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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 17 March 2024 (awful.systems)
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As suggested at this thread to general "yeah sounds cool". Let's see if this goes anywhere.

Original inspiration:

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to make it a post, there's no quota here

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[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Unsure if this meets even the lowest bar for this thread but I was jumpscared by Aella while browsing Reddit

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

(raised hand of disapproval) slut-shaming

(pointing finger of approval) Substack-shaming

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i expect she was looking for something to be more famous for than not washing

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh my Glob that's on her Wikipedia page

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

thankfully the Spreadsheet Orgy is not

it made Know Your Meme tho

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

The spread of the parody chart led to jokes about what "came in a fluffer" could mean in a business context. For example, on March 4th, Martin Shkreli joked

Fuck this, launching myself out of the Universe

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And I was so happy we had resisted talking about the graph/incident directly (here is the incident indirectly). My opinion remains a bit like, wow that is weird but good for her, and good to see they took safety seriously.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i will never forgive aella for giving good and wholesome birthday orgies a bad name

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Aella : birthday orgies :: Yudkowsky : fanfiction

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ah, now I got that reference

let's see if it's something that continues to grow and grow so in 1 month or so people I know will try to explain it to me and I will have to pretend I've known all about it, because I am Terminally Online

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Nah this thing has come and gone.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Mom: We have Eyes Wide Shut style orgies at home

Eyes Wide Shut orgies at home:

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

people are laughing because some people came in the fluffer, but I'm just thinking who logged all this shit? There was one person here who didn't participate but just had a clipboard and logged everybodies actions. The orgies middle manager.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Porn shoots have support crews too, but as per another reply it turns out they barely even bothered doing this themselves

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

My post was more a reaction to the know your meme people mocking the people who came in fluffers (which I found weird) than a real thing tbh.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

What the fucking fuck

There are some rather notable layers to that snippet of interaction, holy shit

[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

To be fair, it was beautiful data. This is definitely the first time that reading about a gangbang made me want to subscribe to canva dot com.