kokorodoko wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 2:36 pm

Actual product page

I read this as a purpose-built gag gift, that you could buy at a store that only sells bullshit like those coexist bumper stickers, local city themed t-shirts, ice molds shaped like dentures, etc

What the hell... this looks like a human imitating a vtube-avatar.

kokorodoko wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 2:10 pm What the hell... this looks like a human imitating a vtube-avatar.

Looks like a lost scene from Idiocracy

kokorodoko wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 2:10 pm What the hell... this looks like a human imitating a vtube-avatar.

It’s nice to see that the tech industry has created a venue where the ‘intellectually disabled’ might earn a living for themselves.

That tweet went gone... but there's a whole genre of them:

^ Apparently, this thing started out with a streamer having different ways of making donations, which would render a pre-set response (they post ice-cream, they get "ice-cream so good", etc), and people started doing those donations so much that eventually the whole stream was just her reading out the donations.

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:13 pm

"...both involve spending an inordinate amount of time in youth idealizing, fantasizing about, and trying to perfect - as aspects of human nature that are ultimately messy and incapable of adhering to your fixed notions and dogma. Eventually, as you get older you'll become disillusioned and lose interest in these things as other goals and accomplishments eclipse the naiveté that drove your youthful passions and delusions about the human experience...."

^ Well done!

Found the source, btw.

kokorodoko wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2023 4:10 pm ^ Apparently, this thing started out with a streamer having different ways of making donations, which would render a pre-set response (they post ice-cream, they get "ice-cream so good", etc), and people started doing those donations so much that eventually the whole stream was just her reading out the donations.

In other words, it's the sound of her taking money so fast she can barely keep up. Cash, yum!

This is what we have instead of bands and underground comics and stuff now.