Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The Internet's Augean Stables

It's a herculean task, but it looks like Twitter is finally banning the most obnoxious QAnon accounts. The platform, used by individuals who wouldn't be able to access the fever swamps of 8chan/8kun, has been one of the major vectors of QAnon lunacy. Well, the day of reckoning for the trolls, grifters, and cultists is coming soon, but not soon enough:



The responses to the upcoming ban are nothing short of hilarious, such as this imprecatory prayer against a social media platform:



Sorry, lady, Parler is just not where it's at. This is basically a prayer to make 'fetch' happen:





The bulk of the comments from the 'anons' are claims that the Techbros of Silicon Valley, prominent Democrats, and celebrities are running scared, and are trying to silence the QAnon movement in order to save their skins, but the simple fact of the matter is that the swarms that the conspiracy theory pushers are sending to harass verified accounts have made the platform untenable for people with genuine followings- Tom Hanks is more valuable to Twitter than PepeCucksSoyBoys1488.

2 comments:

Anathema Device said...

I suspect even I'm more valuable to Twitter than Dr Shay-got-myPhD-out-of-a-cereal-packet.

Good riddance to the lot of them. They're tiresome and ugly-minded

Anonymous said...

I keep hearing people say they believe things because they "researched it" on the internet. This makes them a true seeker of knowledge... and here's a bit of wisdom about being a seker:

"Hello Seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age because there's a seeker born every minute.
-- Firesign Theatre