Tag: Dril

  • Partial List Of Famous People Unhappy About Their Forced Blue Checks

    Partial List Of Famous People Unhappy About Their Forced Blue Checks

    Earlier today I published the article BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues. I mention a list of Famous Twitter users who received a blue check from Elon Musk and publicly denounced it. Here’s a longer list, with citations of Tweets. These are in no order, and the links are to the Internet Archive or Archive.is with…

  • BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues

    BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues

    To greatly paraphrase Tolstoy, you can explain anything to a complete ding dong if they know nothing about the topic, but you’ll fail to explain it to the greatest minds if they start with any preconceptions. Cognitive bias is powerful. People will pay more for a worse product if they think the brand is better.…

  • Brands As People, People As Brands

    Brands As People, People As Brands

    People strive to be brands creating a loss of self, and often a loss of any potential brand. Brands try to be people, in programmatic and contrived ways. Both are organic as a Twinkie asking how the fellow kids are doing. On a call for a long-dead startup building its empire on Google+, someone, a…

  • A Delightful Profile Of Dril

    A Delightful Profile Of Dril

    A delightful profile of the enigmatic and influential Twitter shit poster Dril. Drill is a dude named Paul Dochney, who looks nothing like the dragged lentic he plays online. Historically anonymous for almost a decade, Dril has garnered a large following and even had a book and TV show. The article delves into Dril’s origins,…