You do not, under any circumstances, gotta commend Elon.
Edit: Or I have missed the reference in your comment, it seems!
> issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
I tend to view Musk's actions as focused on achieving that outcome rather than destroying Twitter, and it's one aspect that's hard to replace even if we don't always like the outcome.
1. SpaceX.
2. Ending peravasive political censorship on Twitter, resulting in significant, positive (IMO) real-world political shifts.
He has made many bad and questionable things, but those two achievements make up for all the rest, from my perspective.
> “i am selling six beautfiul, extremely ill, white horses. they no longer recognize me as their father, and are the Burden of my life.”
It's an impressionist portrait of naivité, narcissism, incompetence, and irresponsibility.
Just a rather weird one.
Which is to say you did not understand it
I figure this one makes sense to people who understand it's making fun of a 1700s type of guy, perhaps "what if Thomas Jefferson was on Craigslist?"
It's a interesting case story of newer people joining, and not getting the underlying joke that made it so good in the first place... Much like how a couple people in the replies here don't get why dril is funny. Or what weird twitter is.
> “I mean, my name is already out there,” he said, acknowledging the fact that, after the doxxing, he had at separate points confirmed his name on both Twitter and Reddit. “It’s in my Wikipedia article. Maybe people need to grow up. Just accept that I’m not like Santa Claus. I’m not a magic elf who posts.”
Even if he's not Santa or a magic elf, there's still good reason why stories of them are passed down.
I've known about his name for years, but it still feels odd and almost wrong about being able to put a name to dril and part of me doesn't really want to acknowledge it (even if it's literally at the top of the page). Of course there's a human behind dril, but it was never JoeyBob's dril.
On top of that, when gimmick/silly Twitter accounts get big they either sell out to scammers or the person behind it comes forward and uses the joke account as a personal one — so for dril to still be dril even with internet wide personality is a statement in of itself, especially when they keep doing what they're great at.
dril is more of a cultural zeitgeist than a guy named Paul Dochney. Dochney is just the channel for how a good hunk of society feels about society and Twitter, and I feel like he also understands this intimately by reading how he talks in the interview.
They do touch on this in the interview when talking about why SomethingAwful originally became popular (a kneejerk reaction against the breathless optimism of the Internet). Feels like a less cynical and more sarcastic cultural phenomenon than Black Mirror/twilight zone, but born of the same vein
dril is not a "gimmick/silly Twitter account" though
Not liking something is not really a reason to call the author a "tryhard" though.
The final battle of Twitter is king Dril vs shitlord Elon. No know knows what the outcome will be. Elon is trying to promote Dril with artificial inflation, while Dril is trying to destroy Twitter, trolling every new feature and blunder and its inept CEO, and encouraging Block the Blue, to a huge audience. That's the real story here. Everyone is rooting for Dril and the permanent end of Twitter.
Including, if I read the situation right, Elon's Musk.
Obv funny at times, but a lot of it seems to rely on being alt/cool/surreal in some way that I don't connect with too well.
Not to say that's a negative thing, I'd prob say the same about stuff like Monty Python. I admire the creativity and the best of it is funny, but often the response to it seems a little about mutual recognition and belonging.
Just give me the funny.
Paul is 35. Eugene Mirman is 48. Mirman doesn't even look like an old 48.
