The popup wall went up hard the weekend that Kabul fell to the Taliban. Perhaps they were doing it selectively before then, but that was when I first noticed it

The popup wall went up hard the weekend that Kabul fell to the Taliban. Perhaps they were doing it selectively before then, but that was when I first noticed it. Felt like particularly scummy opportunism at the time. Between this and leaning so heavily into the NFT grift, which is likely to burn casual participants and retail-level investors, it seems like Twitter is charting a course to Tumblr-like levels of niche relevance or worse.