Beefalo @ jayrodtheoldbod @midwest.social

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It's what his teeth look like 🤣

Somebody made the joke that the Barbie marketing team did their job so well that they ended up doing the marketing for a whole other movie on top of Barbie, and they were right.

Oppenheimer marketing was shit, too. Like oh by the way, new Christopher Nolan movie.

People just completely lost track of what "mildly infuriating" meant, maybe because there's no venue for r/IncandescentRage (who would want to mod that?).

It's like when the tiles in the floor are crooked, and it's making you angrier than it ought, lady, that's mildly infuriating. This? You need to sue this motherfucker, so the settlement pays for the hopeless surgery you're about to have, for fuck's sake. This is not mildly infuriating, you should be screaming and punching the walls.

They leave this lying around every once in a while, just so it's barely plausible when you see a convenient trailer like this in a movie. Some prop master left this here to tempt you, like the devil.

It has been many, many moons

They were off base, but not by enough.

$400,000 for the meme as an NFT and off into the sunset she went, young and free, a ghost in the machine, forever. She is a true legend.

Sittin there in the back of the class high as hell next to my talking dog

I appreciate that this community is here to just be weird about Catra.

The thing is that there are a ton of people who've built honest careers on Youtube, mostly by catering to an adult niche. There is a near zero chance that I will suddenly find out that Torque Test Channel have, like, dark problems with kids. These people don't have scandals. Maybe somebody takes an iffy ad dollar that's a conflict of interest or something. The end.

But those are things your dad watches, they get a solid 100k views per average per upload and we both know that number is nothing on YouTube.

No, if you want to see serious numbers on YouTube and keep your average views above 1 mil per upload, you need children. You need 12-year-old eyeballs, ones that aren't supposed to be watching you because you're for older kids, the forbidden fruit.

If you want tween eyeballs, you need a shrieking fucking weirdo. You need a grown man who will act like the sort of 12-year-old boy that your 12-year-old boy would act like if he had power and people couldn't tell him to calm the fuck down. They'll be glued to that fuckin guy. Views and views for days while they live their fantasy of a world where mom can't tell them no, and they can have stunning emotional fits about video games until they exhaust themselves.

Nothing else will do, is the problem. He can't really be faking it, either, that's just annoying, no, there's got to be something wrong with him that children love to watch.

And so, over and over and over again, it turns out that the exhausting, obnoxious man who you loved as a child is fucked up, for real, once the years wear on, and you finally become an adult yourself, but this kook has had far too long to stew in his weird power trip, probably isolated from adult company because fuck being that guy's entourage. He's got too much money, so he can make stuff happen. He's got no oversight. Even Jimmy Seville had to hide it from the help most of the time. This guy's in a house alone to do as he pleases.

It's a bad recipe, and it bakes shitty cakes.

Every once in a while the cube of fate rolls funny, and you get Jerma, who should be one of these guys but instead his audience appears to be grown transwomen and their friends, all of them deranged, poisoned by years on 4Chan and Tumblr, with Jerma at their mercy, so whenever that situation goes sideways we can probably put Yackety Sax over the footage and actually enjoy it. That trainwreck should be a real treat.

I shouldn't get these posts at all but alas, I have the internet, which is apparently just a neighborhood in Portland

memes

Another episode of Who Is That Shitty Looking Person with Millions of Views?

Sure wish they'd stop making episodes of this show, but I guess it is what it is. Perhaps God will answer my friend's prayer and Earth will know peace.

Also the trolley is how you get to work, so if you stop it you can't get to work and pay your rent so

I'm the estrogen lab I'm the estrogen lab! Oh I'm a lab that's made out of estrogen Estro Estro Estrogen Lab

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I don't know who missed the big memo and needs to hear this, but OF people make a lot of money.

You probably thought that, already, but it's likely you weren't thinking $25 million in six months.

We learned that from Amouranth the Twitch Streamer/OF star posting basically her OF paystubs on Twitter to prove some sort of point.

The thing is that's not even top 5. $350 mil in a year is not out of the question, $150 mil is on the table, most of the women pulling that down, you've heard of. Black Chyna, for example. I want to say Nicki Minaj. So Amouranth is an also-ran at $25 mil a few years back.

Let's assume that there's a long tail, like Twitch has, the incomes drop off steeply past the top 1% of earners. You can still expect that a lot of people you've never heard of are pulling in more money in a few months than you make in several years.

They're big girls, is all I'm saying, let them look after themselves, and make sure you handle them just like you'd handle a wealthy white man, don't be his free cheering section, or hers. Let them both defend themselves if they need it, and afford them none of your resources if you can.

If somebody scolds you about it, let that pass by, ignored. People who stump for OF creators are in that same zone as all those weird nerds that act like Elon Musk is a god. Mute them and move on.

Save any solidarity you have for yourself, your friends, the people around you, and let the OnlyFans people look after themselves. They are certainly not looking after you.

