I can't overemphasize how much I hate twitter and the infantile way everyone speaks on it. Some guy reviewing a movie does not constitute a "villain origin story"
I know people who talk like that in real life and it drives me up a wall. Everything has to be a snappy one-liner like they're in a bad Joss Whedon movie.
It's because of engagement. I'm sort of glad Elon Musk took over, but ever since he started paying blue checkmarks for engagement everyone had to try their damnest to get in on that pie. These snappy one-liners are the quickest way to get views and replies. Next to false accusations and engagement farming in other posts.
People trying to be the quippy cool kid and/or act condescending towards people they view as ideological enemies was an issue on Twitter long before Musk. Arguably, this irony-laden, artificially detached, everything filtered through a snappy one-liner style of commentary (“ooh, that’s not a good look,” “villain origin story,” “being an [x] is a bold choice,” etc.) is a core personality trait of the modern leftist, so in shaking the dominance of those people up a little, Musk may have, if anything, decreased the prevalence of that style of communication.
I can't overemphasize how much I hate twitter and the infantile way everyone speaks on it. Some guy reviewing a movie does not constitute a "villain origin story"
I know people who talk like that in real life and it drives me up a wall. Everything has to be a snappy one-liner like they're in a bad Joss Whedon movie.
It's because of engagement. I'm sort of glad Elon Musk took over, but ever since he started paying blue checkmarks for engagement everyone had to try their damnest to get in on that pie. These snappy one-liners are the quickest way to get views and replies. Next to false accusations and engagement farming in other posts.
People trying to be the quippy cool kid and/or act condescending towards people they view as ideological enemies was an issue on Twitter long before Musk. Arguably, this irony-laden, artificially detached, everything filtered through a snappy one-liner style of commentary (“ooh, that’s not a good look,” “villain origin story,” “being an [x] is a bold choice,” etc.) is a core personality trait of the modern leftist, so in shaking the dominance of those people up a little, Musk may have, if anything, decreased the prevalence of that style of communication.