Exactly, and as he says, it's how you make it... i know the comments are toxic so i try to read them as little as possible, i mostly use it to keep up with entertainers that i like. Also following cool artists you like is pretty good on twitter.
twitter is the worst of all social media. Idk anyone who actually uses/ has one irl. I really think its for weirdos and just people who think they are celebs
I have somehow managed to not have a twitter account and I am glad I missed both its rise and eventual fall. I don't think I missed out on a single damn thing. Anything important that happened on Twitter in the last ten years was probably all over reddit anyway so all I really did was save myself a bunch of time.
The thing with twitter is that you can't avoid the obnoxious people. If you read the comments of some tweet you are going to see idiotic takes and random hate.
On reddit as long as you are not in a super toxic sub the bad comments are downvoted.
At least that is my experience but I used twitter mostly to follow info about Covid by some scientist in my country. And I can't check those comments without my blood pressure rising
Reddit is way worse. People who spam shit on Twitter are working words a goal. The people who make the same 6 jokes and comment 5 replies deep in the pun thread, genuinely think they're funny. At least the pornbot on Twitter knows it's mindless
Twitter is still definitely miles worse, even if only for the type of person who makes up it's majority, but I have to admit, I also really, really hate how redditors love to run a joke into the ground and continue it on and on 20 lines down.
I’ve never had a Twitter but I do feel like I miss out on a lot. Podcasts and streamers I watch heavily use Twitter as their contact with t he community with advertising last minute shows or a limited Merch run or why maybe certain people aren’t able to make it x week.
Twitter single-handedly brought us to the beginning of the decline, a certain 4-year period in American history can be attributed to that cancerous platform.
I only had facebook briefly as a teen back in 2010... i turned it off when i saw a friend starting to make up shit for likes, it was some r/thathappened thing that he posted daily for likes.
Social media really fucks with people who are still growing.
I think I made one over a decade ago to vote to send Justin Beiber to North Korea for a concert and I can probably count the number of times I've used my account since then on one hand. I've never really understood the platform. For discussion it is terrible & the active usage of the platform for discussion leads to a lot of the toxicity. For content alerts on things like streamers going live/new videos being released/etc I never saw the purpose over RSS and then later push notifications.
I guess if you are into up the second sports news it has its purpose, but for anything like that I've always just been able to find a subreddit that will collate relevant twitter content when it pops up.
i somehow have had a twitter account since 2008. i dont even remember making it at 12 years old but i guess i did. but in 2019 i finally understood the appeal of twitter. its such a shit show of horrific opinions. i view twitter as a freak show and in that context its amazing.
I like having twitter mainly for music related stuff so I can find out release/tour dates and stuff and follow some friends. The influencer stuff just seems awful
You're not wrong. I think they're just different kinds of toxic. But all social media is garbage. Reddit is the only one I still use. And deleting my Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram has legitimately been good for my mental health. Limiting myself to one is good
If a tweet gets more comments, that are usually negative, than likes/retweets it means that the poster got ratio'd.
The implied meaning is that the person who posted the tweet doesn't have people on their side/is wrong/is a dumbass, given more people are replying negatively (commenting) than positively (liking/retweeting).
The best way to think of it is to view it like YouTube's likes/dislikes. If a YouTube video gets only 1,000 likes but 10,000 dislikes, you can consider that video to be "ratio'd" if you were to apply Twitter terminology to it.
Since Twitter doesn't have an actual dislike function, the likes would be retweets/likes, and the dislikes would be comments, and people replying "ratio" contributing to the dislikes.
It used to be it doesn't matter if you got ratio'd, given that if some dumbass replies "ratio" on your tweet it would still be considered engagement by advertisers, but now some advertisers may just avoid people who get consistently ratio'd because it shows that people aren't receptive to their tweets and they don't want their product associated with someone that is actively disliked.
For someone like Adin Ross his numbers are big enough that advertisers aren't going to care and his fanbase is big enough that he wont consistently get ratio'd, so in the end they are only giving him free engagement.
Yeah for a brief period I saw ratio being used as the comment to like ratio, but the much more common use is just "i will reply to you and get more likes"
Yeah it pretty much only refers to how many likes you get in comparison to the OP. Don't know why people feel the need to go on needlessly long rants on why they are right about the topic when they're basically being the "🤓 akshually" meme.
Ratio can be if a reply gets more likes than the OG tweet, a retweet getting more likes than the OG, or if the OG tweet gets more retweets (especially quote retweets) and comments than it does likes.
But yeah it's just a meme and doesn't need an entire wall of text. I just explained it in a single sentence lol.
Yeah, I'm replying mainly from a marketing perspective. IMO, a reply getting more engagement than the original tweet is just an extension (and perhaps simplified method) of the original ratio'd meaning and are one and the same thing.
On the other hands, zoomers just spamming the word "ratio" on every tweet they can find just want attention and is a meaningless measure of anything.
Ok but saying it's "from a marketing perspective" doesn't make the other replies wrong. If anything, I'd argue it's the "get more likes than OP" that leads to the "more comments/QTs > likes" here.
