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Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul
- pohl 3y agoEither way, he decided, “You gotta commend Elon for doing everything in his power to wipe this nuisance website off the face of the earth.” You do not, under any circumstances, gotta commend Elon.
- dlbucci 3y agoI think you might be missing the clear sarcasm in that tweet... Edit: Or I have missed the reference in your comment, it seems!
- jph00 3y agoI think you might be missing the clear sarcasm in that HN comment...
- duskwuff 3y agopohl is riffing on a classic dril tweet: > issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576 https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576
- dlbucci 3y agoAh, that explains it :)
- rsynnott 3y agoBeyond the joke already mentioned, there's potentially another one, in dril's original comment; there was always a bit of a running joke, with some element of truth, amongst Twitter users that Twitter was terrible and needed to be destroyed. There's a reason it was affectionately known as the Hellsite; Twitter aficionados had a very love-hate relationship with it.
- epakai 3y agoAs much as we all like to shit on social media, it's also been a force for large and fast public backlash in many spheres of interest. I tend to view Musk's actions as focused on achieving that outcome rather than destroying Twitter, and it's one aspect that's hard to replace even if we don't always like the outcome.
- pohl 3y agoIt’s not clear what outcome you’re referring to. You say it’s “been a force for…backlash…” So is the outcome you think he’s focused on is to stop that? Or to redirect it to his own interests? Are either of those good outcomes?
- epakai 3y agoI think Musk doesn't like activists of a certain bent, and he's made moves that are damaging Twitter to disenfranchise those groups in particular. Maybe the net outcome is good, maybe not. I think it's hard to achieve that type of outrage (both good and bad) without these massive social media sites. So we might get less toxic social media, but reduce our ability to effect change through social justice.
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoBuddy have you ever been on Twitter lately? It's literal peak toxicity.
- RuggedPineapple 3y agoMusk literally just started bribing right wing activist accounts with Twitter cash. He is absolutely not wanting to disenfranchise activists, he's wanting to target them at people he doesn't like.
- MrPatan 3y agoHow is ad revenue share open to everybody "bribing right wing activist accounts with Twitter cash"?
- Georgelemental 3y agoThere are two things I commend him for: 1. SpaceX. 2. Ending peravasive political censorship on Twitter, resulting in significant, positive (IMO) real-world political shifts. He has made many bad and questionable things, but those two achievements make up for all the rest, from my perspective.
- denlekke 3y agocan you expand on the results part of 2 ? who/where/what are the shifts
- Georgelemental 3y agoConservative boycotts in the US work now, for one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/conservative-boycotts-twitter-social-media-progressives/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/conservat...
- OliveMate 3y ago>But one thing he was clear about from the beginning: It was all right to end this game of living in the digital shadows. > “I mean, my name is already out there,” he said, acknowledging the fact that, after the doxxing, he had at separate points confirmed his name on both Twitter and Reddit. “It’s in my Wikipedia article. Maybe people need to grow up. Just accept that I’m not like Santa Claus. I’m not a magic elf who posts.” Even if he's not Santa or a magic elf, there's still good reason why stories of them are passed down. I've known about his name for years, but it still feels odd and almost wrong about being able to put a name to dril and part of me doesn't really want to acknowledge it (even if it's literally at the top of the page). Of course there's a human behind dril, but it was never JoeyBob's dril. On top of that, when gimmick/silly Twitter accounts get big they either sell out to scammers or the person behind it comes forward and uses the joke account as a personal one — so for dril to still be dril even with internet wide personality is a statement in of itself, especially when they keep doing what they're great at.
- OO000oo 3y ago> when gimmick/silly Twitter accounts get big they either sell out to scammers or the person behind it comes forward and uses the joke account as a personal one — so for dril to still be dril even with internet wide personality is a statement in of itself dril is not a "gimmick/silly Twitter account" though
- mvdtnz 3y agoHe absolutely is. How would you categorise his account?
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoThis is what I really miss about Twitter. Da Share z0ne, Good Tweet Man, Riker Googling, the Transport for London parody account. Weird Twitter is best Twitter.
- neonsunset 3y agoDa Share z0ne went into permanent merch ads and posting politically aligned tweets. Not missed.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoI didn't enjoy their content anyway, it was not my style. But I mentioned them because of how notable and transgressive they were. Their Wikipedia article mentions some stumping for Bernie Sanders and there's a whole section on the TCG decks they produced. So I guess that's where the merch ads are.
- dbcooper 3y agoIt was a group account, and then one guy locked everybody else out, and started going heavy on merch and cringe.
