- X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI “undressing” apps.
- The decline in reputable advertisers on X has made the platform more reliant on less reputable ad buyers.
- The exodus of advertisers, partially due to Elon Musk’s controversial behavior, has left X with a growing revenue gap.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/sbOxS
You advertise to your audience. Ads targeting the perverse and the stupid seem perfectly suited to twitter.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the far right wing christofascists start seeing CP AI generators adverts suddenly, it would fit their preferences so well.
404 Media report[ed] last month that ads promoting “semen stealing” were showing up on the site.
Wait what now
I mean, where do you get your semen?
I make my own.
It’s 9pm. Do you know where your semen is?
Once I figured out how to get it back into my penis I became unstoppable.
Well that UTI was unstoppable anyway.
Just pour some cranberry juice in afterwards.
If I were someone with no tact and low-brow humor, I’d say it’s in your mom’s mouth. Fortunately I’m much better than that. So I’ll just say it’s slowly gathering in preparation for a pre-sleep release into a few tissues.
ETA: which I will douse in hot sauce before flushing down the toilet.
I got the rest from this guy named Ralph in an alley–stupid asshole didn’t even charge me, he just told me to close my eyes and suck it out of a hose!
I make my own
I wanted to see what kind of ads that might actually be since I have zero concept. I do not recommend typing “semen stealing” into Google innocently and hoping for an answer.
I’m going to have some weird ads now…
And yet you didn’t share the info with us? Shame on you
You’re welcome to weird up your ads, also.
If you don’t want to search it up, here are the first 3 DuckDuckGo results for “semen stealing”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_fatherhood
https://news.yahoo.com/spurgling-stealing-sperm-pregnant-121820779.html
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2022/01/10831906/baby-trapping-illegal
I saw… that. But what could someone advertise about it! And that’s a curiosity those links don’t answer…
I like how you’re just adbaiting us at this point
Entirely by accident I assure you.
Yea this guy is the hero of the thread, I would have just not bothered with the article if it wasn’t for you pointing that line out
Couldn’t find that username or email is my favourite person!
Yep, I’ve seen that, along with ads for “jack-off pants”:
Well he told advertisers to fuck off so they did.
To me as an average Joe it seems pretty dumb to tell your advertisers to fuck off when they provide a big chunk of your income but hey, I’m not a stable genius billionaire so I just don’t get Elon’s 5D chess moves. Right?
What’s much more interesting to me is when Facebook and YouTube told advertiser’s to fuck off? Because it’s the exact same type of ads but people pretend they see Disney and coca cola ads on everything except twitter…
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I’m calling it now. Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.
People like this never, pathologically, ever, ever admit making a mistake.
Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.
Could that open him up to lawsuits from investors?
His investors wanted this. Twitter was a huge threat to a few oil rich autocratic regimes.
ooh, juicy accusation
Doesn’t mean they won’t sue.
he owns Twitter
At that point, he could just deactivate the entire platform
I though Twitter is publicly traded and has stocks? That would mean that he definitely has a duty towards investors who bought the shares to lead the company in a responsible way, and if he claimed that he destroyed it on purpose, it should lead to a lawsuit from them. But I ain’t no lawyer, only vaguely remember hearing something like that. Or does he own 100% of the shares himself and is the sole investor?
It used to be publicly traded, but it went private when he acquired it.
Which doesn’t mean he doesn’t answer to any investors anymore, of course. He got quite a lot of assistance with that acquisition.
Fafaik he bought 100% of the shares.
I don’t use Twitter and my life is better off.
It’s crazy, any time I open it up I see blatantly obvious rightwing trolls or even gore. My feed pre-Elon didn’t look like that, I mostly followed infosec people but they’ve all gone elsewhere and now it seems I’m being served content that baits me into arguing or converts me.
“The fact that X has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to create a brand-safe environment has only solidified our recommendations to move to growing platforms with better opportunities for organic discovery,” he added.
This is how you say “fuck you too” in corporatespeak
I would personally go with:
“Some may say that Mr. Musk was a visionary, and further to the road map laid out by Mr. Musk during the Dealbook Summit, our organization is happy to assist with bringing said business forecast into reality.”
- Past tense on visionary
- brings up him telling companies to “fuck off”
- rubs it in that his financial people have clearly told him that this is how Xitter goes belly-up, and that when he tries to fix it, he just makes it worse.
Ten is a terrible site anyway.
Please don’t associate Xitter with the ancient Romans. They never hurt you.
They never hurt you.
This heavily depends from which geographical region you’re from. They were the champions of imperialist colonialism for a loooooong time.
Hell, I’d broaden it to the whole world because the Romans popularized Christianity, which pretty much immediately kicked off millennia of religious conflict. Christians vs “pagans” (which wasn’t one single group), Christians vs Christians, Christians vs Jews, Christians vs Muslims, Christians vs all “pagans” in the world (and their history), Catholics vs Protestants, church vs science…
Maybe Christianity would have risen without the Romans, but it wouldn’t have had such a powerful papacy without the Roman legacy. And as much as I hate religion, I have to admit it wasn’t all bad; if it weren’t for the clergy, even more Roman knowledge would have been lost and education in general through Europe would have been worse. Maybe. Islam did have Christianity beat for education and progression for a while, and the church did have a habit of condemning science that contradicted the idea that we were special in every single way.
