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Listen guys, the only thing that matters is the Internet Historian video that will come out covering this twitter shit in 3 years.
This guy gets it
@wavywebsurf
omegalul
By then maybe we will actually see some burning. All we see now if people shouting it's burning and then saying it's running like normal for them. Right now it really seems like wishful thinking. I don't use it and I dislike it. I would like it gone, but for something so on fire, it seems like everyone is still using it and having no issues... and if the numbers are right, they are singing up more users and having more interactions then before. That is not exactly the burning I was looking for.
How pathetic and shortsighted of you to something so important...
because Asmond's reaction video to the internet historian video will also be the only thing that matters.
The insulin thing is even funnier when you consider the fact that Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Dude, its not the same type of insulin. its "upgraded" im not defending the price, but when people say this, its painful ignorant.
@@Equal23_ The so called "updates" are miniscule changes purely made to kept the patent running after every 20~25 years. I mean, is the insulin that has worked for decades suddenly get "bad" somehow? The answer is no.
@@Equal23_ found one of the shareholders. I'm on your side, those freeloaders are lucky we even make insulin for them, am I right? We should double the price, if they can't afford it then they can just make it themselves.
@@Equal23_ its virtually the same lol, this statement is painfully incorrect. do you think they line the injection with gold or some shit? Americans just like paying up the ass 😂capitalism ftw
@@Equal23_ Dude let's not pretend that it was the point. The inventor said that, it was for the people, while they are doing it just for money, nothing else, same as other shitty pharma companies like Pfizer. One vial of the insulin costs $10 to make while patients in the US are paying 300-400$ for the vial. But hey, the Pfizer vaccine was also not about the profit...
Everyone who cares about politics and hates Trump thinks Twitter is dying. Everyone else is having fun.
Couple of thoughts. I was an engineer for SpaceX for 4 years. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk whatsoever but there are some key take away's here. With that being said, when Elon fires multiple thousands of people it isn't the way everyone is claiming. When another BIG BUSINESS in general, any big business "at least for the companies I have worked for. Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, SpaceX" takes over, the normal case is: Cancel every bodies badge, every single employee except for those absolutely necessary and kick them out of the building. This prevents internal sabotage of documents or equipment from upset employees. They will then send you an email over the weekend if you are still employed. They issue new clearance badges and have a new orientation for those that are coming back with a summary of the big changes and BGO's "business goals and objectives". They don't just "fire" people like everyone is claiming they were. So all those people that were asked to come back, were not fired they were deemed essential and simply told they are still employed.
Also, Elon didn't create Tesla he bought and kicked out the CEO's via monopoly.
Tesla was created by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon bought them out as a majority share holder and kicked them out essentially.
SpaceX on the other hand was financed by Elon "which is pretty cool" but he had 0 input on any implementation or ideas. Originally he tried to buy old Russian ICBM's to use as a foundation for lack of better words. He then funded the original 13 engineers who already had been working on the idea for quite a while when he realized the raw material cost of building the rocket was merely a fraction of what payload launch cost and a final assembled vehicle would actualize. If it wasn't for those brilliant original engineers who have an extreme passion and talent he would have been going nowhere.
Point being, money can give you a lot more opportunities than would otherwise and it makes failures that much easier to absorb. So with regards to Twitter, he'll be absolutely fine since he has enough finance to absorb the blow and he will find passion project people who don't mind the longer hours or grueling work load as I once did. Hence why he offers stock options that vest over X amount of years. Hire all the brilliant engineers at the beginning of a project, offer stocks that vest, "mine took 4 years to vest and I left immediately after for a better work/life balance job" the overall project core structure is complete, now you can simply hire scrubs just coming out of college to "maintain" design implementation without any real core design. AKA revision changes.
^^This 100000000%^^
This is a bit disingenuous. Elon made Tesla what it is today. Just because his name wasn't on the founding paperwork doesn't mean he took over some massive successful company and claimed the credit. Tesla was nothing in 2003.
I don't know about the not actually firing people part. But everything else is super interesting
@@FractalPrism. Yes, that is essentially how large lay-off's work. You are not fired, you are laid-off until further notice. Often times they even draft contracts that states "if you are deemed essential by signing this notice you agree that you will be contacted/contracted out for any pertinent information required." I've seen these terms drafted anywhere from 1 week to a year based on the intellectual property involved. There is no way they could have drafted 3,000+ firing letters and terms for un-employment for each and every individual. This takes time. Hence the above. I'm sure they wrote a blatant internal email CC'd to all, that if you aren't offered a position back you will be offered X severance package. Therefore mass hysteria ensued and everyone thinking they're fired. How do I know this? Well, Elon did the same thing at SpaceX when I was there. Over 2,000 of us and this was that exact case when he was trying to move production over to the starship location in Boca Chica.
twitter cant get any worse IMO, its already a cesspool of the most toxic humans ever
@@vanguardoffreedom20fr just wait until it becomes the next gab or parler
its been getting better since Musk took over.
At least elon is much more strict on child abuse material. He took action against that immediately when twitter before ignored it for years.
@@notuxnobux Its only worse for the shitlibs. For any normal person it is better.
@@onkarlally I'd rather listen to white nationalist than let people post child exploitation content if that's what you mean. Funny how people didn't care about that along with all the literal terrorist allowed on the site but people they disagree with being allowed a voice is the end of the world.
I like how twitter just removed politics in my trending page
It's better for your mental health buddy, trust me.
I didn’t even notice that
@@MassiveGhost- my twitter trends usually pumps up American/My country's politics even though I don't follow it. I might have read a few of those topics from people I follow to but its ridiculous. After a week or 2 Elon took over Twitter, my trends are filled with stuff that I actually followed to
There's an article where in Japan the entire politic disappeared in favor of music and anime ...
