I know this rings hallow and kinda cruel because how much the platform means to people, but god I am so happy Twitter is dying. If I had my way, all social media dies tomorrow and we go back to actually IMing/DMing people or using chat servers for socializing on the internet. Social media ruined us all.
Until I left Twitter in 2017, I did not realize how much one on one communication on the internet regressed since Twitter became the default way to talk about yourself and others. I literally had people act like it was rude to ask how they are because they already tweeted about it. “Why aren’t you reading my tweets?” That’s such a fucked attitude. I am talking to you as a person, I don’t want to read your fucking blog.
Yes, in order to talk to the handful of people who refuse to talk like a person, I should, nay, NEED to deal with hateful thoughts being promoted to “dunk on them”, a blacklist system that couldn’t filter out people doomposting no matter how much I tried, random people I don’t know judging every single word in every post so they can make bad faith arguments for clout, and corporations saying “bae”.
Fuck off, Twitter.
To all the folks who are sad at Twitter dying because it was your favorite way to communicate with people, I can guarantee that you are better without Twitter and you will be okay.
All this said though, god this sucks for artists, but it wasn’t like they weren’t trying to boot them for years now.
