Re:Kanye West is buying Parler
by paulpauper on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:20AM
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People keep saying he's sick or he is wrong, yet his popularity keeps growing. Same for net worth. His tweets are getting 3-5x the engagement compared to a year ago. Maybe it's all part of the act.
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People love this shit. We live in a fallen world.
His tweets _were_ getting engagement. They locked his account[1].
1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/10/09/tw...
Re:Kanye West is buying Parler
by sneaky_verily on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:37PM
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And now he is going to own a social media site so his account can't be locked.
I guess free speech is alive and well.
Re:Kanye West is buying Parler
by newguynewphone on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:26PM
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until cloudflare finds "threats to human lives" on parler and drops them
Looks like that strategy worked out great for the other person who did that. What was his name again and what was that awful platform?
>What was his name again and what was that awful platform?
it'd be great if his name really was that blanked from the public mind, but I don't think that's quite the case with that specific example, yet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53501482
Celebrity or not, his actions seem similar to the mentioned illness.
Does engagement mean he is truly popular or that people are tuning into the spectacle? I think it would be true for most celebrities sliding into mental decline that their more deranged tweets would get a lot more eyes on them.