They were changing trendings to be political and now that it's not, people's content is trending
@@TigreDemon OOOHHHHH
People are so desperate for twitter to fail but my experience from 3 months ago to now has literally not changed at all.
Same, I have no idea what they are talking about, I just follow big booba artists on twitter anyway lol
It's just the liberals trying to have something to be offended by. They are determined to be opposed
Lol. They're burning thru cash. Advertisers have fled.
Ignorance sometimes is not bliss my friend
@@Bubbles99718 Pretty much this. The best was when Elon said "Yeah, gimme $8 and I'll give you a blue checkmark, don't care who you actually are." As if this wouldn't be a dinner bell to any troll willing to throw in $8 and suddenly they're the blue checkmark official account for Nintendo posting a picture of Mario flipping everyone off and telling them to go fuck themselves. Someone responded to that tweet saying "Mario would never actually do that!" to which the account responded "Well he just did."
Advertisers don't tend to appreciate it when their brand can just be hijacked by some dingus with $8 to blow on a laugh. Not to mention apparently a large amount of people that got fired from Twitter were the points of contact for numerous advertisers. With those people gone, there was no one left to communicate with the advertisers so the advertisers just said "fuck it" and left.
@@ruggedlemmings9163 They don't care at all, it only matters if they look bad in any way xD In a month they right back on twitter and youtube anyway cos there isn't anything better out there,
what that senior director said is 100% accurate. some of the laziest people in tech will go out of their way to knowledge horde specifically to be gatekeepers and spend "4 days" working on something that anyone that knows where to find a config file, could update it in 20 minutes
Yeah it is a real pain working in the tech industry, especially as a consultant sometimes. Some developers/maintainers purposefully don't use proper documentation or the info is there just buried in a disorganized mess. All to make it harder for the contract to be moved over to the next company when they inevitably lose the contract due to even their own developers/maintainers not knowing the application.
So true, done it myself many times, but that attitude keeps you down and as an employee forever, not a good long term strat
Maybe. But if company didn't treat people like they are expendable, then I would have sympathy
“Oh no Twitter is dying”
No, you’re just mad you’re not protected, and your echo chamber is being dismantled. All they want is moral high ground on every instance of everything true definition of insanity.
@@jackeagleeye3453 He's upset that anti-vaxxers complaining about jews were bullied before Elon took over.
I don’t know man, laying off like 50% of their staff, scrambling to implement an absolutely broken subscription service, losing 4 Million per day and bleeding advertisers in droves sure sounds like the death throes of a company to me.
@@somethingwitty309 they were losing 4m a day BEFORE musk took over, not after, and after he fired the bloat on staff (5 managers for every 1 office worker and coder is stupid bloat) it became profitable
@@tehbeernerd
It isn't really an echo chamber if all [legal] opinions are welcome, is it?
The value of twitter has plummeted to a fraction and major advertisers are leaving but sure this is about left/right nonsense...
I dont think its downhill at all i think people are just upset that their echochamber is dying
I also think that twitter had serious problems before Elon took over.
@@jordanjames2956 yeah it was losing millions of dollars a day apparently, things needed to change
Noice
@@shaunkellison1761 No It didn't. For Twitter to become profitable it needs billions. There a giant debt added from the loan Musk used to buy the company and the current interest rates situation forces advertises to cut the expenses. Also, twitter was profitable for only 2 years form the last 10. Those years were 2018 and 2019.
@@shaunkellison1761 Which document? Do you mean the slides from his Twitter company talk he posed on Nov 27? If so there's nothing about profitability. They only show some more user activity and less Hate speech (majorly due to him changing the definition of hate content on Twitter).
People forget that twitter was losing tons of money before Elon bought it.
.... depends which year you want to pick as reference, but just interest on loans to buy TT will be $1,2B per year... this is the worst loss ever... an then comes advertisers boycott
And now it has a yearly expense of $1.2B in just interest payments. Brilliant.
@@phaikia13 twitter dies with or without elon sounds like a win either way
A large amount of high paying advertisers have backed out. Twitter was bleeding money before, now it's literally hemorrhaging badly. It dosent look good.
Yes but now they go settled with alot more debt and if advertisers continues to leave they'll struggle to pay it off( toys r us anyone)
15:14 whether that's the real company responding or not, it's just too funny how they go "we have not overthrown a government since the 50's"
yeah i thought it was a nice touch as well
To be fair, when Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 90s, he fired tons of people, and especially management, who trashed the brand and it’s products over a decade. So Elon cleaning house and rapidly changing direction isn’t new in any business, it’s just a matter of it will work out or not.
I think the real problem is he fired a mass of people who knew what they were doing before he knew what he was doing.
I was thinking the same thing. Apple has done worse. People thinking that firing people was wrong....lot of deadweight there.
Only time will tell
@@OriOriOhG if they knew what they were doing Twitter would be profitable.
@@OriOriOhG lmao
I think what we're witnessing is a whole bunch of people QQing over losing their echo chamber, and shocked to find out that reality isn't in line with their echo chamber. The reactions and salt from this are gong to be gold.
100% accurate. Twitter has been shit and doing bad for years but NOW it's really out of line for some weird reason
Exactly, like holy fuck I hate politics, but the left is just as miserable as the right side of politics now. Hasan ruined Twitch
@@jackeagleeye3453 Twitter has record mdau & lowered hate speach impressions. advertisers are only leaving because activists are trying shame them into it since elon won't take their side in political censorship & because of the economy. elon fired massive amounts of dead weight that held them back.
@@jackeagleeye3453 When you can fire most of the people in a business and the business can keep on going, it really means you just shedded the dead weight.
@@twogirlzonemike "I hate politics"
* proceed to make a political statement*
Im still waiting for Act Man to tell me what the problem was.
It hasn't changed at all for me, twitter was losing like $4 million dollars a day Elon had to change shit up and a lot of useless staff needed to be cut.
