Listen guys, the only thing that matters is the Internet Historian video that will come out covering this twitter shit in 3 years.

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.

Everyone who cares about politics and hates Trump thinks Twitter is dying. Everyone else is having fun.

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"

I like how twitter just removed politics in my trending page

twitter cant get any worse IMO, its already a cesspool of the most toxic humans ever

People are so desperate for twitter to fail but my experience from 3 months ago to now has literally not changed at all.

Im still waiting for Act Man to tell me what the problem was.

"This tanked their stock" -price drops 5% XD

When he said fired and brought back I thought he meant Ligma Johnson. That shit was hilarious

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

twitter was killing itself perfectly fine without elons help. he might just be the final nail or he might pheonix it... even money

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

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.

People forget that twitter was losing tons of money before Elon bought it.

I think everything is ganna be alright with or without Twitter and a bunch of arm chair experts will fill in the gaps.

If your team isn't running it, then it's gotta be dying, right?

I dont think its downhill at all i think people are just upset that their echochamber is dying

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.

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.

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'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

What I love the most about asmond is that he will watch every ad in a KZfaq video

"Take a couple heads publicly, everyone starts following the rules" I meann ya not wrong tho 😂

“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.

As a guy who hates using Twitter, the change of the main Twitter page to the Trending page alone let me start using it.

If Elon straight up deleted Twitter the day he acquired it, it would have been improvement of the situation.

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.

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.

10:55 He didn't make those companies. He bought those companies.

The thumbnail is a perfect representation of how to lose your pointer finger while firing a semi-auto lol

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 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.

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.

the firing, then re-hiring of people can also be done in smart way because it allows the renegotiation of contracts on re-hire

This man would be surprised at the amount inventions and successful businesses were a result of someone "just wingin it".

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

10:54 Charlie has a incredible timing his response is gold .

their stocks should tank, theyre literally putting profit over lives.

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

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)

Not a musk fan, but it's a common tactic to just shotgun out a bunch of ideas and throw money at them until you find a winner. It's an effective way to make money if you already have a ton of money.

I wish we had more platforms. But it’s like Asmon always says, people only play if other people are playing

twitter has always been just the worst

He's not killing it,he's cleaning it.Thank f..k

Playing the bfv song during a warthunder ad. Classic

Saw the title and instantly just thought "I see this as an absolute win."

People dont understand that failing is a good thing and people that succeed the most have also failed the most.

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.

Lmao people thinking Elon made tesla when he actually just strong armed his way in and then retroactively named himself founder

It's the "wow" during the war ad that got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Remember when Actman's crusade against QuantumTV failed?

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. KZfaq 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.

I only see a win/win here. Either he destroys an objectively terrible platform or he improves it.

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.

How tf do you go your entire life without changing your own oil? It's like a 15 minute job on most cars.

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.

I've been watching these reacts from time to time, but now you got a sub. You are resonable dude

I think it was a bring back because one of em said that he had locked other accounts on the way out

Also, Asmogold, I love that you acknowledge that just because a concept is a law that it doesn't therefore mean it is right. Amen.

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.

Twitter is working great on my end.

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.

It's about time to go play lost ark, just got past the big battle, Got to figure out what to do now. I think I've got to figure out how to do engravings.

Twitter experience has been the same. Maybe more responsive for app. Chaos is rabid people freaking out about their loss of a biased platform

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

I generally like the act man but he is pretty clueless this time around.

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

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.

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!

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.

I'm not all for chaos though I do understand how necessary it can sometimes be but that insulin thing I so much agree with and more examples like that needs to happen again!

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

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.

new vod with the twitter files?

A different billionaire owns a massive media company. Asmongold: "chaos!"

I feel like Actman gathered all the bad takes about the twitter situation and put them in one video

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.

Did he really use the battlefield theme for a War Thunder advertisement?

Too many people who think they know how to run multibillion dollar companies criticizing a person who runs two multibillion dollar companies.

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.

This didn't age well

36:10 so many people mix things up, its ok to not agree with a law, but that doesnt mean you can just completely ignore that law and not follow it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the price of insulin high so that the insurance will have to cover 100% of it? Which means everyone is forced to get med insurance if they need insulin.

Twitter can go away forever today and I wouldn't even notice or care.

You can easily tell what side KZfaqrs are on by weather they say Twitter has become 'objectively' worse or 'objectively' better.

busy thinking bout my dial up days with age of empires

This video aged like milk. I hate to say it but asmongold is right again

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.

We were teased the other day with him saying he was about to watch the Legal Eagle Twitter video, but then we never got a reaction to that one. What gives?

ehhh nfl head coaches do actually write most/some of the plays, just in conjunction with the offensive/defensive coordinator, and then those coordinators call said plays during the game based on situational football and statistics

Act man clearly forgot about the final battle on battleship 2012 lols 😂

You were so right about the averts. They came flying back before we knew it. People get so caught up in the newest headline

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.

It's funny he's saying calm down however he's the one waving his arms like he's a crazy person which needs to calm down because he doesn't like what he hears.

30:18 the thing about twitter handles is it's a Schrodinger's statement. It means any specific thing the person stating it needs it to mean when it's observed by others trying to interact with that statement. It's ambiguity is by design, it seeming specific after the fact is a rhetorical trick.

This guy who Asmongold is watching is like reddit in person.

39:45 "Is that a bad thing though?" Well, yes, it can be. The quote "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" exists for a reason.

Honestly I don't what's good or not but I do believe it could have been handled better

I agree with the reasoning that advertisers go where the people are, but the problem is Twitter does not actually have that many people. It's big, but even Snapchat is bigger.