This thread is just becoming a place to post the tweets from the blue check aggregator accounts on Twitter that show up on everyone’s For You page.
Also how tf do people stand the for you tab?? Twitter at all, really. But specifically the for you tab was always awful
If I was probably two years younger, then I probably would have had one when it really took off. But, I'm not and have had zero interest to ever get one.
That makes sense. It started getting traction my senior year of high school (I still remember waiting until I had my .edu email so I could sign up). And then it was a must have in college if you missed that window then I’m right with you. I haven’t had an actual Facebook in about 15 years
I think I’ve gotten too old for humor bc I don’t really get the last few #humor tweets y’all found on twitter
I had to do some research. We need to keep up with the times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English
So it’s not chile (like the country) it’s ch-isle (rhymes with smile). No clue if I understand it yet though.
God damn you crackers, Oooooh child == Oooooh chile (The latter is often how you would write it online) It's still pronounced the same way. It's a damn play on words with the country of Chile using AAVE.
The OP from the tweet didn’t understand that the “chile” on the Lollapalooza poster meant the country Chile and thought Olivia was trying to sound black
I'm still pretty lost here but I'm finally at the stage of old where I don't actually care that much about really learning what it means. I've got a basic enough understanding from all you good folks over the past few posts. That's enough for me.