It would be nice if capitalism's reward mechanism wasn't so horrifically busted, but it is what it is, I guess. Take care of yourselves out there.

The upvote/downvote system by itself is really just a human powered sorting algorithm that uses consensus to move the most relevant comments up where they can be seen, and to hide unproductive comments at the bottom.

So if all you have is an upvote/downvote system, that's all it is. Note that it doesn't matter that much, with a simple up/down system, if you got a bunch of downvotes. Your comment got buried, but that's kind of the end of it.

Karma is a score attached to individual users that probably sounded like a good idea at the time, but it tallies whether you have more upvotes than downvotes, and probably some other mess under the hood. It was supposed to be a measure of how often a given user provides relevant and helpful feedback to others. In practice, it's a social credit score like the one being developed by the Chinese government.

Even worse, karma got used as a metric to aim for, and it's what you used to make sure that your accounts were marketable to buyers, who wanted lots of positive comment karma on accounts, so they could post where they liked once they bought them.

When Reddit was born it was even techy-er than it is, now. So there was a lot of discussion about programming, and programming problems, similar to what happens on Stack Overflow these days.

Imagine I've asked Reddit a programming question of some sort, and soon, some comments reply.

User A, first on the scene: Idunno, man this looks like a tough one (doesn't answer the question, not really relevant)

User B, who showed up later: Ah yes, that's a bitch [proceeds to answer the question in detail, very helpful to OP and everyone else].

So, as a user, even a spectator, you were supposed to upvote User B, and maybe downvote A. Upvoting B was more important than downvoting A, since the upvotes would bring B's answer up to the top, anyway, while A's answer would fall down without anyone downvoting them on purpose. You were supposed to be hesitant to downvote, because of this. The poor answer essentially downvotes itself, no need to dogpile on User A.

Without a karma system, that's the end of it. User A's poor answer has no bearing on their treatment anywhere, their performance is not recorded and shown to the public at all, and User B may develop a reputation as a helpful person by name alone, but there's no karma, there, either. The whole thing stayed within the context of that post. User B's helpful post floats to the very top of the thread on a wave of upvotes, the end.

With a karma system comes a new dimension.

User B, who provided the great answer, would begin to accumulate positive comment karma, and in theory this would help you to judge B's answers in the future, just like you check the reviews on an Amazon listing. Remember that B might be answering a question on which you were ignorant, so you depend on karma to see if this person gives good answers, usually, or if he's just troll noise.

Reddit was born in the era of people asking a computer question and getting, "oh, yeah, just delete system32" as an answer. For the record, that is a very important Windows system process you must never delete, so that's just troll shit, trying to fuck an ignorant person over for lulz.

Reddit was trying to thwart that with the karma system, they needed people to be able to ask questions and get good faith answers. If a user provided lots of troll answers and lies, that should mean lots of downvotes from other users, negative karma. People know not to trust this person's answers, at least not easily. If they have tons of positive karma, shit man, that might be The Woz answering you for all you knew, a good sign.

It was entirely up to you, the user, to be very high-minded about this. So, even if User Z said something that you didn't like, but it added important information to the conversation, you would still upvote that comment. That kinda sorta worked, but then the Great Digg Migration happened, and a flood of normies came on board.

Normies all used the downvote button for what it was obviously for, it's a fuck you go away I don't like you button. It was pretty naive to think it would be anything else, but the founders had high hopes.

Now you can start accumulating negative comment karma from saying or doing things other people don't like, it doesn't take much, and automated moderation systems will start doing things like blocking you from joining communities because you have too much negative comment karma. It is assumed that you would have better karma if you weren't a shitty person. However, it's easy to abuse. If a bunch of fashy people downvote the everloving shit out of somebody for saying something like "black lives matter" now the wrong damn person ended up with lots of negative comment karma.

The fash can also open lots of extra accounts and upvote the hell out of each other and themselves, so they have lots of positive comment karma while being literal practicing Nazis at the same time. It's pretty easy to game the karma system and not very useful anymore. In practice, your karma score just records how often you comment things that the Reddit hive mind agrees with. The highest karma points probably belong to bots.

It's problematic, to say the least.

So it's possible to ditch the karma system entirely while still using upvote/downvote, they're actually two separate things. Since we are no longer all that worried about a solution to programming questions, and since the idea of karma got corrupted and stepped on pretty bad, it would be nice to leave it the hell behind with Reddit, where it belongs.

That is what OP is arguing for. Perhaps on the Fediverse we can forge ahead with new approaches, and let this Reddit-like situation be a springboard to something better in the future, something more unique to Lemmy itself.

I hope DMX sues him for trademark infringement just for the fuck of it

X gonna take it from ya

the code he is cracked

Continuing to rebel against the site by using the hell out of the site and driving its numbers up, I see. Have fun with that.

I am curious about this IPO, because I want to see what a clownshow their cash flow statement is likely to be.