Questions needed for 10K Posts' first Q&A episode!
Added 2022-10-12 12:56:54 +0000 UTCWe're recording our very first Q&A Episode next week and need some Qs to A! If you have something you've always wanted to ask, now is your time. Simply reply to this post, and I will select the questions that I think would make for the most interesting discussion.
This will be an all-hands episode of Phoebe, Hussein and Devon.
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What has been the most unexpected turn in the Discourse online for each of you?
Allen
2022-10-21 22:42:41 +0000 UTCbest Trump impersonation/diatribe, go
oranjest1
2022-10-16 23:43:26 +0000 UTCI'd like to hear some nerd shit... Either some behind the scenes on how the show began or at least what mics you use lol. Also Devon is doing great, and keep up the great work everyone
jarysk
2022-10-16 03:25:05 +0000 UTCWhat do you think about the difference between shitposting and iding as a Shitposter?
Duncan
2022-10-14 09:59:16 +0000 UTCAs someone who still regularly uses (a) forum; what do you think they have to offer to niche interests and communities, and could they still be healthier than social media groups? Are they still viable as non-profit places on the internet?
Tovfly
2022-10-14 05:21:48 +0000 UTCAlso would you ever have nick mullen on the pod
Jez69420
2022-10-13 21:03:12 +0000 UTCShould we use social theories like structuralism to understand posting eg cucked - based, soy - chad binaries or more contemporary theories of cultural analysis? or is such an exercise just tryhard and should I just go outside and touch grass
Jez69420
2022-10-13 21:01:25 +0000 UTC(Regarding my verbosity, I’m adapting this from a text message conversation I had earlier today, not writing it from scratch. I’m lazy haha.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-13 00:27:47 +0000 UTCWhich is to say that Ned Fulmer’s wife’s fans got him fired (and, to their credit, managed to keep him the villain rather than Alex Herring, in stark contrast to how Adam Levine’s fans blamed the 19-year-old he cruised on Instagram rather than Adam Levine himself for Adam Levine’s affair). This probably has something to do with the fact that BuzzFeed-style feminism has been a huge part of the Try Guys brand, so the fans would probably crucify the other hosts if they didn’t throw Ned Fulmer under the bus.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-13 00:26:39 +0000 UTCMy response to “who are the try guys” is “oh you mean those people at BuzzFeed who were big on Facebook circa 2016?”. Though incidentally I did already know that they had left BuzzFeed, as “why I left BuzzFeed” videos were themselves kind of a meme circa 2018 or 2019, and I had heard that they left because they wanted more money than BuzzFeed was willing to give them.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-13 00:25:14 +0000 UTCAfter the Try Guys left BuzzFeed, they formed an LLC with the four cast members as directors. The woman Ned Fulmer was having an affair with, Alex Herring, had formerly been at BuzzFeed at the same time as them but left BuzzFeed to work at 2nd Try LLC instead. In other words, Ned Fulmer had supervisory power over Alex Herring; i.e. he was in a position to fire her in retaliation if the affair had not gone his way. So even if the affair was ostensibly consensual, it happened within the context of an unequal power dynamic, and it because of this it broadly fit the definition of sexual harassment under employment law.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-13 00:22:58 +0000 UTCTo be fair I haven’t watched the official Try Guys video statement on the subject, but a big part of how things unfolded is apparently that a fan recognized Ned Fulmer at a nightclub kissing a woman who was not Ned Fulmer’s wife, and this fan posted about it on Instagram, and then it got picked up by Twitter, and the other Try Guys cast members found out via Twitter, and then the other board members in the LLC brought in an HR consultant, and then they fired him based on the HR consultant’s investigation. Which is to say that the social media reaction actually precipitated everything else, not the other way around.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-13 00:21:10 +0000 UTCHow could Australia become a cooler poster? And secondly have you seen the CSIRO healthy eating giraffe tweet? Thanks !
GOOBER
2022-10-12 23:23:21 +0000 UTCWhat do you think that posting has taken from us (as people, as society)?
Jon Crowder
2022-10-12 21:53:07 +0000 UTCAlso: small groups of people still use IRC and blogs and other "old" social media, whether for nostalgia or because they are still useful focal points of communities. What will twitter/instagram/etc look like when they're similarly antiquated, assuming their owners keep the lights on?
Petra The Alright
2022-10-12 20:32:33 +0000 UTCIs having a locked main account a better twitter experience, or are you missing out on all the fun?
Petra The Alright
2022-10-12 20:25:59 +0000 UTCFor all three of you: what kind of pre-internet posting is most interesting to you? It can be a specific post or just a form of posting.
Jordan Clementi
2022-10-12 19:31:44 +0000 UTCWhat was the worst thing that you saw online when you first started using the internet
Martin Wright
2022-10-12 19:10:51 +0000 UTCHow did the early internet react to events such as the Oklahoma City attack and 9/11? How different is it to how we respond to mass tragedies today?
Schaden Freudian
2022-10-12 17:21:45 +0000 UTCwhat are the origins of 10k posts? Does posting have more influence outside English speaking countries?
patrick
2022-10-12 16:04:41 +0000 UTCon a less deep note, how do we tell the oldest meme?
Maz
2022-10-12 14:06:07 +0000 UTCCan social media be fixed? I ask this question in regards to what Blindboy Boatclub says about twitter and how he likes to approach his work, he says twitter just wants to get you mad for points, and the best way to become good at posting is to just be mad all the time because it drives up engagement. And at the same point he realised that externalised praise and negativity of his work affected how he wanted to produce it. So now he relies on internal validation and general introspection on how he feels about his creative process. As humans are social animals, and we appreciate talking to each other and such, are we going to have to go back to small forums and discord like systems, or can a mass market federated sort of thing, like twitter or facebook, be fixed in such a way that it doesn't harm individuals and society.
Maz
2022-10-12 13:45:53 +0000 UTCIn retrospect, how do you view both the media and social-media narratives that surrounded Twitter and Facebook during the color revolutions (not using this conspiratorially - just needed a general descriptor) that started in the aughts and continued through the early 2010s? In particular, I'm thinking about the failed green revolution in Iran and the Tahrir Square movement in Egypt. Oh no, my copy of The Net Delusion has flown off of the shelf and is attempting to beat me over the head again... Knew I should've traded in the hard-copy for an ebook.
Violet
2022-10-12 13:43:42 +0000 UTCWhat's your least favorite flavor of ice cream?
Of Winter
2022-10-12 13:12:15 +0000 UTCWhat are the best posts that you can't or won't do a show about?
Twi
2022-10-12 13:09:59 +0000 UTCI have mostly positive things to say about my experience on twitter, as a neurotic lowbie who can share my impulsive thoughts as I work from home without annoying my irl friends. Do you think online community is something that can be healthily embraced in the context of widespread loneliness in an indifferent state like the UK?
siberianpine
2022-10-12 13:08:25 +0000 UTCWhat's the most stupid, disconnected from real life (and funny to talk about) discourse that you've ever witnessed.
Of Winter
2022-10-12 13:05:22 +0000 UTCWould you ever dare tackle Aimee Terese, and the bizarre posting-brained contrarianism of the post-left in general?
HJC
2022-10-12 13:00:48 +0000 UTCshould children be allowed to have access to social media to give them experience and lessons in something that will pervade their lives, or just like banned from it until whatever age?
Chloe Perry
2022-10-12 12:58:46 +0000 UTC
