“dril remains relevant by exposing universal follies inherent to the human condition and the ritual humiliations of our most mundane, oft-oppressive yet indispensable social relations, or something” —Dr. leon chomsky
Because it's boring and outdated. It's like the guy at the party who says The Cake Is a Lie and expects a solid clap from the young people and then makes fun they "don't get it."
Exactly. I had no idea what that word meant so I Googled it. It turns out the reason I had not been aware of a famous Twitter account is because… I never had a Twitter account 😒
If everyone that’s old enough to remember when dril first got popular on Twitter keeps shouting, I’m sure the youths who never really got into Twitter will really start to understand the joke more.
I don’t understand this style of social media. It seems such a useless form. I much prefer TikTok and will abandon this the moment there is something TikTok like now owned by the oligarchs
Who cares we’re here, dude! Are you going to protest or are you going to accept us because this is the negative energy we don’t need in this world cause you can go join the red hats
I'm new here, didn't understand the context of this joke, came to the comments for clarification, and now I get it. Learning the nuance of a new community takes a little time and effort.
Welcome! This is always a rule I try to use when joining new communities even within a single social media site. Lurk and get the vibe before I start contributing. Great advice!
Gonna make a serious reply to an unserious post to explain to TikTokkers who don't get the joke:
Dril isn't just being mean to be edgy. Dril's humour comes from having terrible opinions. It isn't just that it's not meant to be serious, it's that it's mocking the situation, not you.>
Like, most of us here are refugees from somewhere who have recently had the experience of being mocked by people who made snooty assumptions about us when we joined a new platform. THAT is what Dril is mocking.
From within a persona that frequently says obviously false things.
Thank you for explaining for the newbies. I will admit that I am dense to some forms of humor, while others come almost immediately, and this is one of the dense moments.
No problem. I understand why a lot of people here are just like, 'Noooo, explaining the joke ruins the joke,' but just laughing at people for arguing with dril, which they would only know is silly if they knew dril, doesn't help people come to know and love dril, let alone Bluesky.
I have given a short summary to help people, rather than blaming them for not knowing dril. It's not attempting to capture everything about his humour. Dril is a persona. It doesn't have opinions. But it does often say things that are obviously false.
*youtube musical theme plays* what’s up drilScholar69 here. i will be providing crticial historical and social context for today’s poast . *chuckles * he is really doing some sophisticated stuff with this one guys, you wont wanna miss out on today’s joke. so sit back and get ready to LEARN and LAUGH
I understand that it’s a joke. But I can guarantee you that from Mark Twain to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to David Sedaris, there are comic writers who know how to use punctuation.
If you crawled out of your parent's basement you might gain some insight to the rest of the world by experiencing something different. A man mimicking tornado sirens for example.
Many call me baby, but a baby I am not. I’m from Tik Tok, but also I am here partly because META is fucking trash as well as Twitter. The content on that platform cannot be condensed so haphazardly into one basket. (smiles despite herself)
I really can't see any difference in BlueSky & any other social media. Same clusterfuck, different service. Oh, & the increased amount of candy assed Democrats blowing each other... no, I'm NOT GOP or Libertarian, & not a Democrat, just a liberal who sees why Democrats keep losing their asses
Oh, *you're* here from the "Get off my lawn!" Group? (*chuckles* lightly)
Is that like "I don't know why my kids went no contact"-ish for small dick energy?
Childish Gambino once published this:Think about it now.
This is America
Don't catch you slippin' now
Don't catch you slippin' now
Look what I'm whippin' now
This is America (woo)
Don't catch you slippin' now
Don't catch you slippin' now
Look what I'm whippin' now
This is America (skrrt, skrrt, woo)
No its more like a place were people who dont use it think it’s toxic and those who do have small business and disabled individuals can thrive but ya go of king
Did you know you're not the only person on earth? Humans are diverse, different people laugh at different things. But even if you personally didn’t laugh you really should recognize this isn't serious
You’re thinking of something else. Im pretty sure most 4Chan users are part of some secret spy agency, not tied to any government. Otherwise known as 37 and unemployed.
Wait - why are we shaming people that escape an authoritarian sourced app to come here to a mostly American-woman run open source algorithm agnostic platform?
No, but close. We're shaming people that escape an authoritarian sourced app to come here to a mostly American-woman run open source algorithm agnostic platform that don't get jokes.
