average person uses x and when you tell them that x stands for everything wrong with the world they just say something like “yeah but Joe Schlimblio posts on x and I follow them”
The usage of twitter was never as high as other social medias in Europe (and I presume other parts of the globe too).
Looking at statista; it seems the main perpetrators are the US and Japan, (30% and 56% of the relative populations).
From what I can tell (or be bothered to check); Japan is the only country with over half the population on X. Therefore making the sentence 'the average Japanese person uses X, to be true.
On a tangent, I wonder what Japanese X is like; is it just a sea of hand drawn tentacle based erotica, and is the source of the countries porn? Or does it see the same types of nationalism drives that western X does? Is Grok rewriting Japanese empire war crimes?.. There’s a whole world on there we’re not privvy too.
Here in Japan, I used to use it to follow up and coming Japanese illustrators and webcomic artists, most of who tweeted fun, non-political, wholesome things. I got live updates whenever we had typhoons and earthquakes.
Obviously there’s toxicity if you look for it, but I didn’t really see it. Which is why I honestly didn’t understand why so many people shit in Twitter especially on “tech/bologicallysocially-aware” circles like Reddit calling it toxic. The reason why I stopped was because Musk bought it, not because of the content I was seeing. Maybe I was just lucky.
Note: This is just a single old man’s anecdote, so please take it with a huge grain of salt.
average person uses x and when you tell them that x stands for everything wrong with the world they just say something like “yeah but Joe Schlimblio posts on x and I follow them”
Average *Japanese person.
The usage of twitter was never as high as other social medias in Europe (and I presume other parts of the globe too).
Looking at statista; it seems the main perpetrators are the US and Japan, (30% and 56% of the relative populations).
From what I can tell (or be bothered to check); Japan is the only country with over half the population on X. Therefore making the sentence 'the average Japanese person uses X, to be true.
On a tangent, I wonder what Japanese X is like; is it just a sea of hand drawn tentacle based erotica, and is the source of the countries porn? Or does it see the same types of nationalism drives that western X does? Is Grok rewriting Japanese empire war crimes?.. There’s a whole world on there we’re not privvy too.
Here in Japan, I used to use it to follow up and coming Japanese illustrators and webcomic artists, most of who tweeted fun, non-political, wholesome things. I got live updates whenever we had typhoons and earthquakes.
Obviously there’s toxicity if you look for it, but I didn’t really see it. Which is why I honestly didn’t understand why so many people shit in Twitter especially on “tech/bologicallysocially-aware” circles like Reddit calling it toxic. The reason why I stopped was because Musk bought it, not because of the content I was seeing. Maybe I was just lucky.
Note: This is just a single old man’s anecdote, so please take it with a huge grain of salt.