@@tehbeernerd In what way does the verification have to do with them leaving? lol. They're leaving because a very vocal group of people are pressuring them to.
@@niel19861 lol ask Chiquita banana
@TorchBearer90 This is true. Money talks.
@@phun54321 Thought-provoking counter argument. It's made me rethink everything in my life. I feel I don't even know who I am anymore.
@@Wattss40 Here's what I think needed and still needs to happen at Twitter:
1.) Cut a massive portion of staff, while still keeping the site functioning optimally. It was blatantly clear that they were extremely overstaffed.
2.) Invite any form of innovation, which none of the previous management had managed to do in a better part of a decade.
3.) Find a good moderation middle ground that re-assures clients to invest in future marketing. A person can only hope that the moderation council he's building is able to get this right.
4.) Finally make it a viable platform for healthy debate for both sides of an ever-increasingly politically-divisive country while keeping out hate speech. The moderation and algorithmic function of the platform has always leaned to the left politically and the ideal is to have it as close to the center as possible.
5.) Finally find a way to better protect user's PII. The previous management have at best done a terrible job of protecting it, or just blatantly sold it off without telling anyone.
6.) Find methods to get rid of bots, see what you're left with and build from there.
I love streamers complaining about Twitter moving to a subscription type service when streamers literally only survive because they are on a subscription platform like twitch. Asmond really has the most normal person take.
Twitter literally offers nothing for 7.99 a month though.
@@drspaceduck7868 they offer literally the same as a content creator, if you like them you sub and get less ads, if you like Twitter and want less ads you sub. Watching a streamer is free just like Twitter and if you like them enough you sub it's that simple.
Twitter and twitch are fairly diffrrent platforms. People supporting their favorite streamers is significantly diffrrent than a subscription to be seen on a essentially a giant bulletin board.
@@Korsav0 except some that subscription money is used to support a creator. Twitter blue just goes straight to the company
You cant say "well you cant complain cause you do it" its different situations this is a logical fallacy
When he said fired and brought back I thought he meant Ligma Johnson. That shit was hilarious
i like how the whole twitter elon musk take over thing just automatically exosed so many people as being too biased to even cofrim or even do any research on their shitty takes. ha
Like the beginning of this video? Half the crap he said has been proven and if he sticks to the mainstream talking point(like Fauci not being a psychopathic lying criminal) then it is HE who consumes propaganda.
"This tanked their stock"
-price drops 5%
XD
If your team isn't running it, then it's gotta be dying, right?
Team? What team? Software engineers and IT experts were „running“ Twitter and all the good ones were either fired or switched jobs after Musks ultimatum. Politics doesn’t play a role when Musk doesn’t even have the personnel necessary to continue running Twitter, let alone moving it in any direction. That’s why it’s dying, Musk is an idiot and made idiotic business decisions.
It's insane how desperate they are for Twitter to fail just because he's allowing opinions on the platform other than far left fringe talking points.
The guy banned child exploitation material after Twitter refused to do anything for years. If nothing else comes of it, I consider this an unrivaled W.
Truth.
@@wraithflaire1639 It's amazing how you can call a centrist "far right". Just goes to show how being obsessed with politics makes everyone seem like an extreme to you.
If you buy a company then it loses like 75% of its value, I don't exactly call that thriving lol
The way twitter is set up, from character limits to how people see tweets/trending, to the culture of snappy hot takes it promotes, I'm all for seeing it on fire. I did like it for announcements and stuff though, its the people part of it that sucked. And I think the reason it's catching more heat than Facebook is because people use twitter... most people I know at least left facebook for a while now.
Twitter is like the smallest mainstream social media platform. LinkedIn has more users than Twitter. Twitter has millions of users. Facebook and tiktok are in the billions.
@@DrDipsh1t twitter has like half a billion active users a month? Even pre elon?
@@larsrademakers6070 and LinkedIn has like 875M. Nearly double. What's your point?
@@DrDipsh1t that it still is a lot of users, but what was your point?
@@larsrademakers6070 original commenter gave the impression that Facebook is dead and Twitter is booming. Which is far from the truth with Facebook and IG having 2B users each and my example of a lesser talked about platform having twice that of Twitter. Twitter isn't as popular as people think it is.
twitter was killing itself perfectly fine without elons help. he might just be the final nail or he might pheonix it... even money
Lmao people thinking Elon made tesla when he actually just strong armed his way in and then retroactively named himself founder
That really is the main problem. I used to simp for Elon too because I thought he founded Tesla. I thought he invented Paypal, I thought he was a chief engineer for SpaceX etc.
@@digitalzeth1582 honestly same
None of these people gave any shits about the bad things happening on that platform for the last decade. It's just like other commenters said they're just pissed off They're losing their safe space echo chamber
Literal npcs
Just an FYI from a software engineer: a service like Twitter can run relatively fine even with a skeleton crew... until it doesn't. And when an unexpected issue emerges (and it is a when, not an if) you better hope that you didn't kick possibly the only people who know how a certain part of your spaghetti operates when you decided to kick off half of the workforce randomly. From my point of view saying "Twitter has worked just fine for me lol" after the layoffs is a very bad take.
I have quite a mitigated take on this, there has to be some competent people left in. These issues are complex enough for the existing team to make them exist by mistake. Knowledge of a codebase may even works against you in tricky cases. In general laying off half the workforce of engineers, you should be fine maintaining a software. Having new features and stuff? May get into the way of that. For now it's fine. There are still people that really give a damn at Twitter, and that's what you need to keep the product afloat. The 20/80 rule as always.
Asmon isnt really known for the most introspective takes. Either its a super easy topic you cant be wrong about, or hes talking out of his ass and its a coinflip if hes right or wrong. This time he is wrong.
