No offense, but saying this almost completely disqualifies you from having this conversation about private messengers.

Oh I see.

I guess I’ll wait with baited breath for when you’re ready to hold people to that standard. I suppose until then you won’t understand why this is just embarrassing for Musk.

That’s the point of Twitter for users…“haha”.

The people running Twitter should act like professionals. If I was Mr Beast, I sure as hell would not even reply to such a tweet.

You understand that what content creators get paid by the platform is never anywhere near what the platform gets paid by the advertisers…right?

Using completely made up numbers, if Mr Beast is paid $1 by Youtube for every thousand views, YouTube may be getting paid $6 or $7 by advertisers.

Otherwise the monetization would never work.

Musk doesn’t have the funds or the revenue from Twitter to be able to compete with that.

Seriously…what a weird take. High resolution video is simply just nicer to watch, these guys are going a very strange direction with it.

“consumerism”? My dude, it’s pre produced video files. With hardware acceleration it takes barely any real processing power to play back 4k video.

You are not changing anything or making any difference in whether the world is “going to shit”. The Internet bandwidth you’re getting is being artificially choked by your ISP…always.

It feels like you think it’s some kind of moral victory and wanted to take some kind of arbitrary stand against “consumerism” and landed here.

Unless you actually have bandwidth limitations or don’t have a screen capable of displaying the content, lowering to DVD quality is achieving nothing at all.

It is when you’re publicly begging on said platform. The correct thing to do would have been to reach out over DM or even better, reach out to the production team that runs Mr Beast’s channel and begin conversations.

You know, like any other serious company might do.

The only reason he did this publicly is for the attention.

It’s kind of bonkers, isn’t it :(

In my mind, 2000 was still 10 years ago…and then I look at what year it currently is. Oof.

Most people didn’t care about it then either, because most people don’t make blanket assumptions about a news site based on the content of one author one single time.

…it was one guy, 5 years ago, and he’s not even at The Verge anymore.

It’s time to let that go.