I've had a couple folks point me to Greydanus's apparent boil over at Twitter for some reason to do with blue checks or such. I'll be honest, I know virtually nothing about Twitter. I have no clue what this is about. I just know that like Greydanus, the Left has insisted we are on the brink of a catastrophe of biblical proportions because Elon Musk and Twitter, and Mr. Greydanus is accepting that narrative.
Until he announced his plans to buy Twitter, Musk was at worst a curiosity, at best a hero for electric cars and going green and all. But then he presented the possibility that upon buying Twitter, the Left would lose its comfortable monopoly across the tech corporate world of social media.
Note well, when conservatives complained that they were overwhelmingly targeted and banned and blocked on social media platforms, they were told to stop crying like babies. After all, it's just social media. That's not important. It's no big deal.
Once news broke that Musk was buying Twitter, however, it was like everything to the Left of center. Invoking its favorite tactic of a 'here today, gone yesterday' approach to truth, it declared democracy and perhaps the entire human race to be in jeopardy. Before we even knew what Musk would do, he was now discount Himmler. And of course, the donkey-thralls responded as donkeys always do when you whip them. They brayed like babies.
Now Musk has done this, but I'll be honest I have no what idea what this is. Below are a few screenshots of some of Greydanus's posts about the issue. I wish I knew more, then I could comment on the validity of his anger. But I can certainly notice trends when I see them.
My only comment is, “Humility much?”
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Greydanus will review Nefarious and, if so, how much he will hate it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that movie. There are many he has never reviewed as far as I know.
DeleteI'm not a Catholic, but I am militantly pro-life, so I get angry on behalf of my Catholic friends whenever "Deacon" Greydanus does the bidding of the left. And as funny as his misadventures can be, they're also tragic because they underscore how spineless he is. The libs will never accept him as one of their own, but that won't deter him from trying to sit at their table.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, notice how Greydanus' display name is SDG. This renders his retweet of the self-ascribed nickname tweet even more pathetic. Who the hell refers to themselves by their initials? Does he think he's FDR or JFK? Perhaps he's trying to channel Jean-Luc Godard or Yves Saint Laurent. Either way, it underscores just how much of a lame boomer he is. It also makes things a lot harder for the (very small) handful of people who might try to look him up on Twitter using his first and last name. I can't help but think that this move is intentional. Perhaps he's trying to draw some distance between himself (and his overwhelmingly liberal Twitter followers) and the more Catholic readership he's cultivated on Facebook.
And his plea for people to share and retweet good content is also hilarious. He's never created anything of the sort.
The sad part is that he was one of the 'good guys' back in the day. Even when Internet Catholics were sliding left, and he himself began flirting in that direction, he drew lines in the sand and wouldn't go where others were going. Seeing him all but throw those old standards out the window and embrace what anyone can see is wrong is all the worse because of that.
DeleteThe purpose of blue checkmarks pre-Musk was to show that you were part of the cool kids club and on the right side of history. Leftists always deny that this was the case, but their reactions to changes in the system always reveal the truth.
ReplyDeleteApparently Twitter is going back on this, but I'm not sure. Whatever happened, it sure caused a bunch of adults to act like children. I fear also that it was a certain 'cool kids club' thing, and I recall Greydanus last year posting something about not wasting time with little people on the Internet whose opinions shouldn't matter. As if he's not one of those little people. Celebrity has its dangers.
DeleteIn theory it was a "verification" checkmark. That is, that you were you said you were. To prevent me from doing something like making a Alec Baldwin account and making people think that I'm the actual actor.
DeleteBut if that were the case, it should have been easy to get once you prove you are who you are. Instead checkmarks overwhelmingly went to darlings on the left, even many rather minor accounts. People seeking the checkmark never did so because they were worried about being impersonated, but because they wanted "recognition."
It's only after Musk changed the system that they started complaining about impersonators, though surely a small fee would be worth that service for celebrities. And in their reactions they always end up talking about the "wrong" people getting checkmarks, or how it's not longer cool anymore, etc.
(Tom New Poster) I'm not on social media, but surely if a blue check offers an advantage, one would tolerate a modest fee; and if it offers no advantage, an adult would not be bothered.
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DeleteWell put. So many cried like babies over this, and I can't figure out why. If it was a paltry 8 dollars a month, and this usually indicated some big name person who wouldn't be broke by it, then why fuss? If it was the principle, then next time conservatives say the problem is with the principle of the thing, those who cried and whined should listen.
DeleteIn which the pretend deacon cites Jesus Christ to defend an abortion-supporting chimera like John Fetterman. (No offense to any chimeras who may be reading this.)
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/DecentFilms/status/1650195441969971200/
If you ever wanted to know more about the original twitter checkmark than you ever thought possible, EMP Lemon had a pretty decent documentary on it.
ReplyDeleteAnd once you understand some of that, I think some reactions to this latest development makes a bit more sense. (not much, just a tiny bit)
It seems to be a very "courtier" thing to complain about. But, by all means: lengthen those tassels.
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