I, for one, thinks she’s pretty cool.
She/Her, Also @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world
Academy Award nominated character actress, clown psychiatrist, Duchess of Bay Ridge, and plastic doll.
She is all of us, yet I’m not her, but sometimes I play her on TV.
So what will be my ending?
I, for one, thinks she’s pretty cool.
I would say betting against a website that had never turned a profit in almost 2 decades of its existence despite getting millions of dollars of free labor (well, more accurately, PAYING to do work for reddit) every year seems like a no-brainer.
It looks like an upside down funnel to me!
Speak for yourself, I first got on Lemmy to promote a movie, and the next thing I know, I was using Arch (BTW) and moderating an Android community.
I’m still not quite sure how that happened. This place.
If they only appreciate me enough to hand me my Oscar this year…
Instagram had slowly morphed from a website to share artsy filtered cell photos to an advertisement platform, where people are turning themselves into characters living the perfectly imperfect life on social media, in an attempt to turn themselves into living advertisements, to buy and sell products, Every photo (especially the natural looking ones) is carefully shot, curated and edited by a team to imitate authenticity, no different than shooting a movie or a TV show.
So then, what happens if that role of a living advertisment can automated by machines, equally as heartless and unrealistic as these performance of perfect daily lives on Instagram? Why go through the efforts, the hours and manpower, to conduct the photoshoots and Photoshops for that one perfectly imperfect targeted post, when anyone with a modern GPU can effortlessly make thousands of machine generated pictures with way less work in the same timeframe?
Why should the role of “social media influencer” even exist then?
I’ve been unhappy about the state of social media for a long time now. But as it appears, the role of the social media influencer, as the lowest common denominator of photography, will be the first to be rendered redundant by AI automation, which brings me hope that in time, social media can be brought back to what originally was: a place for people to talk to people.
Especially when your identity on Signal is STILL only tied to a phone number, instead of a username, and there is nothing less private than actually giving out your real phone number.
Absolutely baffling.
It’s always the one you least suspect, like disguising yourself as an impersonation of yourself.
It’s a pretty bad idea to fire the majority of your employees if you want them to basically recreate Stripe (not just PayPal/Venmo) and somehow mush it into Twitter.
Also, that market is saturated, most banks and credit unions in the US already supports Zelle, and Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal are very estabished tech financial players in this space.
Again, if there ever was a possibility of an American WeChat equivalent to be built, the only one who ever had a chance to build it was Zuckerberg more than a decade ago, during the very short time period when the general population was adopting Facebook, but the old Facebook users have not started migrating off it. Trying to build WeChat in the US in 2023 is foolish at best.
You should probably not listen to the opinion of anyone who pays Elon Musk 8 dollars a month for an emoji.
Have you watched the ending of that movie? Refusing to participate in a broken system is always an option.
If you would like to support your favorite creators, buying their merchandise or donating to them would be far more effective.
I’m not cheap, I’m frugal, there is a difference.
Paying Google for them to stop shoving ads in my face doesn’t feel like a good purchase and I don’t want to support that kind of behavior, and I’m smart enough to use uBlock Origin and ReVanced (Little bit of a struggle though.)
It’s more about principle than anything else.
Global town square? If anything, social media in the modern age is like Time Square: dirty, overcrowded, covered in billboard ads for brands, filled with cartoon characters in costumes and CD hawkers who are only there to take your money, and of course, the people shouting their political agendas at you through megaphones.
I don’t really know how people can even use YouTube without ad blockers. Sitting through minutes of advertisement is not going to make me want to buy your product if I start mentally associating your product with frustration and annoyance. If these video ads are going to be repetitive and annoying, at least make them funny.
It seems like there is nowhere on the Internet to get away from ads currently, even here, where you thought you are safe, you are now reading an ad for my newest movie (you know the one), now also available on streaming!
I’ve never seen anyone trying to impersonate me on Lemmy, but if you ever see them, could you tell them to promote my latest movie, now also available on streaming, since I’m still on strike?
Because as we all know, A-list celebrities are all too smart and have too much integrity to promote random product for money!
So, just like the real Tom Hanks would never promote dental plans, if you ever see famous celebrities like Matt Damon or Kim Kardashian promote dumb things like cryptocurrency, remember, these are not real people, they are all advertisments made by AI impersonators!
I’m going to blame AI impersonators for drinking too much every time I get a hangover from now on.
I vote for the new name to be Margot Linux.