Twitter/X is just like Assassin’s Creed Shadows (except it isn’t)

Unless you install the Stuffed-With-Nazis mod, that is

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Social media is life – and life is a game.

Take Threads, for example. I understand that it’s the world’s biggest random posting social media app or whatever and yet there’s nothing on it except for 300 million desperate hikikomori trying to make something go viral. “Can you tell what this photo’s of?” they ask. “Name the first fruit beginning with Q that comes into your head!” they plead.

“Stick it up your arse!” I respond to each of these posts, truly getting into the swing of how social media works. Insult, provoke, threaten: that’s what it’s all about, right?

To be honest, I had been hoping to get thrown out of Threads by over-reaching their indulgence but I realise now that this cannot ever happen, thanks to Zuck’s new public commitment to do fuck all about anything. Still, with a bit of luck I might get banned randomly, which would be appropriate as I had been joined into Threads that way in the first place. I literally have no idea how I ended up with a Threads account.

What used to be called Twitter, fine, yes, I remember joining that one. But increasingly people are trying to persuade me to quit Elon Musk’s particular re-evolved butt-mire of Nazi fanboyz. Should I flounce off in a huff? Surely not everyone on X is a goosestepper?

I mean, should I cancel Amazon because they want me to buy anti-semitic lawn protectors from China to ensure only Cats That Look Like Hitler can shit on them?

Aryan cats only allowed on the lawn