Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

  • @chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz
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    I ended up on Know Your Meme because folks are throwing around TPOT like we’re all terminally online and all understand Twitter lingo.

    For anyone else confused: that part of Twitter. It’s techbro “phillosophists” like Peter Thiel.

    • David GerardMA
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      yeah, TPOT is specifically the uwu smol bean neoreactionary race scientists

      • @Soyweiser
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        I ended up on Know Your Meme because folks are throwing around “uwu” like we’re all terminally online and all understand Twitter lingo.

        • @sc_griffith
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          1518 days ago

          looking up uwu on know your meme “uwu,” what is this

          • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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            Wait does “uwu” have a specific referent? I assumed it was just a vibe like dark academia or *-core or Tumblr.

            • @swlabr
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              So my understanding is that uwu/UwU originates as a kaomoji, think (^.^) and (O.O) etc. Using the ‘w’ character to render the mouth starts as a furry thing or a general projection of human expression onto common animals like cats or dogs. (You’ll see the omega symbol used in examples as well.)

              Over the last 20-30 years or so of online interaction etc. kaomoji start to gain a sort of cringe notoriety alongside RP chatting, culminating in a few catalysing memes/copypastas.

              Eventually “owo” and “uwu” start being read aloud/vocalised, similar to how people starting saying “lol” out loud, and this is associated I guess with a cutesy sort of image, though that image is often corrupted or subverted- for example e-girls, who co-opt a lot from of gaming and anime subcultures, lean into the uwu of it all.

              • @swlabr
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                But actually, real internet truthers know that the above is a revisionist version of history put forth as a psyop by russian troll farms, in addition to inventing AI chatbots and adding fluoride to water. This is all to weaken and feminise western men and turn them communist.

                The evidence? owo actually comes from the Russian word “хорошо”, meaning “good” or “ok”, and its usage is normalising russian language in today’s tiktok-pilled youth. This was a strategy cooked up by known cult leader Rajneesh, of course known in Russia as Ошо. Of course, uwu comes from the Russian word “Ушу” which is a secret programming command for the proletariat to learn Wushu and other forms of chinese/communist martial arts so that people can rise up and seize the means of production.

                (jk)

                • @gerikson
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                  sounds horrorshow to me

          • @swlabr
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            OwO what’s this?

    • @Soyweiser
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      Good that you explain it, lot of people here are basically amateur TPOT/lesswrong watchers so we forget this isn’t standard lingo. If you have ever seen us post about eigenrobot that is part of tpot iirc.

      • Sailor Sega Saturn
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        what the heck is an eigenrobot??

        Update: It is too late, Sneerclub, I have seen everything.

        • @froztbyte
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          consadulations on being in today’s unlucky 10k

        • @Soyweiser
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          What if cryptofasc weird but trying to be cute. (Revolutionary ikr).

    • @o7___o7
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      If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?

      • @Evinceo
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        Fuck lmfao 🤣

      • David GerardMA
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        it’s mean to make fun of marc andreessen’s superior brain pan sizing

        • @froztbyte
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          thought he was more of a brain deep dish kinda guy, given how comprehensively cooked he is