I have a doctorate in stupidology and I run the Idiot Lab at Dumbass University. I wrote my thesis on Fools and Their Posts. You’re pretty stupid, dude.
Science and medicine don’t have much to do with your inability to spot blatantly obvious jokes homie. I guess next time he should add a little /Iamjoking tag for the slow ones in the audience
Not at all supporting the original snarky comment, but I will say that when I did use reddit, the biggest appeal to me was that (at the time) nobody was trying to sell anything there - the only incentive for being there was social, and that felt nice.
Same for me but I can’t ignore that Tik Tok delivered the American Dream better than the American Government ever could. I’m not a content creator, and I don’t have a small business but I have friends that were practically homeless who were creative and funny enough to make a living off of Tik Tok.
It's a douchebag that other douchebags think is edgy. It's completely childish, lacks empathy and smacks of gatekeeping. But hey, some other douchebag thinks its funny and will pseudo intelligently skysplain it.
Same shit just in a smaller quantity. Reddit has been taken over by right wing nut jobs and Echo Chambers and the formerly nice not safe for work stuff is inhabited by just only fans peddling their asses there
reddit is already full of man children so id say tik tok is more of a modern vine. except for all the vine people who died wierdly. like a lot of vine people died young it was strange right? wasnt that strange?
also if your only seeing pseudointellectual shit then thats your problem. tik tok has been amazing for activism and small buisnesses. of course its sort of like a nasty diseased animal that should be put down after that trump stunt but it was good. vine was just glorified shitposting
correcting grammar to help a point on the internet is an immediate sign that you dont know what your talking about. no one cares which your youre you are using.
vine forced you to be creative, tik tok let people be creative however they wanted. the only reason tik tok can be considered better then vine is because its newer, larger, and accommodates the modern consumer more then vine could in this day and age
If you are dumb enough to take dril (a decade old shitposting account from all across the Internet) you get made fun of until you delete your account. Sorry, it's the rules.
ohhhhh youre old!!!!! okay i get it now hahaha old internet joke hahah just be vaguely mean to people and tell them to "stay mad" when they call you out Ha Ha HA!! so funny grandpa
Why would I want to watch a bunch of people making their prolapsed rectums lip synch Britney Spears songs? I can do that at home. Kids today just want to laze around and let their phones do all the work!
Dude, how do you NOT know who Dril is??? And that making posts like this has been their gimmick on social media for the past 15 years?? You really saw the *chuckles* asterisk and thought he was being serious? 💀😂
i'm surprised by your dismissal of tiktok's value. it's a platform where creators share diverse perspectives, showcase talents, and connect with others. reducing it to "reddit for babies" diminishes the positive impact it can have on people's lives.
Tik Tok brought forth a conscious collective. So many people awakened to what is really going on in our country through that app. That is exactly why it was so important, but the elite felt threatened by something they couldn’t control.
Alt-text: a person facing down a column of tanks, blocking their passage. The person has what looks like bags of groceries in each hand. The lead tank turns to bypass the person, who skips sideways to remain in front of the tank. The tank turns back the other way and the person does the same thing.
It *could* be Tiananmen 1989, but I would *not* know, since I've only seen a still photo of that incident, and it's not the only occasion in history that a person has blocked a tank.
I like to supply alt-text for the visually impaired when a poster omits it, but speculation wouldn't have fit in.
Many social media posts use images to add information or context. "Alt text" is a description of the image so people who are using screen readers can have that additional context. Bluesky lets you add alt text to images, but many people forget, so others supply alt text in a reply. Hope that helps!
You know instead of making fun of people maybe try to understand there are people myself who are autistic and can’t tell when something is a joke or when someone is being sarcastic. But it seems Iike it’s easier to be an ass and make even more jokes. Oh and TikTok’s nothing like Reddit.
Or you could let me be me and over explain because I also have ADHD. Or maybe not tell me how to respond to things like you have some power over my words, thoughts and reactions 🤷🏻♀️
Or you could let dril be dril and post his post because he also has agency. Or maybe not tell him how to respond to TikTok users like you have some power over his words, thoughts and reactions 🤷🏻♀️
Actually therapist say assuming you know someone’s emotions from words in a text or a response is toxic and not healthy because then assumptions are usually wrong. Believe me you’d know if I was mad.
they’re not mad and it is i, who hath made an ass out of u and me , i who hath erred . i will wear the crown of ass hat in the dumb corner as punishment, and i am not mad
I don’t do jokes. If you were autistic you wouldn’t even be asking me that. I have a feeling you just want to harass me. So have the evening you deserve.
