah. We’re good. One side of the political spectrum doesn’t have the right to dictate what is and isn’t right.

And for the record, I think that was a dumb stunt he pulled. But I don’t drive a Tesla so it really has nothing to do with me.

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#1977 dasmo

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Posted 22 January 2025 - 11:51 AM

I like that Zuck started to look more like a human and then left the left. 



#1978 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 25 January 2025 - 05:28 AM

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#1979 Victoria Watcher

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