Apparently they’ve already raised their pre-seed at a $1B valuation. Cheers to the team!
Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist
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#32Software enters postmodernism
It's weird to me that "postmodernism" is eternally current. It was invented like 90 years ago! It reminds me of how people have been talking about millennials so long as youth that they're about to start turning 40.
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#33The statement is the most interesting part, in my opinion: https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement >In a strange way, this sort of became an anti-statement against what we’d all seen on tech Twitter. We’re a diverse, ragtag group of young technologists tired of the status quo tech industry, and thought that we could make the industry think a bit more about its actions. Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” e…
You've got to be part of a very insular and exclusive group to know what "tech twitter" is. Let alone these "exclusive social apps" they allude to.
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#34That article read like GPT2, not even GPT3. The same few points over and over for a dozen paragraphs. Didn’t actually explain why or how anyone donated money to this fake startup/charities
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was more of a case of "Donate money to these causes and see what happens". Not fraud
I'd say it's borderline fraud. They've been retweeting app screenshots with that emoji combination on it[0], retweeting people saying someone took their "username on that emoji app"[1], and directly tweeted "we’ll see what we can do about an invite" if people donated and sent receipts. And now they're using this publicity to gain employment and sell merchandise. This team mislead people to "support causes" and is now…
Tangentially, if you donate money and receive something tangible, then deduct the full amount from your taxes, that's tax fraud. Maybe giving donors nothing in return is just their way to help prevent inadvertent tax trouble.
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#36William Gibson was ahead of the curve with this in Pattern Recognition and the idea of anti-marketing, where secrecy itself becomes the distinguishing factor in creating interest mostly of perpetually bored, shallow, bohemians and the plot centers around finding the source of deliberately hidden anonymous film clips.
Well spotted. Did you read that recently? How did you make that connection?
Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist
#37The statement is the most interesting part, in my opinion: https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement >In a strange way, this sort of became an anti-statement against what we’d all seen on tech Twitter. We’re a diverse, ragtag group of young technologists tired of the status quo tech industry, and thought that we could make the industry think a bit more about its actions. Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” e…
This is awesome, the revolt of the postmillenials
Honestly I doubt they are young kids. In the recent years, I have noticed this pattern of using young generation as the hotness to push political messages.
Example: https://www.news18.com/news/tech/mitron-not-indian-tiktok-bu...
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#38The statement is the most interesting part, in my opinion: https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement >In a strange way, this sort of became an anti-statement against what we’d all seen on tech Twitter. We’re a diverse, ragtag group of young technologists tired of the status quo tech industry, and thought that we could make the industry think a bit more about its actions. Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” e…
You've got to be part of a very insular and exclusive group to know what "tech twitter" is. Let alone these "exclusive social apps" they allude to.
Ha, downvoted for outing myself as marginalized.
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#39For me - a guy who runs an emoji domain registration site - I've been sort of waiting for the right project to take off, so it becomes, like, a thing. Will this finally be our moment? (I wish I could put a shrug emoji in here...)
Would ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ work?
Re: Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist
#40For me - a guy who runs an emoji domain registration site - I've been sort of waiting for the right project to take off, so it becomes, like, a thing. Will this finally be our moment? (I wish I could put a shrug emoji in here...)
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