Tech Douchebags
50: The Parody Account Creator
In this week’s meeting, Kyle Seth Gray shares his addiction to creating parody accounts on Twitter, how he get bored with them very quickly even though he's on Twitter nearly all the time, how he's "too cool" for old news and the many ways he's a stereotypical self-centered oversharing millenial.
In addition, we discuss meme culture, the life cycle of an internet trend, how algorithms affect the flow of news to different people, Twitter focusing more now on the consumer than the creator, and how "normal" people just want approval online from their real-life friends and not random strangers.
It concludes with Kyle committing to step seven by agreeing to delete all the parody Twitter accounts he is no longer tweeting from and has left abandoned.
Links for this episode:
- Kyle Seth Gray on Twitter
- Garrulous Podcast
- Five Steps To Build Your Own Random Non-Sequitur Twitter Bot
- Horse_ebooks - Wikipedia
- KyleSeth_ebooks on Twitter
- Federico's iPhone on Twitter
- Fake DigiTimes on Twitter
- The Lego Oscar on Twitter
- The Most Interesting Man in the World - Wikipedia
- 1% rule (Internet culture) - Wikipedia
- Not Kyle The Gray on Twitter
- The Prompt on 5by5
- Blender_ebooks on Twitter
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