@@--_DJ_-- How do you figure out who is "dead weight" in a span of less than two weeks? If it were that easy, wouldnt it have been done before?
pfft
Apparently it takes 7500+ people to screw in a lightbulb. I'm sure they can redirect people from other projects if/when shit breaks. Also honestly who gives a fuck... If it breaks it breaks 🤷🏽 Twitter is not that important in real life.
I've have over 10 years experience in IT and if you think twitter was going to have issues immediately because of the layoffs you're uninformed
This is where reacting to Illuminaughtii's Elon Musk video comes into play. Would be a good react from a background on him. I can't say it has all the hyper detailed info, but it goes pretty well in
I feel like Actman gathered all the bad takes about the twitter situation and put them in one video
and asmon wrote down all the bad possible responses and listed them on the reaction
I think this guy just hates Elon.
you'd hate him too if you bothered to research his "success"
Yeah. American pewdiepie not funny this episode. A couple of good takes, too many L takes.
I hope now that it’s been a year and we see that twitter is completely wrecked from Elon(literally went down 30 billion in valuation) I hope u know ur wrong now
The moment I knew Elon being forced to buy twitter is thee moment I realize this thing will be wild ride.
But man, I really agree with asmond, the whole thing is funny af
If it fail let it fail, if it improve then its a good thing.
Forced? He knew the strings attached, the requirements when he set this in motion
When was he forced?
@@TheRelentlessKnight Right after Elon wants to withdraw from buying Twitter.
Then Twitter tried to bring it to court to force Elon to continue the transaction.
Apparently, you can't just withdraw midway when buying a company that is worth billions. The battle was not that long, but enough for Elon to know that he will lose the legal battle.
Knowing that fact, Elon decide to buy Twitter right away before the court force him and before the company was worth less than the amount that he had to pay due to the legal battle drama. Let's not forget the legal fee too.
So yeah, I see it as forced. But feel free to see it otherwise.
Why anh who forced please tell me 🙏 🙏
@@justkcworld4796 Twitter and the court due to Elon want to withdraw, I believe due to twitter hiding their bots number... but it was what the media paint it as.
see my previous reply to TheRelentlessKnight. It a bit long for me to type/copy it again.
He's not killing it,he's cleaning it.Thank f..k
The place was an adult daycare, thousands of unneeded people with meditation rooms for them to rest their aching muscles from all the heavy lifting they did. I love what he's done with the place.
@Sajgoniarz there's a video of a woman showing what "a day in the life of a Twitter employee" is like, i know thats not what everyone's day is like but it's pretty telling. I haven't really seen a big change in Twitter with the reduction in employees so they seem, to me, not essential
I think actmans take is bad but at the same time comical and true if it was a "normal" company like mcdonalds or a bank.
Agreed. Say what you want about Elon, he puts his money where his mouth is, and he doesn't employ lazy, entitled workers ... Funny how a year ago, it was "if you don't like Twitter, go to a different website. It's a private company and we can do what we want." But now they want the government to step in cause the CEO is actually enforcing rules that will make good company better and profitable. Love the taste of those salty tears!!!
@@Sajgoniarz there are also videos of staff saying they only come into work when they feel like it. Usually a few hours a week maybe a couple days.
Yes...he needs to destroy the old Twitter in order to make Twitter 2.0...which what needed to happen anyway since Twitter 1.0 is fucking garbage. Good riddance
Twitter is good if you follow funny people, it’s super shitty if you decide to follow anyone that talks politics or whatever the topic of the day is
@@brandonshoults2055 Exactly, I have been using twitter mainly for some artists and small musicians. Never had any trouble with it
@@brandonshoults2055 exactly well said.
@@Finnboy-ml5jv
He's right
Twitter before was a heavily leftist safe space
@@Finnboy-ml5jv hey sorry but the guy is actually doing a good job like it or not
Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, the company that is researching the brain implants to help paraplegics walk again and improve prosthetics performance for those who use them. Whenever you buy a company, you come in a cut out the fat to improve performance. He did this with both Tesla and SpaceX when he took over. It's a method that works for him. Things will be hectic for a while, but long term things will smooth out and probably improve as he builds out his vision, and that being a western version of WeChat.
@@tehbeernerd you think you aren't getting watched on literally every social media app? Lmfao.
So silly reading this now knowing that Elon tanked twitters valuation by 30 billion dollars all on his own lol
If Elon straight up deleted Twitter the day he acquired it, it would have been improvement of the situation.
I think everything is ganna be alright with or without Twitter and a bunch of arm chair experts will fill in the gaps.
Twitter experience has been the same. Maybe more responsive for app. Chaos is rabid people freaking out about their loss of a biased platform
Twitter has always been a cesspool. What you talking about?
Funfact studies have proven that Twitter has mostly rolled out conservative targeting ads. I wonder what bias you are speakng of.
@@demi8890 Bro, they would literally ban people for having the flag of the US as their profile picture (for 'terrorism' btw), anything right of flag burner communist was racist sexist and homophobic. inb4 source?!?! PV made some great videos undercover with twitter employees
@@demi8890 the fact that you think they "exposed their political views" by just calling a platform biased says a lot.
@@Thanatos2k I did read it, and from the looks of it they are being rhetorical and or condescending.
Imagine going from 12000 employees to 2000, firing the entire HR department, taking away peoples primary communication devices ( laptops, email addresses ). Then on top of that mandating that all employees be in office, in a company that is remote first. People literally had to take airplanes to other countries with 1 day notice to go into an office to not lose their job. Regardless if this somehow makes Twitter better in the future, many people got fucked at no fault of their own in the process.
@@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32
1. That has nothing to do with what the original comment said.
2. It tells me that the website is robust enough to survive without constant updates.
As a guy who hates using Twitter, the change of the main Twitter page to the Trending page alone let me start using it.
