@simonstalenhag it is nice and it should happen more often that people instead of bragging about credits they want ( imposter syndrome and blabla like that ) say, ok wathever, i am a lucky guy cause i had opportunities people didn't have.
If conditions were better we would have more great artists. Ok, not like you, you created a fantastic world, but more art is always better.
(although the provided link has the same text, in a long form article, with links)
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@simonstalenhag Honestly I think it's much simpler than that.
He absolutely hates it when people aren't sycophantic to him.
His ego drove him to buy twitter because he couldn't tolerate any of the rightfully-earned ridicule he was receiving, in some narcissistically misguided belief that he could somehow "do it better" than the existing leadership when it comes to what he believed to be harassment.
And now, here we are.
@simonstalenhag When you look at it from the perspective that apartheid brat literally has ABSOLUTELY NO ONE in ANY of the ventures he claims to've been the genius of, he is surrounded at the very top by sycophants that do whatever he tells them to do, and NO ONE stands up to him.
His ex-wife and now estranged child saying enough's enough drove him over the edge and his hissy fit that not everyone loves him is now affecting all of us.
@Ailantd @simonstalenhag And yet the very first thing he demanded Twitter's engineers do was to "fix" the verification system in order to "fix the harassment and spam problem" that Twitter had. His demand got monkeypawed.
Harassment is indeed real, there, but the nature of the problem is imagined solely by him and people like him, because people having the gall to stand up to them and say "No, you actually kinda suck." is harassment and bullying to them.
@dragonarchitect @simonstalenhag He said it was to combat bots, which doesn't make sense, and actually made it worse, as many people told him.
I think he realized what a bad idea buying twitter was, and he indeed tried to stop it, but he was forced to comply. Now he has a real cash problem and he needs to make twitter profitable as soon as possible, hence the layoffs, the verification paywall and more of this to come. As simple as that I think.
@Ailantd @simonstalenhag Pretty much, yeah.
Apartheid brat and people like him (like Tangerine Turnip) really don't need nor deserve such high level analysis of their actions and thought process.
They're too narcissistic to be deserving of such deep thought about them.
They're incompetent, and their actions can be succinctly analyzed through the lens of thinking selfishly.
@foervraengd @simonstalenhag I'll miss a lot from twitter's pre-algorithm days, but that was eight years ago.
Apart from the important things highlighted in the article, all I'll miss from current twitter is the friends I made during the decline and the random threads about abandoned Eastern European themeparks and different Georgian knife-holsters hidden under dresses.
Twitter deciding to chase Instagram was detrimental to so many people's health.
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