- neonsunset 3y agoI had no idea, this is very unfortunate, the "just walk out" post is widely loved and the reason many subscribed to the account...well, sad that it turned up that way.
- panic 3y agoAt least a couple of these accounts are on Mastodon now: https://mas.to/@dasharez0ne https://mas.to/@dasharez0ne https://botsin.space/@RikerGoogling https://botsin.space/@RikerGoogling
- heavyset_go 3y agoFYAD still exists.
- Conscat 3y agoI was obsessed with Dril/Wint as a teenager. He made me laugh out my ass, unfortunately.
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- _elf 3y agoDril is the undisputed king of Twitter.
- stevebmark 3y agoIt's too early to post more background information on Dril. No one wants it. The final battle of Twitter is king Dril vs shitlord Elon. No know knows what the outcome will be. Elon is trying to promote Dril with artificial inflation, while Dril is trying to destroy Twitter, trolling every new feature and blunder and its inept CEO, and encouraging Block the Blue, to a huge audience. That's the real story here. Everyone is rooting for Dril and the permanent end of Twitter.
- klyrs 3y ago> Everyone is rooting for Dril and the permanent end of Twitter. Including, if I read the situation right, Elon's Musk.
- jrm4 3y agoAs an older guy, I was glad to see "Jack Handey" referenced. I remember going through his stuff and was like -- okay, yes, this is the new Jack Handey.
- cool_dude85 3y agoNo need for quotes. Jack Handey is a real guy.
- patmcc 3y agoI think the funniest line in here is "and looks something like a young Eugene Mirman". Paul is 35. Eugene Mirman is 48. Mirman doesn't even look like an old 48.
- mvdtnz 3y agoI don't want to know anything about the man behind dril. He's just dril to me and I'm happy to keep it that way.
- scrame 3y agoDril is the original "lol i'm so random" twitter tryhard. I guess he's been occasionally funny, like XKCD, but I really don't get the appeal after years and years of just daily shitposts?
- yakshaving_jgt 3y agoThat's ok. It's fine to not like stuff. Not liking something is not really a reason to call the author a "tryhard" though.
- jfax 3y agoYou got filtered
- scrame 3y agolol, it happens.
- jrflowers 3y agoI helped a kid pack up his house after college graduation last year and I saw that he and his roommates had pitched for a ~twelve foot custom banner for their dining room wall that was just a screenshot of a dril tweet about jacking off.
- pictur 3y agoIt's pretty funny to take a twitter troll seriously.
- tehwebguy 3y agoLot of takes in here remind me of when folks thought Norm MacDonald was losing his mind after his Bib Saget roast set.
- prvc 3y ago@dril's body of work compares unfavorably to any output of a Markov text generator.
- Noumenon72 3y agoWhat is the meaning of this quoted tweet? > “i am selling six beautfiul, extremely ill, white horses. they no longer recognize me as their father, and are the Burden of my life.”
- Kye 3y agoYou understood it correctly Which is to say you did not understand it
- smcl 3y agoIf you’re looking for meaning in @dril tweets you’re going to be frustrated or disappointed.
- Noumenon72 3y agoThat's not true in my view: the "candles" tweet is about mocking people who refuse to fix their obvious problems, the "hand it to them" tweet is disapproving of people who platform Hitler out of openmindedness, the "buddy, they won't even let me fuck it" is about self-importance and convincing yourself you're normal. Basically "it would be funny if there were a guy this wrongheaded because it exaggerates something recognizable". I figure this one makes sense to people who understand it's making fun of a 1700s type of guy, perhaps "what if Thomas Jefferson was on Craigslist?"
- smcl 3y agoMy point was that if you read these tweets and don't just "get it" then you're not going to be get much out of having any of them explained or by closely examining them. I know that's the case for most humour, but IMO it's particularly true of @dril
- fold3 3y agoIt's not about the meaning, more about the vibe and how the vibe is delivered. Just read those tweets as you would read a collection of poems. While poetry more often try to give a feeling of beauty, dril tweets are mostly to make you feel funny or laugh.
- devmor 3y agoI've avoided learning Dril's real name until today. This is annoying and unwanted.
- mellosouls 3y agoI've tried dril a few times and never really got the appeal. Obv funny at times, but a lot of it seems to rely on being alt/cool/surreal in some way that I don't connect with too well. Not to say that's a negative thing, I'd prob say the same about stuff like Monty Python. I admire the creativity and the best of it is funny, but often the response to it seems a little about mutual recognition and belonging. Just give me the funny.
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- meatsock 3y agoi'm excited about dril mentioning doing anything in the style of Brass Eye [1] (a satiric british news show from the 90s) [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=En3TYdWfwaw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=En3TYdWfwaw