Trans woman, gamer, sci-fi/fantasy writer, catfox. Co-founder of ZeticTech Games.
God forbid you take off the kid gloves when the world is being overrun by right wing fascists and super-rich techbros who all want us all trapped in a goddamn Torment Nexus, and people are whining about how much less money a band would make if they didn’t advertise in the Reichstag.
But expecting it to be easy and fast is a lot.
I don’t expect that. I just expect a band that got rich making anti-establishment, anti-fascist music to eat shit when they turn out to be hypocrites.
It’s not that I care what people on that platform think. It’s that I care what shows up in search engines and whether my brand is diluted by people other than me.
So get an actually original brand name and sue people who fuck with you.
Headlines don’t get unprinted. If Muse quit Facebook or Instagram, especially after already having a presence there, it would be trivial for someone to swipe their brand identity and start posting horrible shit to generate headlines.
And it would be equally trivial for anyone to communicate to the world that they do not use facebook or insta, and that if anyone shows up there under the brand name they’re a fake. It’s not a parking lot. They’re not in your space. If they impersonate you that’s, again, something you could take them to court over. At no point are you required to support a pro-fascist platform by showing up to make sure nobody pretends to be you in a place nobody who cares about you should ever go. Holy shit, how is this hard to grasp.
I squat my name on Twitter because I don’t want it taken. I don’t use the platform except to log in periodically to keep it active.
Sounds reasonable if you give a shit about what people who still use Xitter think. Doesn’t sound anything like what Muse and artists like them do though.
Does that make me greedy?
No, but what you describe doesn’t generalize to the real situation we’re talking about here.
Yeah, it’s because I stand up for what I believe in no matter whether money is involved. You could learn a thing from my example and stop making excuses for rich people who support fascists.
You say “hard” like it’s a thing they are in some way bein restrained from doing. I mean, by anything other than their own greed.
Oh, I know this one! It’s pretending to be an idiot on purpose! You know, there’s a great website for people like you. I think it’s called fakebunch, falsebank, something like that.
Have you considered not making excuses for rich people who support fascists?
That’s strike three bud. Byebye.
Another wall of text excusing bad behavior. Hey yo I am not gonna read entire essays about this shit in a comments thread. Pare it down a bit.
tl;dr fascist bootlicker apologia
They had a choice. They chose to advertise themselves on the “Grandma’s Racist Rants And Old White Guys With Sunglasses Who Hate Poor People” platform. Color me shocked that it’s turning out to have been a bad choice.
Get in bed with psychos to make more money, wake up in bed next to a psycho in the morning. I have little sympathy for those who find themselves in this position.
Jesus christ it’s Jason burn
Ugh, how rude! stares at screen for an hour
There were a lot of bots, but my primary reason for leaving was that I got a sitewide permaban for telling someone the ideology they described was in fact a fascist one. I tried to come back on another account not associated in any way with the original to play nice, but through means beyond my understanding they made the association anyway and banned the new account before I could make a single comment.
I built a homepage but all the communities I added to it get updates so infrequently I wound up defaulting to All just to have something to read more than once per day.
In 4d hyperspace it is flat. That’s how gravity works. Orbit is a straight line ;)
One thing I disliked about Spore was that, between the original demo video and the actual game, the whole thing got made over into goofy cartoonish Sims-looking art style. The creator of this successor would do well to avoid making the same mistake. If we wanna make more shitty meme monsters we can just go play Spore again. Give us something Spore didn’t!
One too many jokes about murdering his wife.