Does anyone actually pay for Twitter Blue?

3 years ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530 to c/therightcantmeme

waigl 94 points 3 years ago

I'm sorry, is there actually anyone out there who takes the idea of tipping one's landlord seriously? I always thought this was just an absurdist running gag...

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mustbe3to20signs 39 points 3 years ago

It will have been (or was?) a running gag til someone took it seriously. Like birdsarentreal used to be a flatearthers parody.
No matter how absurd the thing one makes up, there will be idiots believing in it.

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MotoAsh -4 points 3 years ago

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Syd -11 points 3 years ago

Well they are literally taking birds and turning them into robotic drones now.

Edit: it's real, I'm clearly being silenced by the shadow government.

https://www.livescience.com/...

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echodot 1 point 3 years ago

So they are real then. Checkmate atheists

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Syd 1 point 3 years ago

For sure, and there's a clear cut campaign to silence me.

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crossover 75 points 3 years ago

Who the fuck tips their landlord anyway?

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LesDeuxBonsYeux 44 points 3 years ago

Some people when satire :

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SwingingTheLamp 42 points 3 years ago

Poe's Law strikes again. Based on the community, I'm to take it as a right-wing meme, but this feels like a parody of a right-wing meme, or at least a parody of something.

But assuming it's real, holy wow, that list of things that the meme-maker thinks people spend money on is the clearest, most-explicit result of right-wing projection I've seen in a long time.

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nBodyProblem 28 points 3 years ago

Shows how delusional Lemmy can be that this OBVIOUS troll post is being taken seriously. The “tipping landlords” bit is a running gag.

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TheLadyAugust 4 points 3 years ago

This isn't a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.

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nBodyProblem 5 points 3 years ago

True, but Lemmy tends to be VERY fundamentalist from a political standpoint.

I’m pretty liberal but the extent of it makes users gullible. If you hate another group enough it’s easy to believe almost anything about them.

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morrowind 4 points 3 years ago

What would you teach? There's no clear indicators of sarcasm here. You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know whether tipping landlords is expected and prior knowledge that this is a running joke apparently (I just found out from this thread). And poe's law applies. This isn't some political cartoon in a newspaper

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TheLadyAugust 7 points 3 years ago

I hear you, and I can only speak from my own cultural education, which I learned over time from exposure.

In this meme, I feel that "tipping landlords" is pretty apparent, given that landlords are not employees nor do they provide a service. I've never known anyone to give a tip to a landlord.

"Cuck Chair" should be another tip off as well, since this is a reference to another meme.

You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know

This is likely true of most memes though, where the culture to know, are memes themselves. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, and whatnot.

There are indeed already college and university courses to study memes, so if I were to seriously think about what to teach in a highschool I'd probably base the curriculum somewhat on that.

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EmpathicVagrant 2 points 2 years ago

Critical thinking is discouraged in schools, they want good cookie-cutter workers.

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Daxtron2 3 points 3 years ago

Idk looking at his Twitter page im not certain it's satire

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DragonTypeWyvern 1 point 3 years ago

The funny thing about Poe's Law is that it implies that the crazies can't tell satire from agreement as well.

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SwingingTheLamp 2 points 3 years ago

Remember all of the conservatives who loved The Colbert Report unironically?

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erin 28 points 3 years ago

Isn't this obvious satire? This isn't a right wing meme, it's making fun of right wing memes.

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Justas 20 points 3 years ago

I don't know how much cuck chairs cost, but if they are aware that they are expensive and I am not, it implies something about them.

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slurpeesoforion 2 points 3 years ago

I had no idea it was a thing until i saw this meme.

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Smoogs 14 points 3 years ago

Back the fuck up. ‘Tip’ landlords? I think you mean bribing.

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Godric 11 points 3 years ago

Swing and a miss, satire is dying :(

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echodot 8 points 3 years ago

I've had a few different landlords over my lifetime and some of them are being quite bad and others have been okay but even the bad ones never expected me to tip them. They just wanted the rent and didn't want to do maintenance. Which was bad, obviously, but at least they never pretended it was good.

I also think it's amusing that the right think that NFT is a thing that people other than them buy.

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Kusimulkku 8 points 3 years ago

This is bait

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Goldholz 8 points 3 years ago

"Tipping the landlord" its not like he already gets half my income!

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Viking_Hippie 6 points 3 years ago

Damn my inquisitive nature but I have to ask..wtf is a "cuck chair"??

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Assman 18 points 3 years ago

It's when you sit in a chair and make another chair watch

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Zorsith 4 points 3 years ago

Cuck Cuck Goose

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Viking_Hippie 3 points 3 years ago

Ooh, kinky! 😄

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funkless_eck 5 points 3 years ago

it's from this meme, circa 2019–22

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BrokenGlepnir 4 points 3 years ago

The dude who tweeted this apparently.

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livus 3 points 3 years ago

Pretty sure scammers pay for twitter blue.

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TigrisMorte 1 point 3 years ago

The Egolon's Nazi sycophants do. As well as the bots. But I believe there is a discount for bot accounts per thousand.

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banghida 0 points 3 years ago

I know a guy

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