Never believe the hype.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean… when this first happened…

  People paid into the GoFundMe because they thought it was so fucked that all he got was a shitty goodie bag.

  I usually see these stories as failures of the system (and to be clear, they are), but in this case, a large number of people saw something that was straight bullshit, and tried to fix that bullshit with kind donations.

  That second part, that’s the part that IS NOT a Boring Dystopia.

  In other words, this mainly fits because it’s been years since this happened and the way it was presented in a throwaway Xeet. Everyone who remembers the original story remembers that it went viral because it was fucked up that all he got was a shitty goodie bag despite having never missed a day in 27 years.

  People coming together to fight the boring dystopia isn’t boring or dystopian, personal opinion.

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  • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mostly agree with your sentiment, except dystopias have people fight against them all the time. Not as boring, but still dystopian.

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree with you. Well reasoned.

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  • XiELEd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not a lot of people are lucky to get funded unfortunately :(

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  community notes is the BEST thing that Twitter could have ever done

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which means Elon will find some way to render them useless soon

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He doesn’t need to render it useless, he just needs to delete community notes applied to his own tweets, which he does.

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    • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ooohh, he’s tryin’

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  • independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would argue it is one of the best features of any social media to date

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why I say that “technically correct” is the worst kind of correct.

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  • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wdym, it’s not even technically correct. It’s just wrong.

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    • black0ut@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He was gifted 400k, just not by BK. The post doesn’t say it was BK, even though it insinuates that. It’s technically correct, but it has a clearly deceitful intention.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The better way to have worded that post was to say, “A Burger King worker, who never missed a day of work in 27 years, was gifted $400k from a GoFundMe setup by his daughter.”

      But that would mean being intentional and using more words. Can’t have that when you want to be spicy and increasing your engagement with ambiguity.

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