Twitter took Gene X Hwang’s username and only offered him “some merch.”
That’s an exremly shitty thing to do. I don’t know how anyone can still be behind this company…
If I owned it, I’d definitely be behind it.
@nottheengineer I don’t own it, and am still behind it.
@Anomandaris You know what sarcasm is?
C’mon bro, it’s 2023, if I have to tell you that sarcasm is difficult to determine through text then that’s your fault, not mine.
@Anomandaris No. Its your fault not mine. It’s apparent from the context I replied to. Think before you reply.
Context didn’t help you, I also presumed you supported X. Just use tone indicators to avoid any confusion. it’s two characters for “/s”. Little cringe todo initially but it helps ppl and avoids confusion.
Your sarcasm was not well done. Do better next time.
If you don’t put an /s at the end, SpongeBob case it, or stretch syllables in words it’s not sarcasm. Learn to Internet.
Unfortunately, no. If you were relying on it’s absurdity to make it look like sarcasm, you were unfortunately indistinguishable from a Musk fanboi
The ratio says otherwise.
While I agree, no one should be behind this shit company, it’s quite a standard thing to do.
Literally every social media platform has the ability to reset a users username so they can free it up. It happens all the time.
Are you famous enough? Cool, contact any company about taking over the username “Jake” and they’ll give you it. Doesn’t matter that the other dudes name is Jake. Doesn’t matter they had it first. Doesn’t matter that it isn’t a trademarked name.
Just look at what happened to Jake from state farm. They even took the man’s khakis.
It didn’t work for Beyoncé. She tried to take the brand, Blu Ivy off an Australian company so her daughter could have it. Australia said get fucked.
An American wedding planner also had the name, and America told Beyoncé to get fucked too.
You don’t have a legal right to demand it.
But the platform can just give it to you as they see fit.
It’s not really that shitty in context with Musk’s everyday doings. I’m honestly not surprised at all.
If this was the worst of him, I’d be able to handle it (even though it indeed is a shitty thing to do and devalues Twitter handles [which is imo actually a good thing]).
Musk’s everyday doings
Speaking of his everyday doings. Has anyone investigated all those underage illegal migrant children he has in his bathroom shower? Or was that just a rumor started on “the app formerly known as twitter”?
It is but that is who Musk is.
Unfortunately the expected move from the cesspool formerly knows as Twitter.
Yep, totally not surprising in the least. Imagine if you’d built up a whole following around one handle and poof, it’s just gone. I think Musk got threatened by how stupid Huffman was being with Reddit and decided that the only way to be more stupid was to relabel the already flailing company.
Not defending the thin-skinned rich kid but the tweeter formerly known as @X didn’t lose anything apart from the name. Anyone can change their @name on Twitter and keep the rest of the account intact. Twitter changed his @name so that they could change their @name. Nothing else changed on either account.
So you’re not trying to belittle the fact that this guy has spent time with his X brand for a long time and now Musk is just stealing it because he feels like it? I mean, for someone who’s not defending the rich, you sure do put up a valiant effort. If anything, I hope someone’s trademarked X before Musk so they can sue him into oblivion for it and give him a taste of his own asshole medicine.
There is this thing called context. And you forgot all about it.
No, the context to me is quite clear. You’re attempting to assauge critique via deflection. It’s like saying you shouldn’t be upset that someone took a shit in your house, because at least they had the good sense to leave afterwards instead of tracking it all over your carpet. I’m not buying it and nobody else is either. Give it up already.
I suspect this is what Eron Musk’s normal attitude towards life is like.
Too soon? xD
OK, but do they still respond with poop emojis?
What some people don’t realize it’s that those usernames besides from being unique are very valuable, at the point that when someone won’t sell it they get harassed until they do
Darknet Diaries did an interview with someone who was harassed for an Instagram handle and while the harassment for him was low stakes, it was high annoyance and high anxiety inducing.
Darknet Diaries: 97: The Pizza Problem
Episode webpage: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/97
I mean, it’s their app. Sure it’s shitty, but at the end of the day it’s just a username. IDK. A minor inconvenience at most.
Nobody is debating that it’s legal. They’re within their rights but it’s unethical and extremely worrying since Elon’s stated goal is to make X the everything app for communication, payments, and whatever else. The fact that he’s more than happy to abuse his power just because he can makes the prospect of X growing horrifying. It would be an app where they own you and you own nothing.
I just see as a sign it’s never gonna work. Not under Elon, not X. He’s a megalomaniac idiot…
And I don’t see how it’s “unethical” either. It’s annoying, rude, stupid, ridiculous, shitty, sure. But unethical? They didn’t promise anything, they even gave some compensation even though they didn’t need to, right? Ethics isn’t even objective so I just don’t think that’s remotely meaningful, what ethical boundary are they overstepping? “To forcibly change someone’s social media handle is unethical”?
IDK, just don’t use Twitter!! I guess I just don’t see this as a big issue because I think Twitter is dumb, I suppose if you use the app a lot… IDK.
I don’t use Twitter, but the reason I think this is a bigger deal is because of the stated intention to expand it’s scope. Taking your account now means you can’t use a shitty social media app, but it would be a huge disruption if he pulls of what he wants and shows he’ll do things against his users interests if he feels like it. I won’t touch anything he makes with a 10 foot poll.
Oh, boy, handle with few chars can be so expensive, let alone a single char. Musk is a stinky shit.
X…gonna give it to me.
