Comment by renewiltord
17 hours ago
This is just like the way some people decided that "Blue Check" should be an insult on Twitter. Occasionally people still say it but almost everyone ignores it. Fads like this are common on the Internet. It's just like any other clique of people: a few people accidentally taste-make as a bunch of replicators simply repeat mindless things over and over again "slop" "mask-off moment" "enshittification" "ghoulish". Just words that people repeat because other people say them and get likes/upvotes/retweets or whatever.
The "Blue Check" insult regime didn't get anywhere and I doubt any anti-LLM/anti-diffusion-model stuff will last. "Stop trying to make fetch happen". The tools are just too useful.
People on the Internet are just weird. Some time in the early 2010s the big deal was "fedoras". Oh you're weird if you have a fedora. Man, losers keep thinking fedoras are cool. I recall hanging out with a bunch of friends once and we walked by a hat shop and the girls were all like "Man, you guys should all wear these hats". The girls didn't have a clue: these were fedoras. Didn't they know that it would mark us out as weird losers? They didn't, and it turned out it doesn't. In real life.
It only does on the Internet. Because the Internet is a collection of subcultures with some unique cultural overtones.
Sounds like something a blue checker would say. And yes, if you pay for Twitter you’re going to clowned on.
And what the hell is that segue into fedoras? The entire meme of them is because stereotypical clueless individually took fedoras to be the pinnacle of fashion, while disregarding nearly everything else about not only their outfit, but about their bodies.
This entire comment reeks of not actually understanding anything.
The point is that Internet people are weird and have their own fads. These so-called “slurs” are meaningless. It’s just like perhaps there’s some middle-school class somewhere that’s decided that white shoes are lame. The majority of the world doesn’t care.
These fads are transitory. The people participating think the fads are important but they’re just fads. Most of them are just aping the other guy. The Internet guys think they’re having an opinion but really it’s just flock behaviour and will change.
Once upon a time everyone on the Internet hated gauges (earrings that space out the earlobe) and before that it was hipsters.
These are like the Harlem Shake. There is no meaning to it. People are just doing as others do. It’ll pass.
Found that user who memorized KnowYourMeme and thinks they're a scholar of culture now.
Or a cheap LLM acting as them, and wired up to KnowYourMeme via MCP? Can't tell these days. Hell, we're one weekend side project away from seeing "on the Internet, no one knows you are a dog" become true in a literal sense.
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blue checks are orthogonal - they're more rough approximations of "I bought a cybertruck when musk went full crazy" (and yes, it's a bad look). - judging some blog post for seeming like AI is different.