I think the funniest one with those impersonation accounts is the Nestle one, because they actually did do that. In California, while we were experiencing a drought, Nestle syphoned water from the reserves we had, then sold it at a premium. So shitty.
The problem with misinformation and people impersonating others is that we don't regulate who can access the internet. It's easy to say stupid people don't deserve to be on the internet, but THEY ARE. They also vote based on the misinformation they read on the internet.
There is no bigger purveyor of disinformation than the US government and it's propaganda arm you call the media. The fact that most people still don't know this is mindboggling. That "disinformation team" Dementia Joe was trying to set up is a doublespeak trick. They weren't going to fight disinformation. They were going to create it and spread it.
@@mogalixir ...and the activists who worship them.
If people see _Julius Caesar™_ with a checkmark and think he's real, they deserve to be mislead
@@CeraphineLunaah yes cuz that’s the misinformation this comment is talking abt lmao
"Take a couple heads publicly, everyone starts following the rules" I meann ya not wrong tho 😂
He took the heads before he laid the laws though... because elon is a fascist.
History says otherwise. Ask Robespierre
I think Elon is using the same tactic he does with Space X, when you want a large amount of change or innovation you can either go painfully slow and release a new function every month or two or release one to see how it works. It isn’t great in the short term but it leads to large change in the long run. It is why his rockets improve far faster than other American companies, because he isn’t afraid to lose a rocket to speed up improvement. CZcams takes months to release one new feature, Elon wants to change twitter. It would take years for him to change it to what he wants with that method.
FINALLY, somebody said it. This is the exact reason why Elon's companies are so far ahead in technology that they have a technological monopoly in every industry Elon decides to disrupt.
I think he's going back to a "serve the customers" strategy. Customers pay for verification, so that becomes the income instead of investors or advertisers. It's less income, because the 99% don't have as much money to throw around as the 1%, but it also means a lower overhead cost because they can fire all the censors, commissars, "safety boards" and other such bloat. This is also why so many corporations are not responsive to their customers -- when they get most of their money from advertisers, investors, and other top-down sources, they do the things big money wants for the customers, not what the customers want. I think he's going back to the old school tech company style, like how in the late '90's-early '00's they were actually cool, they would "move fast and break stuff" without being bogged down by corporate bureaucracy.
yeah but there's a reason that style of management is dead, we don't live in the 2000s anymore but if it actually works good for him
This man would be surprised at the amount inventions and successful businesses were a result of someone "just wingin it".
That is hardly true.
@@beo3828 Accuracy International, the company that make the AWP sniper rifle, became as big as they get today as a result of "winging it". 2 bloke in a shed sent their new gun to the British government new weapon trial fully expected to fail and to receive free pointers on how to improve, won the thing. Proceeds to rent a warehouse with couples of work bench that have all their gun in various states of assembly to "pull a fast one" on the gov official, whose there to make sure that they aren't "2 blokes in a shed". That what I remember on top of my head but, I think it's qualified as a "winging it" kind of story.
@@beo3828 Imo, it's only seem extremely planned because it's all work out in the end. So many things could have went wrong, but they stuck out till the end. Remember, they try to meet the demand by their own until they couldn't deliver and have to sub contract to other manufacturer. That manufacturer skim on materials quality, results in underspec products which all most cost them the gov contract so they have to fix the issue themselves. You think they planned that one too?
@@beo3828 Alexander Flemming had poor lab hygiene and noticed mould growing on some food he accidentally spilled on a bacterial agar plate a few days beforehand. He then noticed what we call a zone of inhibition around the mould, which was called penicillium, and then created the first antibiotics or penicillin. This accident lead to millions and millions of lives being saved up to the present day. He made another discovery off the back of an accident later in life too but I forgot
@@mitchelrowe6915 sounds 100% planned
They don't dislike parody accounts because dumb people might get scammed, they dislike parody accounts because dumb people might realize they've been getting scammed all along.
Insulin is a pretty good example, but I guess they already knew that
Asmongold talking about Elon is like the Mayor of Emerald City talking about the Wizard the day before that chick from Kansas and her entourage turned up at the city gates. Y'all buyin the smoke, man.
Twitter is the first time he is paying for it instead of just flipping the bill on the gov (twiiter is the only company that havent been subsidized)
10:55 He didn't make those companies. He bought those companies.
Those were paper companies with no actual product neither a chance to become a proper company. He might not be the original Creator or the original mind behind the idea... But he worked to make those a reality and that's a fact, without him running those companies I doubt those would even exist by now
Dhag, best of luck trying to use logic and facts. Unless you run on the feels, you are just gonna be an istaphobe
@@DhagGamescan u just do a google search before u print literal false statements lmao
Im not convinced Musk is as smart as people would have it, not compared to alot of other CEOs around the world. I dont think he bought twitter as a calculated thing either, rather than going too far in a dck measuring contest that he suddenly couldnt back out of. And no Zack, you are not an agent of chaos. You are actively trying to have as few changes impact your life as humanly possible. Chaos for everyone else though, thats probably just boredom xD
Asmon, this is why I like you man. You aren't the typical streamer like this guy. He acts like he knows at all what it's like to run a multi million dollar company. He's not happy with how things have changed, maybe he knows someone who worked there who is upset or whatever but he's bot being objective. Firing people in a big company is totally normal. When my work was being sold I jumped ship because my pas was only min wage and I know how things go. Rather than stay and have to work ten times harder I left for higher pay. I was not making 6 figures, if I was I would have toughed it out and this guy's just not being real about how good these people had it. They were bragging on tiktok about their glamourous adult daycare life of free gourmet lunch and wine tap. These people played more than they worked so it was not hard to guess why his first move was downsizing the staff.
I always thought Actman was a smart guy. But yea he was pretty biased and not as objective in this video.
