Ok yeah accidentally mistaking it for an abbreviation of wwg1wga makes sense actually
Comment on TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike
crowsby@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Update (9/11/23): A TikTok spokesperson told Media Matters that “WGA has been inadvertently blocked as part of the platforms’ protections against QAnon conspiracy theories.” Searches for “WGA” and related terms now appear to function normally.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
lud@lemm.ee 9 months ago
wwg1wga
Huh, what a terrible initialism.
comedy@kbin.social 9 months ago
Well that's good
MoogleMaestro@kbin.social 9 months ago
This is good to know and I'm glad to hear.
As an aside, do we have a system for OP to pin this comment to the top? This context is pretty important.
Sinthesis@lemmy.world 9 months ago
BULLSHIT. China doesn’t want their citizens witnessing workforce strikes; especially ones where the celebrities striking are on Chinese TVs and movie screens.
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 9 months ago
Do you legitimately think people in China see the same Tiktok that we do?
Marsupial@quokk.au 9 months ago
Chinese people aren’t on TikTok.
They’re on Douyin and sand boxed away from any of that Western democracy and freedom concepts.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 9 months ago
freedom concepts
Thats funny, There are no concepts of freedom in the US unless you are wealthy
Syrc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The spokesperson added that searches for “Writers Guild of America” and “Writers Guild of America Strike” were not impacted.
Ok, if that’s true I can believe that.
NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 9 months ago
For those fortunate enough to be out of the loop, one of the qanon catch phrases is “Where we go one we go all” which is some bastardized version of the three musketeers “all for one, one for all.” It’s often abbreviated as WWGOWGA, which you’ll see on bumper stickers to helpfully let you know the driver has completely lost touch of reality so you should give them plenty of space. I’ve never seen it shortened to WGA, but that is plausible.
SCB@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You left out the best part, which is like 90% of QAnon shit, they stole it from a movie. This is from the movie “White Squall.”
QAnon people are fucking crazy man. How does anyone fall for this shit?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Because we have a cultic milieu and it’s an extremely syncretic conspiracy theory. Never quite got past the satanic panic? Q is fighting the Satanists who made rent too damn high. Think aliens control the government? They’re working with the Satanists but they’re on the beat of ensuring your kids disagree with you after going to college. Aware that the rich are the enemy? Trump is secretly at war with the elites. Just a massive fucking bigot? Who do you think the elites are? No seriously you can copy and paste the group you hate in there, it could be anyone that isn’t a majority, they could be redheads for all Q cares.
Qanon has absorbed everything from the new world order (alien edition, but also the other ones too) to flat earth to satanic panic to NESARA to the fucking protocols of the elders of Zion and cultural Bolshevism (though they call it cultural Marxism but still blame Jews). These are all things that used to get you laughed out of a room if not beaten up but now there’s an audience who will “yes and” the most deluded bullshit you can imagine.
SCB@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah this is a great point. I’d seen all the data points there but didn’t really put together that’s it’s become this sort of meta-conspiracy that is almost infinitely malleable.
over_clox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s a big wall of text to say QAnon is now run by a 13 year old girl.
over_clox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not here to talk B/S…
lemmy.world/post/3453314
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
A lack of critical thinking skills.
TwoGems@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I dunno they need to be thrown in wards or something. It’s like many of our parents and entire families infected by the Qanon.
SCB@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What’s weird is even smart people buy into it. My last boss is an amazing, caring, brilliant woman. She’s a senior leader at a Fortune 100 company!
She got into Q via New Age hippie shit, which she got into after a bad divorce and “rediscovering” herself. Now she believes in vampires. It’s mind boggling.
fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Fetal alcohol syndrome.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They probably used some bad RegEx like
^.*WGA$because the QAnon people swap the “O” out for a “1” sometimes and the dev tasked with blocking QAnon shit was like, “Fuck it. I’m blocking it all.”