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I will just as soon my Jack2Head finishes downloading the latest update!
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BonziBuddy was a herald of the apocalypse.
I love this!
I wonder if anyone under the age of ~30 would get the meme.
We shouldn’t have stopped at punching the monkey. We should have been punching CEOs.
Holt shit this is so good
One of my favorites of theirs, easily.
This is my new pfp btw
That’s allowed!
I love u 😳
Isn’t it about clippy and not microsoft
Yes, the people who are somehow getting the message that Louis Rossmann was praising Microsoft either didn’t watch the video or generally struggle with nuance, or both.
It’s not irrelevant. Using a corporate mascot as a symbol against another corporate mascot/product isn’t going to spread the message Louis intended. You argue the people complaining about it aren’t getting his point, but do you really think it will/has survived the word-of-mouth spreading it? The game of telephone that viral trends like this follow is lightning fast and warps messages in extreme ways. And it’s not much of a stretch to assume that, if MS churned out a new Clippy chatbot, people would rally around it to spite the others since they have no understanding of why they were doing it in the first place.
*Also, people already mischaracterize the sincerity of early tech giants. I’ve certainly seen many people lament “the good Internet” of the mid 2000s, as if the very issues we have today weren’t percolating back then. None of those companies were ever good or harmless, the idea that them or their products are “different” now is naive, and relying on that naivety to push for change is a mistake.
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I didn’t say it wasn’t perfect. I said it was a mistake.
this! i’m about to create another account just to upvote this again
It’s also not explicitly not about them either. Kinda the problem with symbols is that they’re marred by association. This movement is ultimately symbolic and the Clippy people (Microsoft) are at the heart of everything this symbolic gesture goes against.
It would be like me trying to make a symbol of how cars are bad by simply showing an old one.
I think if Clippy had teeth back in 1997, he might have been remembered a little differently.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish
They certainly knew how to collect it back then. They just didn’t yet have anyone willing to buy it from them.
Clippy, I pirated your software in '97 and I’d do it again if there wasn’t just hot garbage to pirate.
you have been putting out gold the past few days, love that clippy has teeth but hes talking out of his eyes
People are seriously misremembering Clippy and Microsoft
The teeth are terrifying lol
If I had known*
Conditionals hard!
Is this the anti rosman propaganda kicking in
Ofcorse its true. The point is it couldn’t and it possed us off enough they removed it
Thanks I hate it
