flashmedallion

On this subject, my personal definition for millennial is someone in the age bracket where they had to teach themselves how to use windows as a kid

I don’t think it’s in its final form.

It’s obvious that brands and influencers were offered the chance to be pre-verified and, while I haven’t seen direct evidence myself, the word is that they could get some kind of FB/insta promotional discounts by being there to post on day 0 with a witty canned line about how great it was to be on threads

So when the app opened to the masses, they don’t have to follow anybody or wait for their friends before it had “value”. They open it up and there are a bunch of brands and “personalites” making it looking like it’s already alive and the place to be

The other stuff will probably come later… although there’s the chance that they’re going after tiktoks model of “we know what you want”

Only if you used it in a very mainstream, surface level way

Sure, but it’s still remarkable and it does change the tenor of the overall site.

At one point a couple of years ago I peeked at /all and I’m gonna say 85% of the top posts were from subreddits that were basically themed variations of “hey look at this asshole”

That shit definitely filters into the culture, and you see it in comment threads all the time where sometimes idea of a worthwhile contribution is just tagging iamverysmart or whatever

The whole site just primed itself into getting annoyed, pissed off, or outraged about anything at the drop of a hat