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What is up with the "salute" emojii? Seems it is used when you are fired at Twitter? It is some kind of new meme? Or old perhaps?
by mongol 4y ago
What is up with the "salute" emojii? Seems it is used when you are fired at Twitter? It is some kind of new meme? Or old perhaps?
- hasbot 4y agoIt means the employee has chosen to not stay for Twitter 2.0 ft. Elon Musk.
- kccoder 4y agoI'm sure in Elon's mind it's "Elon Musk ft Twitter 2.0".
- faefox 4y agoThe engineer who was summarily terminated after publicly pushing back on Elon's tweets about app performance responded to the news that he had been fired (also via tweet) with the salute emoji. Seems like it's become a meme among Twitter employees headed for the exits.
- mongol 4y agoYes I saw that. Was he first, and others followed? Or was he just following an already established tradition?
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoI wonder if it's related to the EVE Online meme of o7 (ascii salute)
- madeofpalk 4y agoEmployees started using it when the first proper rounds of layoffs were happening https://twitter.com/ruchowdh/status/1588694932872925184 https://twitter.com/ruchowdh/status/1588694932872925184 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/business/layoffs-meta-twitter.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/business/layoffs-meta-twi...
- kilroy123 4y agoApparently this: https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593368576777396226 https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593368576777396226
- dekhn 4y agosearch for [ salute bye gif ]
- stjohnswarts 4y agothey are saluting those brave enough to stick with the sinking ship. They have a problem with Elon and not with those choosing to stay behind.