Article 13 passed today and Tumblr users have some strong feelings of anger and resentment about it. The basic rundown of Article 13 is that it says online platforms are held accountable for content uploaded by any users that infringes copyright; this includes TV shows, music, movies, videos, and pictures. The implications of that run deep when you look to giant online publishing platforms like Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, GitHub, and Reddit. If that's still not making sense, check out this helpful Twitter thread here, that explains why Article 13 passing is serving as its own kind of Doomsday event for the state of the Internet, and things to come.
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To sign up for Tinder, is to willingly subject yourself to the frequently immature, cheesy, and defensively rude whims of other people using the app, just to f**k with people. Every now and again, you might get lucky with a right swipe that doesn't give way to fresh bullsh*t. But with that, we wish you good luck. These people are out there experiencing most anything besides that.
We googled almost all of them and they seem legit. So memorize a few of these if you wanna impress a first date. That said, we totally don't have your back for the second when they figure out your idiotic ruse. Anyway, here are some facts, and if you wanna feel even smarter, then here's some more.
Not every right swipe gives way to an immature moment of disinterested ridiculousness. Every now and again, people seem to get lucky, with the cheesiest of pickup lines, and most shameless of advances. We've pulled together a nice mix of wins and fails from the ever unpredictable social-dating experiment of Tinder.
We all have severe lapses in observation from time to time but damn, Karen. What can we say? At least she figured it out sooner than later. The devil's in the details. This isn't a rare phenomenon, and some people have worse technical skills than others. It's pretty common knowledge that people have a pretty hard time with computers.
This mortified high school student learned a swift and humbling lesson, in iPad insult-sharing. In his case, what he thought was a particularly inspired, vulgar nickname for only his buddy, ended up being showcased to around 100, mystified, and what I imagine, entertained, parents. I mean, come on. If you're just a bored Dad muddling through parent's night, at your kid's school, isn't this kind of a nice and humorous surprise? I think so. But, I ain't a Dad, nor am I a teacher.
The fail's kind of all in the headline here, folks. Seriously. If you're in a situation where you're signing your boyfriend without a backbone, up for Tinder to boost his withering self-esteem, it is time to reassess. It sounds like the dude's rife with insecurities, and has very little sense of himself. She's better off without him!
Twitter users are sharing their hot and funny takes on what a modern day millennial commandment might look like. In the crafting of these hypothetical commandments, they've managed to capture a lot of the more comical traits that fall together, to define parts of the millennial generation.
This informative twitter thread seeks to shed light on how much information, concerning you, is being regularly, aggressively compiled. The results might surprise you, or you're someone who's accepted the state of things as they are, and you couldn't care less about what Google or Facebook has on you. It's a strange time to be alive, as technology continues to evolve faster than we could've ever fever dreamed up. This era requires dogged mindfulness, and research, if you want to ensure you know exactly what using a browser or signing up for a "free" social media service, entails. A whole lot more going on behind the curtain than we realize...
The population of Tinderers never fails to keep things comfortably on the side of immaturity, spicy witty banter, bold (and/or clueless) pickup lines, and shamelessness. These are all A+ examples. If you need more of what the wild word of Tinder has to offer, look over here.
None of these "facts" are true. They're basically a fun exercise in how things can sound true if you make up some context and throw in some names and dates. They sure sound like they're real though. You may even find some stuff that you've been mistakenly telling people for years. We take no responsibility if you end up repeating these as the truth at a party. That's on you, doofus.
Sometimes you see something and with your whole heart and soul you wonder "what the hell is that?" Thanks to the pool of geniuses over at r/whatisthisthing, mysteries like this are posed and solved every day. May the internet make it so that we'll never have to not know anything ever again. Okay, except maybe when you find mysterious items in your dad's toolbox. Maybe it'd be best to not know the truth behind those.