God damn we just don’t get how hard it is to be Elon. He’s uniquely intelligent and that why he spends billions of dollars building a one lane tunnel for teslas under LA.
@@LouisKing995 no one said that, but nice strawman.
@@werewolf873 Na that’s definitely what it is mana, we all just too dumb to understand the big brain billionaire plays. Best go buy some Penny stocks and make my money work for me 💪.
Twitters numbers go against pretty much everything this dude is saying. I don’t think he knows what he’s talking about. I don’t think he knows to tell when he’s out of his league… Because he’s way off.
I generally like the act man but he is pretty clueless this time around.
azmond: bro you take a couple heads you have a couple public exactions suddenly people will follow the rules
me: sounds like the Chinese government when they deal with protests
Has Elon made Twitter better? The better question would be 'Has Elon made Twitter more profitable?' because that's what he's been aiming for with all these firings and changes to revenue. That's gonna be a LOT easier to measure.
He is bleeding money and twitter is not doing well.
Elon has gained nothing but problems since Twitter. People are selling shares of his other companies too.
when for every 10 workers, 9 were supervisors, i think Twitter has become more income stable.
The answer is no he hasn't
Twitter from our perspective is pretty much the same, but we were not getting checks from advertisers either. He has to find a way to replace all the ad revenue he lost or just keep letting it bleed money until he declares it bankrupt.
@@melinagoranson Apple and Amazon came back but they are still missing Ford, General Motors, General Mills, Pfizer, United Airlines, Balenciaga and many other big names.
That represents a massive revenue loss.
Do not fall for generalities, always look for specifics or you look like a chump.
@@melinagoranson Because Musk never tell bulshit ... like the hyperloop or the cybertruck or the full self driving or the mars colony or the fuding secure or ...
@@victorbourquin5651 The Hyperloop, where is that thing? Was meant to be done in 2015 as I recall
As a sole owner of the company, the excess staff is money straight out of Elons pocket, not some shareholder. I have to admit seeing the expensive free food, coffee bars, lazy people, … while I was bleeding cash would have had me acting similar to Elon.
You're not a tech business man. Happy employees are typically much more efficient employees.
It can't possibly be because Elon is a tyrant wanna be after covid and makes every business decision now on how much clout it gains him.
Elon went from entrepreneur that could have immensely helped humanity with his financial backing but instead decided to see how famous he can become instead.
Coffee bars are in almost every single high profile company on the world. So is free food and sometimes lounges.
Elon is bleeding cash because he has made incredibly dumb decisions at Twitter and people are tired of seeing him act like a child so his supporter is fading fast.
their stocks should tank, theyre literally putting profit over lives.
Twitter is way better today.
People complaining are complaining about politics. They are sad because they are no longer in control.
You can easily tell what side CZcamsrs are on by weather they say Twitter has become 'objectively' worse or 'objectively' better.
Twitter has always been a dumpster fire and continues to be a dumpster fire.
These over dramatized videos are the worst, for 99% of twitter uses its exactly the same
That's basically Twitter is. The social media that hasn't changed since from the beginning, still brings more toxic people to just ruin your life.
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I love how asmon keeps saying Elon made Tesla and PayPal when he absolutely did not. But when you’re a billionaire you can rewrite history however you want I guess.
You're not listening then. he clearly states that he knows that he didn't create those companies and explains why It doesn't matter or changes anything.
It's just shifting goalposts. The shit that made him hype is now worthless because some rando claims it ain't pure enough.
Like the only value is the absolute brainchild of an organization. Which seems like a childish interpretation of you ask me
Elon has improved twitter if anything.
Yeahhhhh. That’s kinda a political take. There’s very literally no imperial data to say the company itself is in better shape. There’s even less to say the interface etc. has been improved.
@@derekstiles5801 soo more freedom of speech is bad?
@@mercurio822 is banning people who post ur private jet's destination (completely in the guise of the first amendment btw) freedom of speech? also musk is literally shadowbanning people by making extreme speech in a tweet be harder to find than normal speech
@@mercurio822 Where? Its not on Twitter.
I got fired from a job for being a few minutes late a few times. Even though 99% of the time we had to wait 30 minutes for the delivery truck to arrive.
A few weeks later they called me and said "we really need you to come back." I told them to piss off.
Before they fired me, my direct supervisor said "your late sometimes but your our best worker so its okay." And then the very next day some upper management clod saw me come in late on the camera and fired me
It's not the same. You actually got fired for breaking terms of contract or terms per your job. It's your fault you got fired.
@@D1str1ct yeah, it is the same thing. I'm not gonna do favours for someone who will fire me over missing 90 seconds of literal non work. Especially after having a verbal agreement with my supervisors. Especially for a minimum wage, 4 hour/night graveyard shift.
And also, I never said I didnt do anything against any contract, I'm saying that they valued redundant policy over real world results. And that kind of job isnt worth my time.
@@grantshearer5615 being on time is a sign of respect, if i were your supervisor i would tell you the first time to come to work on time the 2nd time id give an official warning that the next time you come in late you are gone, and if you then dont have the discipline to adhere to that, i dont need you, its simple.
@@grantshearer5615 what's any of this got to do with twitter? was there a point in the video you were responding to?
@@Farvadude yes. The part where asmon was discussing returning to a job that had previously fired you
I think a lot of people have never known what happens when a company is bought out. A lot of times a company is purchased and it is divided up and sold off in pieces. Other times a company that is running well is left pretty much to it’s devices but they enhance it. And I think this is a classic example of over half of the company needed to be completely revamped and reworked. The difference here is usually most of these kind of things are happening behind the walls of a building and going on outside of the public eye without a stopwatch. Because of what Twitter is, everybody is seeing it (or thinks they are lol) But I honestly laugh at people who think he doesn’t know what he’s doing. They don’t see the endgame and they don’t see the steps and phases that are not going to happen overnight like instant pudding to get there. Anything as big and complicated as Twitter is not going to be remedied overnight and honestly with some of the messages they had going with child porn along with the censorship, it’s ridiculous to think that could all be fixed so quickly. The people who were screaming the loudest are the people who were enjoying the censorship in my opinion which kept them in their cocoon of never really hearing an opposing view. A lot of people stepped away from Twitter because that’s all it was. Now they are coming back and honestly I’m enjoying it more.
