EinAston

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I'm no Psychic, but I am a Psycho!!

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19 🇬🇭 | Autistic little shit who plays fighting games(Primarily KOF but also One Piece Fighting Adventure...play One Piece Fighting Adventure!) Branches out to other fighting games depending on the time of year and what my current hyperfixation is at the moment. Other hobbies at times include certain FPS games like Splatoon and Paladins,reading Webtoons and watching peak fiction like Owl House and One Piece. I would include football but fuck British football fans lmfao
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hthrflwrs
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i think in thirty years or so we will look back on the invention of the quote tweet as the societal equivalent of the invention of chlorofluorocarbons

bruno
@bruno

The quote tweet is a case study in how a seemingly innocent design change can, when it's replicated at scale, have some absolutely brutal effects.

Unlike Tumblr reposts, quote tweets are structured with the reposter's text first, then the quoted tweet at the bottom. This inherently puts the quoter in a position of discursive privilege over the quotee – you are setting the framing of what the other person is saying, before your own audience gets a chance to read it.

This massively encourages dunking, because it makes dunking easy; with the rhetoric leg up granted by the format, almost anyone can compose a halfway successful attack. This is particularly useful for dishonest or sloppy arguments; it's so much easier to put words in someone's mouth when you get to speak before they do.

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fyscuit
@fyscuit

This makes a lot of sense and explains why I often felt I should QRT with just emojis and then putting my thoughts in the replies when trying to boost cool things. Plain QRTs feel like you're stealing whatever insight you got from the original

But when you think about it, QRT is just a natural evolution of the "tweet screenshot" meta that was already prevalent

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Video-Game-King
@Video-Game-King

It's important to clarify that quote retweets didn't come out of nowhere; they were Twitter's response to the screenshot tweet dunk, a technique the site's users had been using for a few years prior to quote retweets. And while you could argue screenshotting tweets emerged as a self-defense tactic to prevent bad actors from denying whatever they said or did, formally speaking the only real difference between this and a quote retweet is the former admits a degree of falsification the latter doesn't.

The toxicity was always there. All Twitter did was make it more convenient.

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diana-deerest
@diana-deerest

i feel another way tumblr reblogs and rechosts are less toxic is that 1) the character limit leads to long arguments being broken up into small individual posts that are easier to single out, take out of context, and argue against 2) it's impossible to repost-with-addition something without necessarily also reposting the entirety of the repost chain up to that point, making it even harder to decontextualize posts and also keeping the feeling of a dialogue rather than a single take-and-takedown

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