hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what’s happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we’ll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don’t know that we’ll need to

  • Sooperstition@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Huffman / spez is trying to follow the same outrage farming playbook that countless other rich guys like Trump and Musk have followed.

    1. Gain money and/or control over something prominent that more or less works
    2. Identify targets that you want to hurt or screw over
    3. Make big changes that damage the thing you control with no time for your targets to adjust
    4. When your targets complain or protest, double down and don’t apologize or change course
    5. Cultivate a critical mass of smoothbrained useful idiots that enjoy the way you stick to your guns and hurt others
    6. ???
    7. Profit. Literally. You’ll have a smaller base, but they’re loyal and you can make money off of them.

    The question is whether spez will get to step 5. He’s already gotten to step 4.

    • cykablyatbot@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ironically I think most of the Twitter outrage is just on Reddit. Most other people seem to be carrying on like usual, albeit with a few hiccups. Although I don’t have a Twitter account so maybe my vantage point isn’t the best.