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What was Nimble America anyway, and why the outrage? The Daily Beast article isn't much help, talking about Pepe the Frog and "shitposting", with the banner pi

What was Nimble America anyway, and why the outrage? The Daily Beast article isn't much help, talking about Pepe the Frog and "shitposting", with the banner picture, presumably the most egregious example they could publish, being Hillary's face with the caption "Too Big to Jail". Partisan, sure, but well within the realm of normal politics these days.

makomk 10y ago
Some political campaigning group that intended to take online memes and run them as actual political billboards. The outrage was because it was pro-Trump.
- oh_sigh 10y ago
  There was also outrage within /r/The_Donald as well, because it sounded like a scam and people suspected one of the mods of trying to do a money grab.
- justin66 10y ago
  > The outrage was because it was pro-Trump. Or because someone managed to find a way to make American political dialogue even dumber.
edaemon 10y ago
As far as I understood it, it was a non-profit that Luckey funded to help promote Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It was seemingly going to do so through memes, though it never recognizably progressed beyond its initial promotion. It was derided from both sides; it was first posted for a sort of crowdfunding campaign to /r/The_Donald where it was lambasted as "astroturfing" and a corporate attempt to profit off of their community. The VR and tech community at large (which tends to lean left and anti-Trump) didn't think much of it until it was revealed that Luckey was providing the funding for it, at which point a great deal of his already waning community support dropped out from under him.
generic_user 10y ago
The internet outrage professionals need there daily quota of clicks and its a slow news day.
oh_sigh 10y ago
Shitposting in real life. Essentially taking comments you might find on /r/The_Donald and posting them on real life billboards.
- randyrand 10y ago
  What is a shitpost? I think I can get the idea. But could you provide an example from him?
  - lugg 10y ago
    It's just a term referring to a shitty post.
    - strictnein 10y ago
      More "worthless" than "shitty". Some people call posting humorous nonsense on Facebook or Twitter as "shitposting" as well. Doesn't add anything, but can be amusing in small doses.
  - oh_sigh 10y ago
    A shitpost is hard to classify, but it is usually an off-topic post intended to derail, hijack, circlejerk, or otherwise spam a conversation. I don't have any examples of Palmer shitposting, because his scheme never really got off the ground. A generic example of a shitpost would be if say, someone posted in this thread this image: http://i.imgur.com/QoZHVLs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QoZHVLs.jpg and demanded that we only post spiderman memes, instead of talking about the intended topic.
  - atrendyguy 10y ago
    All of the examples you've been given are hilariously wrong. 'Shitposting' is a play on the idea that people with non-pc views are 'shitlords.' It grew out of groups like "Shit Reddit Says" and "Shit 4chan Says" that meant to police language on those sites. tl;dr A "shitpost" is a post that's not politically correct.
    - 10y ago
puranjay 10y ago
Let's remember that this is a 24 year old guy worth half a billion dollars. Young and immature leads to expected behavior. Young, immature AND rich leads to this. I know people expect more from their corporate leaders, but this shouldn't really be surprising to anyone given the context

makomk 10y ago

Some political campaigning group that intended to take online memes and run them as actual political billboards. The outrage was because it was pro-Trump.

oh_sigh 10y ago
There was also outrage within /r/The_Donald as well, because it sounded like a scam and people suspected one of the mods of trying to do a money grab.
justin66 10y ago
> The outrage was because it was pro-Trump. Or because someone managed to find a way to make American political dialogue even dumber.

edaemon 10y ago

As far as I understood it, it was a non-profit that Luckey funded to help promote Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It was seemingly going to do so through memes, though it never recognizably progressed beyond its initial promotion. It was derided from both sides; it was first posted for a sort of crowdfunding campaign to /r/The_Donald where it was lambasted as "astroturfing" and a corporate attempt to profit off of their community. The VR and tech community at large (which tends to lean left and anti-Trump) didn't think much of it until it was revealed that Luckey was providing the funding for it, at which point a great deal of his already waning community support dropped out from under him.

generic_user 10y ago

The internet outrage professionals need there daily quota of clicks and its a slow news day.

oh_sigh 10y ago

Shitposting in real life. Essentially taking comments you might find on /r/The_Donald and posting them on real life billboards.

randyrand 10y ago
What is a shitpost? I think I can get the idea. But could you provide an example from him?
- lugg 10y ago
  It's just a term referring to a shitty post.
  - strictnein 10y ago
    More "worthless" than "shitty". Some people call posting humorous nonsense on Facebook or Twitter as "shitposting" as well. Doesn't add anything, but can be amusing in small doses.
- oh_sigh 10y ago
  A shitpost is hard to classify, but it is usually an off-topic post intended to derail, hijack, circlejerk, or otherwise spam a conversation. I don't have any examples of Palmer shitposting, because his scheme never really got off the ground. A generic example of a shitpost would be if say, someone posted in this thread this image: http://i.imgur.com/QoZHVLs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QoZHVLs.jpg and demanded that we only post spiderman memes, instead of talking about the intended topic.
- atrendyguy 10y ago
  All of the examples you've been given are hilariously wrong. 'Shitposting' is a play on the idea that people with non-pc views are 'shitlords.' It grew out of groups like "Shit Reddit Says" and "Shit 4chan Says" that meant to police language on those sites. tl;dr A "shitpost" is a post that's not politically correct.
  - 10y ago

puranjay 10y ago

Let's remember that this is a 24 year old guy worth half a billion dollars. Young and immature leads to expected behavior. Young, immature AND rich leads to this. I know people expect more from their corporate leaders, but this shouldn't really be surprising to anyone given the context