Adding one more thing about how he let people go and brought them back, I honestly think that was a strategic move to let everybody know ultimately he is in charge and things are going to be done his way. Be happy to be back and provide valuable service you are hired to do or don’t expect job security. I really think the guy knows what he’s doing
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the old twitter mods go around banning people who called out pedophilia or something to that extent? I'd look it up but I'd rather not be put on a watch list
"despite twitter firing thousands of people, i have not experienced a disruption in my service". i'm sorry but this just shows that people don't understand how big software works. i'm not saying that there was no excess of work force, but it's too early to judge any long term consequences of losing that amount of work force. maybe they went into "maintenance-only" mode and have killed any innovation, maybe they are doing 12 hour work shifts, maybe the doomsday clocks is just ticking its last minutes, hours, days or weeks. that size of software does not fail instantly, if it ran for years. maybe they will run out of disk space in a week, maybe the compute power will be insufficient in a month - time will tell. and 12h shifts will definitely prolong the that period.
Too many people who think they know how to run multibillion dollar companies criticizing a person who runs two multibillion dollar companies.
People dont understand that failing is a good thing and people that succeed the most have also failed the most.
Bro… we r talking abt a multi billion dollar corporation, failing just fucks peoples lives in this circumstance. That’s why the most common business motto especially for big companies is “don’t fuck up” I’m sorry but ur just wrong
10:54 Charlie has a incredible timing his response is gold .
Best part is asmon ignored it lmfao
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will he did say it he is a unhinged psycho and psychos are not smart they just pretend to be .
This guy being outraged that "one man can change all the rules and ban all the people he wants" is ignoring the same power that was applied to other people in Twitter 1.0. Twitter 2.0 is a way more fair and even playing field. The rules are still settling, but it's definitely closer to free speech than 1.0. Block and mute are features that not enough people talk about.
Looking forward to see what happens with 2.0 in the long run. I, for one, think it'll turn out fine and the overreactions are similar to the coverage that Trump was getting by the MSM since 2016. The birth of the reaction meta sustained by views.
8:20 You are wrong here. These are not baristas from Starbucks (no offense). These are some of the most brilliant engineers in the world! Companies are already creating "crisis-mode war rooms" to strategize on how they are going to catch these rare "pokemons". And money is NOT the issue at all. They'll pay any reasonable compensation. It's not like Twitter paid too much.
Personally, I'm just worried if the place where I can easily get good fan arts and lewd arts (as well as updates from certain creators/games/orgs i guess) is going to go down. Right now it's fine, but long term? I don't know. None of the others are like twitter, not even mastodon.
It's like getting a new king -- so long as it goes alright, I'm fine, but lack of stability worries me, so I want him off so that things could go back to the way things were, where I don't need to care about what the king's doing. A lot of the things that Elon did makes too much risks to my comfort, and whether Twitter will sink or not will be a slow process, so I'd rather not have anything that risks that shit.
Also, as a former fan of Musk, I do think he _was_ smart. But I think he's letting too much of his ego get to him. Just because you're smart at one thing, doesn't mean you're smart at another thing. Elon was smart, because as he said back then, he works a lot and absorbs a lot of knowledge from his subordinates. I'm not sure if he's doing that now. Being 'smart' is a constant process, and being smart doesn't guarantee you'll make the right decision every time. I don't think he's making the right decisions with Twitter, and I don't think he's still as smart as he was back then.
Yepp, just use twitter to follow people I enjoy content from or artists or game devs/game news. I know people say that twitter is a toxic place but when you don't follow or interact with that side at all it's not even noticable. So atleast for me Elon is trying to fix something that wasn't broken.
@@Gasten950 Yeah, when updates, and discovering more art/music/artists/games is your prerogative, the bs on Twitter doesn't show, in fact the only way I hear about it is thru CZcams videos.
@@--_DJ_-- I don't give a fuck if the previous king is "doing a very good job" or is "smart". I don't want to know who's the king, I don't want to care about who's the king. Elon's making me care, all the bs is annoying, just let me enjoy my anime tiddies, LTT memes, and game update news, and I don't want to care at all about anything else on twitter, least of all what new drama is happening.
I do know that my notification tab has looked weird after the Elon takeover, it has less history than before, but so long as the important ones aren't broken, I'll tolerate it. If they broke it, then I'll just centralize everything on my feed reader. Feed reader's ain't the most convenient thing, which is why I prefer Twitter, but it works.
@@--_DJ_-- Yeah, but I mean, it's a new king and shit he does annoys me so I want to bitch about it until he stops being someone I'm aware of. Just make it boring again, man.
Holy shit! The surface level of knowledge Asmon has about Elon and his companies hurts my brain!... Never thought Asmond would turn out to be an Elon fanboy
the fact ppl say twitter is worse or dying or elon is doing a shit job make rly dumb statements
1. he has the platform for around a month, so its current situation is a direct result of the way it has been ran until now
2. we have no actual idea how good or bad elons actions are for at least 1-3 years, because he has to do short term fixes now and implement LONG TERM solutions aswell those are important
3. if half of the shit he says is true, then twitter has been run like shit for ages + has been unpredictable and unfair. elon is not doing anything twitter did before nothing has changed
This guys takes are almost completely wrong at every single level of analysis.
I only see a win/win here.
Either he destroys an objectively terrible platform or he improves it.
