They grifted the grifters!!!
Really they gifted the gifted. They are the suckers buying into the scam, not the beneficiaries.
Stupid audience and rage bait content makes social media push your stuff.
Congrats, young man, to having found a good way to do the world a service, all while making a fortune.
Every cent those idiots spend on fake girls can’t be spent in GOP donation jars.
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Pretty much sums up the whole political timeline we live in.
This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.
That’s why constitutional republics were created. It’s supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.
Actually, the last time the Constitution was amended was in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights amendment. But, of course, conservative ciquanery kept it off.
ciquanery
On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.
On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake ‘news’ sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that’s what they focused on.
Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation’s influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.
I agree somewhat but it’s not like they were bringing newcomers into the cause, this account was posting rage bait for already entrenched MAGAts, the more time they spend inside staring at fake boobs the less time they’ll spend shooting people
They can do both, you know. They love nothing more than cringe content and “righteous” violence.
I should come up with a “scam MAGA” business model. Damn ethics…
One could argue removing financial power from people who would use it to harm those around them is the ethical choice. Obviously, it would be more beneficial to scam the wealthy, but scamming those who give to the wealthy that would harm others could be framed as pre-empting that gift.
Tell ya what. I’LL do all the shady stuff. You just provide the capitol. Just give me $50 million dollars, and I’ll scam the idiots FOR you!
Money please! Money me now!
Trump already does it successfully
Milton Friedman’s grandson did something similar 10 years ago by scamming libertarians that wanted in on “ocean cities”
Lately, he says he’s noticed that “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like Reels, speculating that an AI hot girl Nazi influencer “would blow up. It would just break all the records.” (When asked about this claim, a Meta spokesperson said, “We prohibit content that glorifies, supports, or represents Nazism, and we remove it when we find it.”)
lmao, they remove it when they find it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
I’ve reported a lot of obvious (but not overt) neonazi content on meta and it almost never gets taken down. Maaaaybe 5% on the high end. It has to be extremely overt to register. Obvious dog whistles like “the Austrian leader was right,” using emojis like 👃, or 🧃 to make hate speech against Jews, 🐵 for African Americans, etc. slides right by.
Blind people are the only ones left that should consider doing image moderation for meta. The rest of their former workforce is too traumatized. No audio though please, that shit is gross.
Hey, they’d have to pay a person in the third world $5 a year to do that, do you think they’re made of money?
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Anything to separate conservatives from their money so they can’t use it to support fascism.
I laughed so fucking hard at this quote. It’s perfect.
And they didn’t even get a cabinet position? Pfft, amateur…
This is truly heartwarming, more people should treat these munters like an ATM.
That read was great for the soul.