psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square129fedilinkarrow-up1758arrow-down167
arrow-up1691arrow-down1external-link"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.compsychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square129fedilink
minus-squarewhatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down15·1 year agoSalon.com articles always sound like a 21 year old Redditor wrote them. “The grifters that make up the troll-industrial complex are not okay.” Who writes this lmao. Do they spin a wheel of buzzwords and just write a sentence with whatever comes up?
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minus-squarewhatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down14·1 year agoYeah I mean if a 4 year old talks to me I can usually decipher what they are trying to say.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down2·1 year agoAmanda Marcotte is the author, a reasonably distinguished and well known figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte
minus-squarewhatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down24·1 year agoGuess she just knows her audience is buzzword-craving 21 year old Redditors then.
minus-squarePringles@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down29·1 year agoIf you write for salon.com, you are not distinguished. It’s a basically a left wing tabloid and should not be misconstrued as a news website.
minus-squareyata@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoCould you elaborate exactly what you find problematic about that wording?`Those terms seems to be a pretty accurate description of the phenomenon.
minus-squarewhatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down10·1 year agoIt’s cringe and embarrassing to me. That’s all I’m saying.
minus-squarecurt@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI kind of like the “troll-industrial complex”, but agree on your over take on the writing. Gone are the days when writers could produce great alliterations like “nattering nabobs of negativity”.
Salon.com articles always sound like a 21 year old Redditor wrote them.
“The grifters that make up the troll-industrial complex are not okay.”
Who writes this lmao. Do they spin a wheel of buzzwords and just write a sentence with whatever comes up?
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Yeah I mean if a 4 year old talks to me I can usually decipher what they are trying to say.
Amanda Marcotte is the author, a reasonably distinguished and well known figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte
Guess she just knows her audience is buzzword-craving 21 year old Redditors then.
If you write for salon.com, you are not distinguished. It’s a basically a left wing tabloid and should not be misconstrued as a news website.
Could you elaborate exactly what you find problematic about that wording?`Those terms seems to be a pretty accurate description of the phenomenon.
It’s cringe and embarrassing to me. That’s all I’m saying.
I kind of like the “troll-industrial complex”, but agree on your over take on the writing. Gone are the days when writers could produce great alliterations like “nattering nabobs of negativity”.