I glanced at profiles on other platforms they mentioned so, I really don’t think they’re a bot. Also, they seem to be having a rough go as of late. Gonna chalk this one up to anxieties running high.
Wait. What? You don’t ever make your own jokes or enjoy humor? I’m definitely autistic & my autistic kid wants to be a comedian b/c, as you know, we’re all different.
Unfortunately, it's years of exposure to people who are serious and unironically type like this. Without knowing who dril is, there is no context for them to go on, thus the sarcasm is lost in translation.
An illuminating thing about this whole comment thread is that Tiktok users who believe it educates and informs them seem to have lost the ability to parse text for nuance if it’s not accompanied by a video of someone telling them how to interpret it
I have enjoyed tiktok quite a bit over the years, but I have clocked how some people intensely hold onto its value as an educational tool - but when I watch videos on it I notice I am sort of numbed and passively consuming whatever it shows me, not engaging critically.
I think part of the reason why I like YouTube better is because it’s actually designed for you to search up videos (even though it’s gotten slightly worse)
TikTok’s search engine is much worse in that regard. So you kind of have to watch whatever the algorithm gives you, which is annoying
I dunno man they correctly diagnosed my autism at 41 after everyone in my life including many medical professionals failed me forn2 decades then it taught me how to deal and cope with it better and changed my life. But sure it’s just reddit for babies (I been there 13 years too.)
Right? And seeing ppl talk about all the weird stuff I thought only I dealt with BC IM AN ALIEN (or I thought everyone dealt with but NOPE! Haha) was like puzzle pieces clicking together on my whole life
✋ also properly diagnosed by the ClockApp after less than 6 months of use, and then I spent another 2 years researching, and got an evaluation just to have a professional tell me the Clock App was 100% spot on two years ago.
Yay team ⭐
What do you mean “it’s very racist”? The app itself or people using the app? Both can be true but those are two v diff things. I saw black content getting suppressed or yt content getting traction much easier even if the quality was lacking. Not to mention the slurs that wouldn’t get flagged. So Jc
mocking me and calling me slurs, and seeing many fake accounts like the "amir" trend. I've seen little to none of that on tiktok and have even seen support from others on there.
My words don’t mean much but I’m truly sorry you deal with that. I call bigotry & racism out when I see it but that doesn’t erase it or repair any damage caused.
💯 agree! I think TikTok has a MUCH better atmosphere not only in content but also in comments/moderation. Helps that comments have to be short(unlike yt/Meta) it’s not perfect but ppl can be downright repugnant. All of my content surrounded calling it out
as an indian, i've experienced first hand racism directed at me on instagram such as propaganda in the form of videos that mock indians by showing the side (mind you, it's a very small minority of people in india) of people living in poverty or doing unclean practices, hundreds of comments-
Madam, I really beg you: try your hardest to understand that while social media allows for political discourse, a vast section of it is dedicated to making stupid little posts that you can chuckle at while you sip on a latte and pretend to send emails at work.
reddit is also for babies. I got banned from it permanently for saying a guy in a video shouldn't have punched a woman who kicked his car and all the incels went nuts.
you cannot have a 10 minute debate with a tiktok poster like you can with a bluesky poster. there's no depth behind platforms like that, which can make them fun to just shut off your brain to, but shutting off your brain is a quick way to let yourself be brainwashed lol
I just can't handle any of these other platforms, they're built to make people addicted to the dopamine. I'm glad that you found out what works for your mental health!
Honestly when TikTok started it was mostly creators from musicaly and vine, the content was short comedy skits and dance/lip sync videos it was fun and a great way to pass the time, than the Facebook users came, started posting politics and misinformation videos, when that happend, I was out.
One of the last rings I saw on tik tok was a guy who mowed lawns for free to people who needed help. The elderly women needed help, he started a go fund me and raised a million bucks in days. I’ll miss that
I have a doctorate in Stupidology from Dumb Ass University, and I’m uniquely qualified to say that if you think TikTok has freedom of speech, you believe in something very stupid.
But Trump (somehow) swooped in and saved the day. Not being president, I do not understand how. Biden never shut it down. Could this have all been for show? Because its CEO plans on attending inauguration.
