“It’s a 2001 Toyota Tacoma for $800,” said Moss. “It seemed like a good bargain.”
“According to the email she sent me, she’s with a military medical team, they’re about to leave the country,” said Moss.
“Her husband had died. She just wanted to get rid of the truck because she was going to be out of the country,” said Moss.
Amazing but let me show you where he actually fucked up:
Moss told […] that the seller had him arrange the deal with eBay motors.
“I figured eBay supposed to be a good company, might be legit. So I tried it, went through the process of purchasing the truck with the invoice. We kept responding through text messages. Once I sent the money it was a wrap,” said Moss.
I plan to sell my place in about a year and will need to get rid of a bunch of bulky items that I could probably get a few $k for. But if Craigslist and FB Marketplace are my only options, I’ll probably just give it all away and avoid the hassle.
Large meme accounts post the graphic content to Reels in an effort to boost engagement, meme administrators and marketers said. They then monetize that engagement by selling sponsored posts, primarily to agencies that promote OnlyFans models. The higher a meme page’s engagement rate, the more it can charge for such posts. These efforts have escalated in recent months as marketers pour more money into meme pages in an effort to reach a young, highly engaged audience of teenagers, marketers said.
The rise in gore on Instagram appears to be organized. In Telegram chats viewed by The Post, the administrators for large meme accounts traded explicit material and coordinated with advertisers seeking to run ads on the pages posting graphic content. “Buying ads from nature/gore pages only,” read a post from one advertiser. “Buying gore & model ads!!” said another post by a user with the name BUYING ADS (#1 buyer), adding a moneybag emoji.
In one Telegram group with 7,300 members, viewed by The Post, the administrators of Instagram meme pages with millions of followers shared violent videos with each other. “Five Sinola [Sinaloa] cartel sicarios [hired killers] are beheaded on camera,” one user posted including the beheading video. “ … Follow the IG,” and included a link to his Instagram page.
Sam Betesh, an influencer marketing consultant, said that the primary way these sorts of meme accounts monetize is by selling sponsored posts to OnlyFans marketing agencies which act as middlemen between meme pages and OnlyFans models, who generate revenue by posting pornographic content behind a paywall to subscribers. An OnlyFans representative declined to comment but noted that these agencies are not directly affiliated with OnlyFans.
The idea that deinfluencing could lead to less consumption is already fading. Instead, it’s adapting, according to Ronnie Goodstein, a marketing professor at Georgetown University. Many of its adherents change course quickly and begin offering alternatives for the items they tear down. Some are even dipping into sponsored content, including Kromelis — she recently posted an ad for a perfume company.
“I think that the deinfluencers are going to get such a following because negative information is believable, so they’re going to get the believability ratings that the influencers used to get,” Goodstein said. “So the deinfluencers’ influence is going up and the influencers influence is going down.”
“When I first saw it, I genuinely could not be happier,” said Jess Clifton, 26, a content creator from Bentonville, Ark., focused on sustainability. “I am absolutely in love with TikTok — I think it’s the funnest social media ever — but the overconsumption that is generated on it is truly terrifying. … Every single product in our home now is a trend on TikTok, and it’s been really concerning to me.”
It didn’t take long for Clifton to feel dejected. The once “wholesome” trend, as she called it — that for a time was helping people declutter their drawers and reevaluate their need for multiple blushes and eye shadow pallets — has now done a full 360. Now, it is all about the “dupes” (a cheaper, similar product) or “buy this not that.”
“It’s just so disheartening,” Clifton said. “How did TikTok even find a way to take the most genuine trend and still spin it toward overconsumption? It’s wild. Like, Bravo! You did it.”
I popped into my Facebook today to check on a local business that only uses Facebook as their website.
My stream is just a torrent of Friends memes and posts. What is going on? Why would they suddenly decide out of the blue that I want/need an firehose distribution of content about a 1990s show I didn’t even watch in the 90s?
You ever consider that Zuckerberg know what you want more than you yourself know? Just give in to the all knowing book of faces. You are now a Friends superfan.
It boils down to a sense of belonging. Humans need it. They used to get it from family, their job (remember when people worked for the same company their entire life?), and religion.
Now there’s a vacuum that needs to be filled, and it’s being filled by bad things. Social media provides access to like- minded people, who provide a sense of belonging. Too bad it’s often belonging to some terrible things.
Warner’s bill doesn’t single out TikTok to be banned. Critics have said singling out TikTok risks damaging US global alliances and driving more countries into China’s influence sphere, CNBC reported. Instead, Warner avoids making his bill all about TikTok. His office told Reuters that the RESTRICT Act will "comprehensively address the ongoing threat posed by technology from foreign adversaries,” citing TikTok as an example of tech that could be assessed as a threat.
There seems to be a pattern with social media where anything that was ever good moves on to a new app, but all the toxic shit just hangs around like a burnt out star.
Facebook: Went from keeping up with freinds to rotting the olds’ brains
Instagram: Went from sharing pics with friends to nothing but toxic influencers
Snapchat: I assume was fun once but now you only hear about it with sexting, extortion and in-school drug dealing
Twitter: Was pretty cool in the early days, now it’s mostly just deranged people screaming at each other
So TikTok is now cool, but will eventually devolve until nothing but the toxic stuff is left.
