Elon Musk’s reaction to PBS joining NPR in taking their ball and going home is hilarious PERFECTION – twitchy.com
As Twitchy readers know, NPR got their britches all sorts of bunched up and stormed off Twitter after Elon Musk pointed out they are Government-funded/backed media. Not entirely sure why they’d get so mad about the reality of who they are BUT Lefty outlets are gonna act like Lefty outlets. Welp, it sounds like PBS has decided to take their ball and go home as well.
What a bunch of babies.
BREAKING: PBS joins NPR in quitting Twitter. Both outlets appear to want to keep their government funding a secret from the tax payers that help fund them.https://t.co/q8DnYjYWTU
— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) April 13, 2023
Oh no, PBS! Stop. Don’t. Come back.
From Bloomberg:
The Public Broadcasting Service has followed National Public Radio in quitting Twitter after the social media network labeled both organizations as government-backed media.
“PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,” PBS spokesman Jason Phelps said in an email. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.”
The spat began after Twitter tagged NPR as “state-affiliated media,” a description it also uses for propaganda accounts from Russia and China. Twitter later changed the wording to “government-funded media,” but the organization has called the description inaccurate and misleading because it’s a nonprofit group with editorial independence.
Editorial independence.
Publicly funded PBS joins publicly funded NPR in leaving Twitter in a huff after being labeled “Publicly Funded” 🤣
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2023
You can’t even make this crap up.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya, PBS 👋
— Jason Jones (@jonesville) April 13, 2023
Yeah, we’re not seeing a whole lot of sympathy for our pals at PBS or NPR.
NPR & PBS leave Twitter because they don’t like being labeled, but are totally cool with being on TikTok which most government employees and the military are banned from using because China uses it to plant malware. Weird. pic.twitter.com/gipEVkcOeW
— Prettylieb (@prettylieb) April 13, 2023
I’m old enough to remember when PBS went out for blood when Mitt Romney even SUGGESTED cutting their federal funding. pic.twitter.com/ar6M2kNmza
But Elon, they identify as independent journalists.
— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) April 13, 2023
Elon, I say to them: Bye bye Felicia 🤣🤣
— David Benjamin (@thetoyman1) April 13, 2023
Amazing how low their engagement to followers ratios are.
— Chase Geiser (@realchasegeiser) April 13, 2023
In other words, it doesn’t look like anyone will really miss them on Twitter.
Sorry, not sorry.
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“I Feel Personally Attacked By This Meme”: 40 Random Funny Memes That Hit Too Close To Home
Certain things make us cringe because our minds can’t help but imagine ourselves in a similar situation. Similarly, we can internalize songs, statements, and even memes if they manage to ring true enough. And because we aren’t exactly perfect, more often than not the truth will be something we would prefer to avoid.
The “I Feel Personally Attacked By This Meme” Facebook page manages to perfectly encapsulate its core ethos. These images manage to be funny, relatable, and somewhat painful in a way that only the truth can manage. So scroll down, get comfortable, and be sure to upvote the memes that attacked you directly, and comment on your favorites.
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Not to spoil the magic behind the scenes, but meme creators have mastered the art of making things so relatable they almost feel personal. After all, the word meme itself refers to a commonality shared by a group. If you peruse the internet, you’ll find meme pages devoted to almost any fandom and topic. Sometimes competing meme pages, where some slight difference has split the fanbase into two warring factions. As the webcomic XKCD once said “Human subcultures are nested fractally. There is no bottom.” In other words, we often set aside the 99% we have in common to battle over the 1% that differs. Now that is a personal attack.
We tend to enjoy content when we believe it’s directly related to us and our experiences. Fortune tellers, horoscope writers, and even personality tests use this concept, often referred to as the Barnum effect, to keep us engaged. The name comes from the famous/infamous American showman and businessman P. T. Barnum. While not exclusive to him, he did utilize the physiology of this effect to keep audiences engaged and entertained. Or distracted, you be the judge.
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But wait, there’s more! Meme creators will also rely on meme-like structures to breed familiarity. You have likely encountered hundreds if not thousands of examples of ‘x is the new y,’ without thinking about it. This kind of structure is called a snowclone, referring to the often-cited idea that the Inuit peoples have hundreds of words for snow. This idea is actually misleading but serves its purpose here to explain this phenomenon. And now that you know what it is, you’ll never be able to unsee it.
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More flexible than a traditional cliche, a snowclone can be bent and adjusted easily, while still maintaining an understandable frame of reference for the reader or viewer. Other more common variants include “the mother of all x,” which is attributed to none other than Saddam Hussein, or at least an Iraqi government Command Council. Others are easier to attribute, such as “to x or not to x?” and the wonderfully old-fashioned “have x, will travel,” for which we can thank the talented Bob Hope.
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Memes like this help bridge our common humanity, as most of the ideas are quite relatable and we can see, from the likes, comments, and shares, that others feel similarly. This can be comforting in a world that often does seem polarized and where it can seem difficult to find common ground. Even outside of memes, research suggests that we aren’t as different as we might sometimes feel. Over 82% of respondents indicated similar emotional responses toward the beauty of nature in one study of relatability among groups.
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These studies argue that, below the surface, we do share a lot of social connectedness that gets drowned out by specific differences. The aforementioned piece of research focused on nature in particular, but it postulates that it could also show up in everything from hobbies, religion, and even places of birth. To extrapolate these ideas to memes that personally attack you, they can help us see universal or near-universal experiences that are shared with others. So even if you feel attacked, know that you are not alone.
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