Allowing non-nonsensical posts on social media is comparable to the creation of a modern day "Tower of Babel". It encourages ignorance when the truth is the most valuable asset.
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“he is our mr bean”— jason seagul
A generation that prides itself on being raised on absurdism and satire and actively uses it should be able to spot it.
Much less take it on the chin when it’s the mildest of jokes.
They would be absolutely floored by A Modest Proposal in this case.
However there are some who actually type that out unironically.
Granted, those are also the same people that didn't read A Modest Proposal as satire.
....though to be fair, at this point I'm liking the Proposal as a primer more than satire 🤣
These days, if I even have an inkling of a doubt I tend to either move on or assume they're being serious
Gen Z's know how to navigate using new spaces on the internet to get the context they need
Have you seen Eve6 is on here?
https://bsky.app/profile/eve6.bsky.social/post/3lg3atkyk7c2u
or
you should learn to recognise jokes
WE KNOW OKAY
For everyone else, I understand people feel hurt they lost community groups, trying to force Bluesky to be Tiktok won't work.
I came in like it was twitter and got the belt
Bsky is a dialect. A lot of people are barging in and not realizing there's anything to learn
IRC is still a thing, right?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Dril isn't just being mean to be edgy. Dril's humour comes from having terrible opinions. It isn't just that it's not meant to be serious, it's that it's mocking the situation, not you.>
Not that dril needs a defence - he will not care - but his humour is absurdist; it is not intended to ever be sensible.
From within a persona that frequently says obviously false things.
and if you had spent three seconds reading other comments before posting you'd know that, seriously come on and get reading comprehension
#pluralnotpossessive
What is Reddit?
It’s like spelling for babies.
So far I’ve only had to manually edit anything once to extended a text box
https://bsky.app/profile/augvision.bsky.social/post/3lg6w22q6g22i
You sound creepy.
you, quite literally, asked
not. i'm from tik tok
- Gets a hose
What do you think of that liberal!?
Buddy I’m a socialist I *actually* hate the Far-Right unlike most centrists and liberals
Is that like "I don't know why my kids went no contact"-ish for small dick energy?
This is America
Don't catch you slippin' now
Don't catch you slippin' now
Look what I'm whippin' now
This is America (woo)
Don't catch you slippin' now
Don't catch you slippin' now
Look what I'm whippin' now
This is America (skrrt, skrrt, woo)
👁️👄👁️
https://youtu.be/48JLklwOKrY?si=4oUNvddBX7RrxUZx
1. grammar
2. interacting with other Internet users
Some of these character faces fit them so well I am just delighted
https://bsky.app/profile/augvision.bsky.social/post/3lg4zxk5cgk2w
I'm gonna go ahead and mute this
The hustle and bustle of celebrity culture
He doesn't like likes. They annoy him. Do him a favor and never like any of his stuff.
Gen Z? You’re next.
If I’d read my post before hitting reply, I would have caught that.
Xers, y’all are in there too.
There’s a kid being born right now getting ready to call an Xer “old”.
*that's
TikTok
*drop shippers aren't "small businesses"
*that's not how the algorithm works buddy
There’s no interpretation or conclusion making here; one short form video site shut down and the next one popped up
"creators" though. that's like calling me a Carbon Capture Catalyst for breathing
Do you not know what this is?
hm.....
I like to supply alt-text for the visually impaired when a poster omits it, but speculation wouldn't have fit in.
lol
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executive-order-that-will-effectively-ban-use-of-tiktok-in-the-u-s
Spoken like someone who's really mad. 😃
If you're not just a bot, you're an insufferable example of a human being.
TikTok’s search engine is much worse in that regard. So you kind of have to watch whatever the algorithm gives you, which is annoying
Then TikTok was like LOL U AUTISTICCCCCCC & I ignored it for a sec but then I was like OH SHIT U RIGHT!
Now I don’t hate myself. I’m fine I just got the tism 🤣
Yay team ⭐
https://www.vice.com/en/article/black-tik-tok-tired-of-stolen-dances/
Also, I’m assuming you’re unaware of how your Chinese overlords imprisoned the Uyghur Muslims in a concentration camp.
Sharing my half-baked take. 🥸
because if it's the latter, it's an A+ bit
Tick Tock video format with zero fact checking , shocks , radicalised and polarises .
The ‘Live broadcasts were so outrageous during the election brainwashing and repeating lies for hours.
Honestly for the best. Mental health is way better leaving Reddit.