@psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1757arrow-down169
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minus-square@whatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish33•2 years agoSalon.com articles always sound like a 21 year old Redditor wrote them. “The grifters that make up the troll-industrial complex are not okay.” Who writes this lmao. Do they spin a wheel of buzzwords and just write a sentence with whatever comes up?
minus-square@whatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish-7•2 years agoYeah I mean if a 4 year old talks to me I can usually decipher what they are trying to say.
minus-square@psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish34•2 years agoAmanda Marcotte is the author, a reasonably distinguished and well known figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte
minus-square@whatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish-17•2 years agoGuess she just knows her audience is buzzword-craving 21 year old Redditors then.
minus-square@Pringles@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish-26•2 years agoIf you write for salon.com, you are not distinguished. It’s a basically a left wing tabloid and should not be misconstrued as a news website.
minus-square@yata@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-22 years agoCould you elaborate exactly what you find problematic about that wording?`Those terms seems to be a pretty accurate description of the phenomenon.
minus-square@whatisallthis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish-9•2 years agoIt’s cringe and embarrassing to me. That’s all I’m saying.
minus-squarecurtlinkfedilink1•2 years agoI kind of like the “troll-industrial complex”, but agree on your over take on the writing. Gone are the days when writers could produce great alliterations like “nattering nabobs of negativity”.
Salon.com articles always sound like a 21 year old Redditor wrote them.
“The grifters that make up the troll-industrial complex are not okay.”
Who writes this lmao. Do they spin a wheel of buzzwords and just write a sentence with whatever comes up?
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Yeah I mean if a 4 year old talks to me I can usually decipher what they are trying to say.
Amanda Marcotte is the author, a reasonably distinguished and well known figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte
Guess she just knows her audience is buzzword-craving 21 year old Redditors then.
If you write for salon.com, you are not distinguished. It’s a basically a left wing tabloid and should not be misconstrued as a news website.
Could you elaborate exactly what you find problematic about that wording?`Those terms seems to be a pretty accurate description of the phenomenon.
It’s cringe and embarrassing to me. That’s all I’m saying.
I kind of like the “troll-industrial complex”, but agree on your over take on the writing. Gone are the days when writers could produce great alliterations like “nattering nabobs of negativity”.