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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2730 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 27, 2024

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Every year, this guy who runs the Infinite Scroll Substack compiles a "Worst Tweet of the Year" bracket. He selects 64 of the most insane/offensive/preposterous tweets of the year, subdivides them into four categories and has people vote on which are the worst. The best 32 get through to the next round, and so on. Check it out, there's some gold in there.

What I found slightly disappointing was that, social desirability bias being what it is, whenever an offensive tweet was paired against an insane one, people tended to vote for the offensive one to signal that they disagreed with it, even if the insane one is clearly orders of magnitude more bonkers than the offensive one. Of course some dude saying that the age of consent should be 13 is gross and disgusting, but tweets expressing that sentiment are a dime a dozen, and pale in comparison to the woman who confidently asserted that it's impossible to sail across any ocean. Like, I don't even know how I'd even start going about trying to rebut that.

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Oh, hey, @KulakRevolt is there; congratulations! I'm sorry you lost to Blacks Support Slavery.

Of course some dude saying that the age of consent should be 13 is gross and disgusting, but tweets expressing that sentiment are a dime a dozen, and pale in comparison to the woman who confidently asserted that it's impossible to sail across any ocean.

I mean, yes, Ocean Gyers is objectively more insane, but you also have to look at the shape of the tweets, not just the substance. No No No Yes Yes Yes is hilarious; I would have voted for it, too.

EDIT: Don't Eat Eggs is literally The Breakfast Question.

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