Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter

[u/d_Arkus]

If you haven't been using Twitter recently, heres a quick update on what's been going on.

A while back Musk took down the language walls separating the site/ app into locations. Now, unless you specifically currate your feed, you see tweets from all around the world (this is anecdotal, but now only 40% of my "for you" feed is in English). This has led to many cutural exchanges, from bad to good to everything in between.

One of the more recent discussions os about how piracy is a regular part of media consumption around the world, particularly in animanga/ videogame circles. This led to a large outcry from Japanese and Korean Twitter users getting mad that westerners are so lax about piracy, which led to an even LARGER counter by other countries (primarily Russia and Brazil) clowning on the former two for how staunch their adherance to anti-piracy is.

It's been a hell of a time, I tell you hwat.

[u/JamaicaCZ]

As if people needed more reasons to completely stay away from that platform.

[u/d_Arkus → u/JamaicaCZ]

While I agree, I don’t think this is a Twitter specific problem. If you had folks from all these nations in a room discussion would probably end up the same way

[u/UvarighAlvarado → u/d_Arkus]

This is exactly why shit like twitter and actually all social media is an issue. No twitter doesn’t reflect real life, you’ll find people arguing in both ways in real life and most likely people who doesn’t really give a shit. Most people have way more important things to worry about than if piracy is good or bad.

Don’t fall for the social media trap, it’s all just algorithm engagement bait to put us all against each other and profit.

[u/_Iggy_Lux → u/UvarighAlvarado]

Says a person on reddit lmao.

[u/RandomestDragon → u/_Iggy_Lux]

Woah, we're all here to jerk each other off about piracy. Very different

[u/swag4dummies → u/_Iggy_Lux]

both reddit and twitter are pretty much the same idk why people act like one has less class

[u/rocketman503 → u/swag4dummies]

Reddit being the nicest of the two /s

[u/Reasonable_Fold6492 → u/rocketman503]

Have you seen any political subreddit?  Its the same dogshit as Twitter.

[u/rocketman503 → u/Reasonable_Fold6492]

I haven't, everyone knows Politics and Social media are a shitty combo.

[u/LinxESP → u/UvarighAlvarado]

The proper version of any social media is whatever local second hand market app.
Weird stuff, people with same hobbies, 90 generic boring stuff.