Boise Ed submitted this Rabbits Against Magic strip as a CIDU almost exactly two years ago, but his commentary may have made it seem too political to appear here. I’ve adjusted Ed’s comment to remove the political adjectives: “I don’t get it. Why would a Twitter bankruptcy make the … fox move out of his parents’ basement? Someone [else] replied ‘Because without Twitter, he’s got nothing else to do‘, but I still don’t see a connection [between] … ‘Twitter’ and ‘basement’.“
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P.S. “Xitter” hasn’t gone bankrupt since it was senselessly renamed, but hasn’t been for lack of effort.
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I think it’s a play on the idea of Twitter guys sitting in their pajamas in the basement posting at all hours.
Not only has Twitter / X not gone bankrupt, but it survived, despite the concentrated efforts by some groups to drive advertisers away Its performance and features have gotten much better since Elon laid off 80% of the programming team (Grok is a jewel). And it’s pretty much the #1 source for news at present.
Sorry – pregnancy alert. A missed period after the first sentence.
Mark’s opinion of the current state of Twitter seems to be a minority one. Most people have found it to be overrun with spambots, and the neutering of the block feature makes it impossible to avoid bad actors.
Blue skies, smiling at me……….
Mark H — and here I thought I was the only one to refer to a “pregnant sentence”!
Powers: Indeed. The improved performance is surely due not to anything they did, but to a huge reduction in traffic.
I do think the engineers who set it all up deserve credit–many of us in the industry were expecting a complete meltdown after the layoffs, and that hasn’t happened.
There is a stereotype of a person who spends all their time on social media, posting at all hours, such that social media becomes so pervasive that they are unable to do anything else, such as hold down a job or be a productive member of society. The idea is that, if Xitter went bankrupt, it would break them out of the addictive cycle, and they would end up getting a good-paying job, having real-world friendships, and owning or renting their own home. A destructive compulsive/obsessive involvement with Xitter is destroying his life; if Xitter was destroyed instead, his life would improve.
IMHO Xitter is no worse (and no better) than Facebook for addictiveness (addictivity?) And last I checked, Xitter was the most visited social media website in the world, eclipsing Facebook. But ’nuff said, lest we start waxing political. And the last thing any of us wants is to put a shine on politics.
What I meant earlier is that the comics writers & illustrators I follow – Barajas, Henderson, Jacques, North, Pacheco, Rivera, etc – have moved to bsky.
But what is the ‘tweet’ version at bsky? Do I send you a ‘bluey’?
But no one here has answered my question. I still don’t see a connection [between] … ‘Twitter’ and ‘basement’.“ Full disclosure: I have never had a Xitter account, nor am I likely to do so.
The Fox in ‘Rabbits Against Magic’ is known for his political opinions and trollish behavior.
There is a stereotype that internet trolls are mainly post-teen, white males who can’t get a date, might not be gainfully employed, and live in their parents’ basement.
And Twitter/X WAS the largest concentration of political trolling on the web. And they may become so again, since most political content moderation was eliminated.
So if Xitter went bankrupt and turned off the servers, the trolls would need to find something else to do with their time, and probably have to get a job and move out of their mom’s basement.
It doesn’t have to make a LOT of sense, it’s just an extension of an online stereotype.
Chack – people seem to have decided on “skeets”. This slightly annoys the creators, who called them just plain “posts”, but, just because they designed it doesn’t mean they get to decide.
Never been on xwitter, so do not miss the way it was or have to deal with any change.