Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8
My favorite part:
But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.
“it’s highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media,” Vaught said. “That’s how I communicate and learn my news about what’s going on. Nothing else compares.”
His only “minor protest” to X’s action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.
Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he’s interested in Musk’s electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn’t tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He’s holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he’s struggling to adjust to the rebranding.
Musk screws him over and yet he continues to use the service?
People are so stupid these days.
This is the new rightwing fan base. It’s cucks all the way down.
He almost seems to enjoy it. He probably refreshes the x page dozens of times a day.
Oh yeah, steal my username musk daddy.
the alt-right movement is like an abusive relationship, made up of a bunch of very insecure people constantly seeking approval from an abuser who doles it out with an equal amount of degradation, keeping them confused and isolated enough that they have no choice but to keep coming back because - after having driven everyone else away with their hateful rhetoric - the abusive alt-right is now their only source of “community” at all.
it’s a cult.
More thorough video explanation from The Alt-Right Playbook: Endnote 4: How the Alt-Right is Like an Abusive Relationship (live)
It’s just a username who cares
Apparently Xitter care enough to actually —steal— I mean take over the handle.
If “Xitter” is pronounced “shitter” then I can finally get behind the rebrand
You care, obviously. Did you comment on this story because you don’t care? You’re kinda sending us mixed signals.
I care about the emotional wellbeing of people who care so much about what their online username is