Andréa, Canis Lanonbinary

@CERESUltra

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Words are my favorite stim toy

Andréa, Canis Lanonbinary @CERESUltra8/8/2023, 1:06 PM

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Johnnemann @johnnemann8/8/2023, 5:27 AM

It's going to be weird to look back on this era and realize how much we talked about tweets

I do think that Twitter was a very good platform for creating memetic formulations of ideas - "more women prison guards", "what if we monetized the rot", "nobody told me that when you make a game you need to make the whole thing", etc. I think in some ways it's the closest we've come towards a kind of Darmok reality? There's a few of those from other platforms but something about the pithiness of twitter made it good at spitting those out.

But anyway I think it will be weird for people looking back to see the ways this single platform embedded itself in our discourse, even beyond the "newsworthy".

Add your favorite twitter-simplified concepts in the comments

#twitter #language #memetics

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Kelly @kelly8/8/2023, 5:31 AM

corn cob and milkshake duck are pretty useful to my brain as shorthand (though, again, mostly only in metatextual social media contexts)

Johnnemann @johnnemann8/8/2023, 6:00 AM

Yes!! But still useful language bits. Amazing examples

why the lucky spliff @topghost8/8/2023, 5:38 AM

there’s soooo many of these but “due to my agonies” is one i’ve been thinking about a lot recently

why the lucky spliff @topghost8/8/2023, 5:39 AM

and obviously the dril canon is like its own entire category, “I will never log off” etc

curious quail @curiousquail8/8/2023, 5:45 AM

Oh so you hate waffles and milkshake duck live in my brain rent free, when the walls fell

Natalie @nex38/8/2023, 5:46 AM

learned recently that one of my tweets had wormed its way so deeply into @ZandraVandra's mind that it made it into her novel, which I am editing, despite her not remembering that I was the one who tweeted it

graham @graham8/8/2023, 6:00 AM

Real boss baby vibes
gently touching your friends hand bc you've spotted someone acting like an asshole & you want to talk about it later
Osama shouldve hooped instead of tryna kill ppl cause he tall as hell

nini @filenine8/8/2023, 6:29 AM

Where's that last one ("played hoops") from?

graham @graham8/8/2023, 6:34 AM

https://twitter.com/T_Rozzay3/status/64889433505284096 I got some of it wrong, so I'll edit

D @pinstripeowl8/8/2023, 1:53 PM

I've adopted the boss baby vibes format (guy who has only experienced x) so much.

@lentilstew8/8/2023, 6:40 AM

this is probably a bad example since it's not a singular transplantable expression, but Austin Walker's "You ever see a take so bad you immediately go to sleep?" really helped me notice how my brain was reacting to Online's many dreadful inputs

chaos gf @zip8/8/2023, 7:19 AM

i know it's a comic rather than a post but the "i am very intelligent" guy popping out of a well

Luke Beeman @LukeBeeman8/8/2023, 9:01 AM

“I’m going to get a good grade in therapy, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve”
limiting myself to one dril tweet here: “you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them’”
me sowing / me reaping

Johnnemann @johnnemann8/8/2023, 10:45 AM

Oh god yes, I use "normal to want and possible to achieve" constantly

stu @stu8/8/2023, 12:00 PM

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Johnnemann @johnnemann8/8/2023, 12:25 PM

Perfect example. Great shorthand for a number of situations but always calling back to the original

Andréa, Canis Lanonbinary @CERESUltra8/8/2023, 1:24 PM

There's too many dril tweets to choose from, but face god and walk backwards into hell comes to mind the most. Also "face-eating leopard party"

I know there's a bunch of other tweets or tumbler posts buried in my speech patterns but the problem is they are so far removed from their sources I can't remember what they are any more.

Brody @BrodyBr8/8/2023, 3:20 PM

Some I think about that really embedded into our language:

"Sealioning"
"Sliding into her DMs"
Turning a big dial that says [ ] and looking back at the audience for approval

Johnnemann @johnnemann8/8/2023, 3:56 PM

Good!!!

JP @vectorpoem8/8/2023, 4:27 PM

"oh, you know which [conservative beliefs i was censored for]."
whispering to my date: that's chappie
candles, help my family is dying etc (dril's contributions can fill a book)
let's see trump (or any sufficiently powerful person) wriggle out of this one

JP @vectorpoem8/8/2023, 4:30 PM

i think what twitter gave us was an ideal platform for the text equivalent of what we'd been doing for many years with images, eg "draw the rest of the fucking owl" to pick a random example. the character limit and general lack of context (other than "what was happening on twitter at the moment") narrowed the scope of what people could / wanted to post just enough to unlock a lot of creativity but keeping things wide open - important preconditions for a novelty factory to produce at above average.

nortti OH1CAU @nortti8/8/2023, 9:09 PM

dasharez0ne's "just walk away" image

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