- Joined
- Feb 6, 2021
Gimmick accounts have one job, one fucking job, and they can't even get that right. The soapboxes are either ways to avoid being cancelled / ratio'd by Twitter lynch mobs, or the owner actually believes a joke account would solve racism by posting a GFM for a black tranny. I can forgive the former, even though its spineless as fuck. However, the fucking ego you need to have to think your account, which people follow as a joke, would have any impact or influence on changing society is astounding. Imagine if meme accounts posted political statements all the time, save that cancer for your main.
I think the reason for this is because running a gimmick account tends to be a surefire, drop-dead easy way of gaining a following on Twitter. The type of person to willingly run a gimmick account doesn't do it because they think it's good content, they do it because it nets them followers with little to no effort, and the type of person that only seeks a higher follower count isn't the most in-touch with what people want. They think "I have big number, people care about me," when it's really the gimmick that people follow, not the person. Once the account owner comes to the inevitable realization that nobody cares about them or their political opinions, they try to mooch off of their lazy-fame by self-promoting their other shit (unsuccessfully) or engaging in the Twitter tradition of giving money to any black person with a CashApp.