Just over four years ago, an insurrectionist mob found each other online, descended on Washington, stormed the Capitol and threatened the vice-president with a noose. But that was the good old days. We’re living in a different reality now. One in which the billionaires have been unchained.
A disturbing thing about the UK riots to me is that it seems that, between the crypto scams and the porn bots that are mixed together with Musk’s incoherent ramblings on Twitter, there is still real humans in between the bullshit.
I have a Twitter account that’s been dormant for 16 years or so (and never really active at all). I signed in to it today for the first time in a few months - the last time it was just to delete what was left of personal information and change my user name to something offensive to fascists.
Anyway, the content on my feed was:
- Musk tweets about Kamala losing ground
- A bunch of tweets with the same optical illusion, “can you read this number”. One had a picture of a panda. Three of them were from Musk parody accounts using his profile picture, promising a million dollars or whatever to whoever could see it.
- X bitching about Brazil. Musk bitching about Brazil.
- Porn. So much porn. Hardcore porn, amateur porn, only fans promotions or what looked like it. Generally not marked NSFW, just people being pounded directly in the feed.
- Barack Obama for some reason
- A video of a young woman farting
- Video of Trump and a black woman who didn’t look like anyone in particular AI’d into a sunset together
- A bunch of bitcoin spam
- One guy plotting up his master plan for how people could go about to leave Twitter, despite it being so irreplaceable and all. Obviously an ageing white man who considers himself some sort of public intellectual.
Why are there still people left in this mess? Do they not realize there is porn available elsewhere?