Twitter (X) is a farce
I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. Even before Elon Musk bought it with foreign investor money it was a bit of a cesspool and I avoided having an account for years. However, there are still many good journalists, comedians, and forward-thinking users to engage with. I also decided it would be worth my time to promote some of my musical albums while engaging in political & social discussions while also practicing some comedy writing from time to time.
I tend to write parody lyrics, it’s a habit I started to develop with my old choir friend Kehl way back in 1980. We’d mangle the lyrics to songs we both knew then laugh ourselves silly. It’s a habit that served me fairly well from time to time when I was working for KWHL radio in Anchorage, Alaska in the 90s.
Well, today that habit got me removed from Twitter for - according to them — violating their rules against “violent speech.” I appealed the suspension of my account and received this reply:
Here is the post that got me in trouble.
Can you see my frustration with this situation?
There is nothing that irks me more than being accused of something I didn’t do.
I was not making violent threats. I was writing parody lyrics related to Chucky using part of Sheerhan’s song “The Shape of You.” But I guess the AI that runs X/Twitter at this point doesn’t understand humor. It also happens to be Halloween season! What a ridiculous synchronicity.
If a real human made the choice to suspend my account based on parody lyrics? Then I would argue that person is too stupid to be allowed to continue making choices like that.
See y’all on Tribel or Facebook, I guess.
