Taylor LorenzJun 13, 2024

“Gen Z put Biden in office with our voices and with our platforms,” said Hassan Khadair, a content creator in Birmingham, Ala., with 6.3M followers on TikTok and 2.8M subscribers on YouTube.

This time around, Khadair said, “He has to earn that vote. We’re not just going to give it to him because we don’t want Trump to win. We did that once. We’re not doing it twice.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/

Gen Z influencers who supported Biden in 2020 turn against him

The Gaza war, lack of progress on climate change and a potential TikTok ban are spawning anti-Biden content — even among former supporters.

The Washington Post
Show threadPaul Ramsey 🗳️
@taylorlorenz I'm old enough to remember (and to have flirted with) the youthful nihilism that gave us GWB over Gore in 2000. I bet it felt good to vote Nader and stick it to the Man, but the counterfactual world in which Pres. Gore was responding to 9/11, starting to grapple with climate a generation earlier, appointing 2 supreme court justices, that's a world I wish I got to live in.
Jun 13, 2024 at 7:06pmWeb
Show threadDarwin WoodkaJun 13, 2024

@pwramsey @taylorlorenz

Gore would not have been responding to 9/11 because he would've already put in place the airport security measures he had recommended so 9/11 would never have happened.

Show threadPaul Ramsey 🗳️Jun 13, 2024
@darwinwoodka Now that's the kind of hard core Gore-topia I dream about nightly.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaJun 13, 2024
@pwramsey I mean the Bush admin was fucking WARNED and did absolutely nothing. Asinine.
Show threadjmjmJun 13, 2024

@darwinwoodka @pwramsey

"Uh. Uhm. Look! Weapons of mass destruction!"

Show threadPaul Ramsey 🗳️Jun 13, 2024
@jmjm @darwinwoodka
Show threadKeepingMySanityJun 16, 2024
@pwramsey @taylorlorenz I have this thought too often what if Gore had won…