We’re all victims of Roman jurisprudence
Great, it has now been 0 days since I thought about The Roman Empire.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
The aqueduct.
Yes, they did give us that, that’s true
And sanitation Yes, that too
The aqueduct I’ll grant is one
thing the Romans may have done
And the roads, now they’re all new
And the great wines too
Well, apart from the wines and fermentation,
And the canals for navigation
Public health for all the nation
Apart from those, which are a plus,
what have the Romans ever done for us?
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that’s true. Yeah.
Since when do “high quality ads” exist? I mean, the mentioning of “low quality ads” implies that those others might actually exist.
Probably meaning ads for real products and travels etc.
As a current Twitter user I would say there’s actually a large void between normal ads and whatever the hell I’m getting served on that platform these days.
Head on! Apply directly to the forehead!
JFC, talk about blast from the past. this is all I will hear for the rest of the day now.
There’s low quality ads, shit tier ads and then there’s whatever Muskyboi is attracting these days.
Thai and Japanese TV ads are quite something else
loong man
Hell yes time for another compilation video.
Spanish national lottery has amazing ads. Like in the sense that the writing, direction and execution in general is always spot on. I know how it sounds but they are really little works of art.
Not many people in the world watch Spanish TV, so we might have missed the rare exception.
Actually, millions of people watch Spanish TV.
It’s all relative.
Those YT “in video ads” on Internet Comment Etiquette is about as high quality as you can make it. I wouldn’t want to skip Erik selling Nord VPN, Raycon, Nobleberry, or anything else he wants to make an ad for.
I’m starting to think that telling your customers to “go fuck themselves” may not be a sound business decision.
So that’s why my boss won’t let me do it.
You couldn’t have posted this twenty minutes earlier? Fuck!
Elon gets what Elon deserves
But he unfortunately also gets what he doesn’t deserve, like billions of dollars
And attention. Can we finally stop talking about him? Who cares at this time.
AI undressing apps you say? AI’s about to make that video of Elon telling advertisers to fuck off a lot more surprising.
“What’s that melting refrigerator? I thought this was an undressing app!”
“Oh, my God, that’s disgusting! Software that makes naked pics online? Where? Where did they post those?”
What’s that you say? Advertisers took his advice at that event seriously?
People are still on Xitter? Gross.
Xitter is great for keeping the riff Raff contained, else they share their shit takes with the rest of the internet.
I care just enough to say I don’t care.
I was repeatedly called a GPT3 bot on Xitter. This was before it was even public.
There was a crazy guy on Reddit who was absolutely convinced I was a rogue AI. It was so bizarre.
Can you prove you AREN’T a rogue AI? :p
The best part was, just to see what he would do, I wrote his username and the date and time on a napkin and took a picture of it- blacking out part of my face to limit the doxing- and he claimed it was photoshopped. You can’t win against crazy, but I was pretty amused.
He fully embraced a post-truth world! Assume EVERYTHING is a lie
Except the stuff he knows is true of course
Hmm last time I tried to do that, all I was able to do was show the selection process that required it was flawed and got admin access anyways.
Or maybe whoever was in the terminals was just fucking with me the whole time.
Either way, I’m still not sure I’m a person. Maybe I’m just a meat automation.
You admit you care, and that’s the first step to curing your addiction.
Curing my addiction? Hell no, I just substituted it with Mastodon and Lemmy!
I downvote every article giving him attention
How about we agree to call X/Twitter as Xitter. It avoids the confusion.
Nope. I’m calling it Twitter. If he says it’s okay to deadname trans people on his platform, I’m going to deadname his platform.
Fine, but for those that call it X, there is Xitter as a better option.
There is like one dude trying to call it x.
Haha. Good one.
I find it particularly funny to call it X(formerly twitter) every time I have to mention it.
Also kind of love how Dubious X is as a name cause I always think it’s a porn site before my brain clicks
Yup and tweets as xeets pronounced as “shits”.
xeets pronounced as “shits”
I would pronounce that “sheeeeeiittts”
Fun fact, the greek far right, anticommunist group during WW2 and after were called “Χίτες”(Chites)
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
The Organization X (Greek: Οργάνωσις Χ; commonly referred to simply as X (“Chi” in Greek), and members as Chites (Χίτες)) was a paramilitary right-wing anti-communist royalist organization set up in 1941 during the Axis occupation of Greece. Initially an anti-Axis resistance organization, it gradually shifted its focus towards anti-communism. In 1951, X was officially recognized as a National Organization of Internal Resistance by the Greek Ministry of National Defense. Following the end of the Axis occupation, it played an active role in the persecution of communists during the White Terror and various military operations of the Greek Civil War, most notably the Dekemvriana.
