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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

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)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this..)

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

wake up babe, new Yud profile pic just dropped

(And by "just" I mean "sometime in the past three weeks or so". I don't skim his exTwitter feed for sneerables very often.)

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting that the artist/LLM rendered his physique in a manly, superhero style but kept (or inserted) a lazy eye.

Someone more versed in Japanese will have to translate the SFX for me. I don't think it's an eager heartbeat but it would be fun if it was .

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

In this case ドドドド or ゴゴゴゴ are both meme sound effects from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure used in dangerous or unnerving scenes. The meaning here would be something like indicating what a menacing aura that hardcore mofo Yud is giving off.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/menacing-%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B4

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-youre-approaching-me-jojo-approach

https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/10/dodododo.html

Of course the AI doesn't know this so combined the two to produce ゴゴドゴ which just looks kind of stupid.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 21 hours ago

Like everything Yud it’s always dumber than you think.