Users are quitting in their droves after Elon Musk’s purchase. But where else would I go to babble on, asks Zoe Williams
Users are quitting in their droves after Elon Musk’s purchase. But where else would I go to babble on?Photograph: Keep It 100/Getty Imageshen we were young, my sister was going out with someone called Will Lee and I was going out with someone called Jon Thomas and people were like: “Why don’t you two just admit that you don’t have boyfriends, rather than put us through this farce?” And we were all: “No, no, these are real people.
Anyway, I split up with Jon Thomas , while my sister stayed with Will Lee and now no one ever laughs at his name. About 15 years in, we just got tired., whatever happens to it: every now and then, I am seized by the desire to tell a large number of people about a tiny thing that happened, long ago, before the internet. Perhaps it will have a consoling life lesson at the end, for anyone else out there with a double-entendre name; perhaps it will contain no wisdom at all. I just want to say it.
As people leave in their droves after Elon Musk’s purchase, another tweeter distilled the problem, saying she was “too old for TikTok, too young for Facebook, too weird for LinkedIn, not weird enough for Reddit, too ugly for Instagram”, and I was able to acknowledge’s joke while simultaneously stealing it, by the simple act of retweeting. I didn’t have to figure out whether she was a real person or just a “fan account for the 1996 movie Twister”, as her Twitter bio says.
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