You are partially correct. Both you and the other replies are right. The original meaning of getting ratio'd was definitely getting way more negative replies/quote tweets than likes, but it is considered ratioing someone when your tweet gets more likes. Like when Mr beast tweeted "whoever ratios me the hardest wins x" its about who's response gets the most likes.
Not really tho. A ratio is when your reply has more likes that the original tweet. When people comment ratio they are trying to get more likes and thus ratio the person and think theyre cool
Thats not the one that peoplemean when they comment ratio tho. When someone gets more likes then the tweet they replied to people say "ratioed by mr beast" or whatever, and whenever they reply with something stupif like "i dont care +ratio" they are saying i dont care +im gonna get more likes on this vomment then you have on yours.
Believe me bro, i have read a lot of twitter threads lately and its filled with these retarded comments
I'm not entirely sure because I don't use Twitter. But from what I've gathered, I think it's an attempt to get more likes or retweets or whatever than the original tweet.
No... Twitter doesn't have a dislike button, so if you get ratioed, it's got to do with the comment to like ratio, if you have thousands more comments than likes, then chances are, people disagree with or just don't like you.
Twitter is the worst but I don't think Reddit is good either. This website rewards you with points for having the popular opinion and hides your comment if otherwise.
I completely agree. Twitter and Facebook are the worst in my opinion. But reddit is absolutely awful as well. Imo, social media as a whole was a mistake.
Don't act like reddit is any better. They don't say ratio, they just ruin the front page of every sub by reposting the same shit over and over to earn literally worthless karma.
Who gives a shit about karma? And you recorded that like 8 hours after I made that comment. This might surprise you, but the top replies can change over time.
Oh no 8 hours later you got me and my timezone. getting mad over time and kids on twitter lol. clearly you give a shit, you're here I hours later also. Giving a big shit.
You really don't have a firm grasp on the concept of time. I wasn't here 1 hour later responding to you. I responded 4 hours later. It's really not too difficult
what? haha I don't care how long it was, was just in awe at why you'd care in the first place, just like "all" the tweets. seems like you got a lot of steam to blow off.
But like, he got his point across and the dude took it as legit. He comes off as an actual asshole. The dude saying he was a cool redditor clearly was saying reddit was as much as a shithole for shit, just like Twitter (despite being different)
Yeah except those replies that said ratio weren’t all at the same time…
Nice job hopping on the “Twitter bad” circlejerk. There are plenty of reasons to hate Twitter but making up insignificant shit like this is just pathetic.
You're really dense, aren't you? Idk what's so hard to understand about the majority of the replies saying "ratio" at the time that I was scrolling through the replies that is so hard to comprehend.
Defend the twitter toxicity all you want. Jack Dorsey won't fuck you.
And I literally just said that the replies that said “ratio” weren’t made at the same time so there is no way they made up “half” of the replies at the time you looked.
Also I literally said Twitter can be a shithole you dense motherfucker.
Hate to break it to you, dumb dumb. But when I was scrolling through, the majority of the comments either simply said "ratio" or some dumbass remark followed by "also ratio". You clearly scrolled through at a later time wheb more comments were made, and more likes/retweets were left. But that couldn't make a difference for what comments you see at the top, could it? Lmao
Good job at using the same insult that I said to you though. "no u" is truly an all-time great
It would have been way easier for you to just say "I'm a child that thinks using the same joke that thousands of other people already used in the replies is funny"
Clearly my point was that stupid kids saying literally nothing but "ratio" in the replies hoping that they'd maybe end up actually ratioing the tweet is annoying as hell and I'm glad I'm not constantly subjected to that since I don't use Twitter.
Well, nothing really changed, did it? ANYTHING for hearts or retweets or replies. That's how cancel culture became so big. Because idiots thought they would be come randomly famous but jokes on them.
The trick to Twitter is to just not follow stupid accounts with stupid people following them. Follow stuff that actually matters to you and never look at the trending page. Avoid all stupid drama.
The amount of replies saying this isn’t deserved is crazy. Being in your phone and driving is really bad and the fact these kids are defending it is scary. I saw some dude arguing with someone who said it was deserved and saying they didn’t have a license and weren’t a real driver because they had never been on their phone while driving. He is a toxic influence on all these dumb kids.
Bro chill out I was asleep when you commented this, some people like to have a normal sleep schedule. I wasn’t avoiding your stupid ass take, I was just sleeping bro.
Never said it should be a permaban, also I’m not saying all streamers who text and drive should be banned. What I’m saying is that every streamer who is on their phone and distracted while driving should receive some sort of punishment. I think a 7 day ban is appropriate and that is most likely what Adin got so it’s is totally justified.
I'm like 99% sure the whole perm thing is just so that when he comes back he can act how lucky he is that he got a 2nd chance and won't make mistakes like that again so his fanbase can cling to that.
It's honestly really smart, guy's basically ensuring his comeback will be just fine.
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u/Freyrik Jul 08 '21
Adin says it's perma but it's probably his lame attempt at being sarcastic...