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Clippy the paperclip is taking over profile pics across the internet in protest of big tech (www.dailydot.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Dort_Owl@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net
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Call me cynical, but I've seen so many of these internet "protests" over the years. I'm just so numb at this point. Nothing ever changes.

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[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 89 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“When a company CEO logs into their Slack and sees 10,000 Clippys looking back at them, what I hope occurs is that they intuitively understand that they no longer live in a world where they can get away with f*cking over the consumer.”

if nobody calls for a boycott or any other action that hurts the bottom line, then this is just virtue signalling based on the flawed assumption that the companies would actually give a shit if some users changed their profile picture but did nothing else, should've used this opportunity to focus on BDS instead

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Liberal action is always "if we make the kings feel slightly uncomfortable, they'll completely stop being awful to us." it's complete nonsense

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

"When mi'lord sees how pitiful we are, he'll quit taking 4/5ths of our harvest"

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At most, a corporation might decide to adjust its messaging around AI somewhat

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Or disable PFP’s, or do like the Disney streaming app where you select one PFP out of an assortment of choices. As long as folks are willing to stay on the platform, Corpo’s got lots of options

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 76 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

“If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”

Pirating still wouldn't be stealing if buying was owning, dipshits. Copying something is not theft.

The implication of this statement that it IS stealing in other circumstances pisses me off

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Pirating is a radical as it gets for these comfortable children.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I pirate everything

Tryna figure how to pirate free DATA any thoughts?

Internet should be free. I thought these solar panels were supposed to change things! done nothing but take from our pockets. More bills!

[–] I_Voxgaard@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The “right to repair” activist compared changing your PFP to Clippy to the Sons of the Harpy movement in Game of Thrones, season five

LMAO wasn't that an insurgency to reinstate literal slavery?!

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, Dany became a bad guy at the end and therefore everyone who was ever against her became retroactively correct. liberalism

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The book was right on this thing: killing all slaveowners is a prerequisite of any decent statebuilding.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

And those dudes were actually killing people, not just putting on dumb masks

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago (2 children)

loser internet protest, they're still going to complain about linux not giving them treats and install Windows 12 anyway.

Louis Rossman is a chud libertarian who lives in texas, it was doomed from the start.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

lmao @ supporting right-to-repair and capitalism at the same time. Damn I wonder why everything is getting enshittified, must be the woke mob

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Looking for the one true capitalist who balances profit and quality (shhh dont tell them where the profit part came from)

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lmao he moved to Texas? What a moron.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

He moved to Texas because he got mad about New York City taxes and commercial rent

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 60 points 3 months ago

CEO's quaking in their boots over a fuckin jpg, im sure

[–] huf@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago

surely corporations will change their ways if we just ask! they just dont know we dont like this!

this will be as effective as changing your pfp to the ukraine flag was

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The “right to repair” activist compared changing your PFP to Clippy to the Sons of the Harpy movement in Game of Thrones, season five.

Not the comparison you'd want to make.

[–] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this Louis Rossmann person was way late to the party but maybe @Clippy@hexbear.net can elaborate

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

He’s a chud anyway.

[–] Clippy@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Clippy says death to apartheid

[–] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Thank you, Clippy!

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 31 points 3 months ago

that will show em

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 months ago

What makes me even more cynical is the amount of those clippy "protestors" i saw under a video of a guy making a mix network, calling it a "new internet" and ending up just having ai generated specs.

And criticism gets met with shit like this:

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is it just me or was clippy objectively awful? I have zero warm and fuzzy feelings for that little shit.

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s clippy revisionism, the nerds shit all over clippy when Microsoft forced him in there. Nobody really even remembers clippy outside of memes.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure the only reason Clippy exists is because the tech was originally developed for Microsoft Bob and that was a huge flop, so they had to use it for something.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Bonzi Buddy > Clippy

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of when people were copying some spiel about how FB could not use any of their pictures etc. without their consent.

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

if i knew how to steal and sell your data in '97 i would have done it

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

EPIC WIN

owned like a boss 😎

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

go see the original video, they're doing it because of game of thrones mask scene

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Ok guys so get this. we collectively protest and stop using social media for a year I’m pretty sure these tech bros would think different. Just the data they mine alone is worth millions in that ecosystem