Asmon should check out Nevin Nash's video on this. He has actual data, agrees mostly with Asmongold, and the original video is about 45 minutes long.
It's a win, win, win!
This video aged like milk. I hate to say it but asmongold is right again
How is Act Man going to sit there and criticize Elon Musk about how to create a company and grow it to a global scale and dominate a market when he himself can’t even get monetized on CZcams. Inb4 Act Man starts uploading to Twitter. 😂
All the freaking out is absolutely funny as hell. I never seen so many people that are absolutely terrified. that some people will be able to talk and share their opinions.
yeah spamming the nword
@@dylangreen4725 Nigeria
@@dylangreen4725 yes he spent $44billion because of this reason, use your brain man, stop eating up the narrative. come to your own conclusions. i believe in you.
@Dylan
why is it whenever free speech is mentioned, you people immediately think of the N word? That just a word often on your mind?
@@dylangreen4725 that was proven false. it was only by a handful of troll accounts. once banned, that stopped. seems you did about as much research on this as actman did.
Also name calling. Cute.
To be fair though Asmon, billionaire company owners can be as involved or uninvolved as they want with any (or all) of their companies. They can buy companies and then never set foot in them, or have people build their pet-project company and take in the credit despite their involvement amounting to firing the guy currently in charge if the end of year report says that profits are down.
No actual skills are required. Not saying this is what Elon is doing... but keep in mind that those massive companies don't actually need the guy who owns them to get involved in any way in order for them to run/increase profit/innovate/improve/worsen. Just like the owner getting involved could have any of those consequences too. Money breeds money, and when your parents owned Emerald mines? You are wealthy enough to hire expert teams of people that will find great business deal ideas for you to purchase/invest in. People to manage every aspect of your finances for them to increase continuously. Including finding the best shady deals (like political bribing) that will directly help your companies bring in more profits/grow more. Have teams hired to get rid of small competitors or sabotage big ones. Personal ethical boundaries or what they are willing to sign are the only limit.... but, in essence, billionaires don't really need to have any skills or be geniuses in order to get at the top of the capitalist food chain. Capitalism does not run on skill or brilliance. It runs on conning people, screwing people over, taking advantage of others, destroying competition, bribing governments, creating loopholes, crushing worker rights, and on and on.
Truth is, we don't know how much of Elon is at the base of any of his companies succeeding, nor does him being a billionaire company owner means he's a genius and a grand businessman. Maybe he's genuinely done some genius things for some of his companies... or maybe he just talks a bit of smack for attention and admiration.
Act man really trying to act like he wouldn't post on Twitter in a year if he got paid more 🤣
Remember when Actman's crusade against QuantumTV failed?
Man people caring about this are hilarious.
its amazing to sit and watch from the sidelines. keep fighting the good fight lads
Yes it’s so funny to watch people defend a billionaire for absolutely no reason
@@ni9274 No, it's funny watching people collectively lose their shit for a paying service they don't need to use twitter
@@hvyarms4496 "Master may I lick your boots? " You
Asmon is quite obviously out of his depth here.
Chaos?
Ask Synagogues , nightclubs that get shot up if this kind of choas is good.
Multiply that by a thousand.
His dismissal of this is a bit astounding actually
How tf do you go your entire life without changing your own oil? It's like a 15 minute job on most cars.
I love the fake accounts, cause it destroys the commercialisation of your pseudo private space.
Lets have adverts marked as adverts and not some fake "social media managers" pretending to care about you while representing a company built on slave labour.
I think the fact that Twitter looks the same is hilarious. Elon cut around 60% of his staff and NOBODY noticed. I love watching the meltdown surrounding all of this. It's very rare that I use Twitter, but Twitter is doing fine. Better than fine
Also, in regards to the parody accounts, it was stated that any joke/parody account MUST explicitly say that they are. All of the examples I've seen him show are violating TOS and likely have already been cancelled
You’re wrong, Twitter has server issue all over the world, this is a proven fact that you can’t deny.
Same for the banning things, many fake Elon musk account were banned when they had « parody » on their tag and name.
And if you go by the terme of service, an account shouldn’t be permanently banned for parodying.
Twitter isn’t doing better than fine, it’s objectively worst than before with more fake account, more server issue, more bots…
But the worst in this story is the Elon musk fanboy, they’re so pathetic.
What do you mean Ethan didn't specify it? You literally looked at it when it happened, he had parody in his name and as his banner, he didn't have it in his twitter handle.
Even you at the time questioned the ambiguity of Elon's tweet for not specifying clearly enough.
No he didn't.
Twitter is working great on my end.
Never saw a biggest L from Act's side
Everyone who says Elon is failing don't realize it is the reason he's successful lol. You have to fail first to know how to win. He didn't get rich by chance. Sometimes you have to know when you made a mistake and correct it. Learn from that mistake and be better next time. That's life.
He references the ship analogy so much Elon is going to build an aircraft carrier that can do a hair pin turn in half a second just to disprove this point.
twitter has always been just the worst
Wow, youtubers being wrong, while telling a guy worth more than them, how to run a buisness😂
Aged like milk.
To say people that get scammed are too stupid to use the internet is wild. You’re blaming the victim and applauding the scammer. Otherwise I agree most of this is overblown and Twitter will be fine.
the firing, then re-hiring of people can also be done in smart way because it allows the renegotiation of contracts on re-hire
That’s not what happened here tho like at all
This guy who Asmongold is watching is like reddit in person.
very true reddit is full of people who just hate elon because he got a lot of money.
Honestly, yeah. A rare ActMan video that I completely disagree with.
I wish we had more platforms. But it’s like Asmon always says, people only play if other people are playing
It is telling that Asmongold is really good at having opinions on something he doesn't do any research on. Literally no knowledge on the subject matter at hand.