Tuesday
15Jul2008
Idiocracy
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 11:40AM 
I watched IDIOCRACY when it first came out and thought it was ok. While I thought parts were funny, it felt over the top. Lately, I've come to change my opinion.
I'm not the kind of person that starts hating on something once it becomes popular. Everybody hates Myspace now because everyone is on it. I love Myspace because everyone is on. It's help create a second income for me by letting more people know how to get their hands on my sketchbook, art, etc. But there is a new thing happening that I can't figure out and it makes me believe that IDIOCRACY is here in a big way.
TWITTER. Are you fucking kidding me. People hang around on a site updating people on what they're doing. Well, I guess that's the intent of the site, but it seems that it's becoming somewhat of a forum/chat room thing. We've become so retarded that we've forgotten that we created things for that...FORUMS and CHAT ROOMS. Are you fucking kidding me.
I recently read about battle on twitter by fully grown men. I'm paraphrasing here, but it read something like this:
manchild01: You did stupid stuff, you are a stupid head!
iWouldKillmyselfifIcouldfindawebsitethatdiditforme69: you are stupider head...burn!
manchild01: Your head are totally more stupider than mine so burn that burnded face head.
iwouldkillmyselfificouldfindawebsitethatdiditforme69: Your head is the stupiderest head of all the stupidheads in the stupid world.
manchild01: You are being so childish, I'm done with this
manchild01: oh yeah...you're a stupid head...bye.
Seriously, I wish that was far off but it's not. I will state here, I will never be on Twitter. I can't bring myself to swallow that pill. No offense to those who choose to do it, I just don't quite understand it.
By the way, this is another piece done on my Cintiq. Still loving the shit out of it.
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Reader Comments (23)
The four people I know who use Twitter are blessedly losing interest. Better no blog posts than their Twitter ass scratchings.
Never heard of the site, after reading this Im not even curious.
I should be use to this by know, but I cant stand people who argue on the net from the comfort of there own home.
Thanks for the warning :D
Glad your diggin the Cintiq, Im half way to being able to getting one myself.
skottie,esta muy bueno el dibujo ,pasate por mi blog,te espero!!!
the J A R B 08
I am still begrudgingly coming to terms with admitting to people that I am on MySpace... I have a "grown-man" website, and that should be enough, right? It took me a while even to get on the blog scene. But as much as I do hate MySpace (with a passion), I have come to accept that it's a pretty valuable promotional tool. Twitter, on the other hand... when I first heard about it, I had the same reaction as you. And I'm holding strong to it. People are becoming more stupid with each passing day, and I refuse to join them.
yea I have to agree with all of that. By the way that Cintiq is fuckin awesome.
I hate Myspace solely because it's cluttered and slow...but that's because millions of people are on it. ah well. And Twitter seems to be the new "it" thing although I don't know if that's a good thing. Keep up the frequent posting. Good shit bro'.
Fuckin' A! I'm not on it, but I hardly understand Titter. I kept expecting it to be this fantastic vessle. But its not. Its like peaking at someone's text messages.
Big whoop.
On a sweeter note: Can't wait for Oz, Skottie! Looks hot.
That's amazing! I especially love the shirt that the guy has on. Though, i can't believe you didn't like Idiocracy, granted, the humor is kinda mediocre and really, most of the jokes only appeal to the people it's mocking. But the premise is just sheer genius.
fuck yeah skottie! I want more angry blogs!
While Twitter certainly could be used as status updates like: "Peeing." I much prefer the ones that go for the haikus or the short anecdotes. It's much better used for short witticisms than anything else.
Hey Skottie,
I've been on Twitter for a year and a half and think it's awesome. I only follow people if I'm interested in what they have to say. For example, I currently follow 81 people (all witty friends and colleagues), but I am followed by 2100 people (some I know, some I don't).
Obviously I don't follow anyone like the two losers you described in your blog post. But, that is a misconception about what Twitter is all about. What you read on Twitter completely depends on who you choose the follow.
Even if you're not interested in real-time updates of what your friends are doing or thinking about, Twitter can still be used as a priceless marketing tool. As soon as I post a video I've made, I link to it on Twitter and in a matter of minutes it's already been seen a few hundred times.
Seriously, don't discount the site... just unfollow anyone you find annoying.
And, if you do join... you can find me here, http://twitter.com/caseymckinnon If you write a message to me starting with @caseymckinnon , I'll follow you back. Unless you don't write anything interesting, in which case I'll totally unfollow your ass! :P
PS: BrianReed and Templesmith are both fucking hilarious, you should follow them for a good laugh.
I'm with Casey on this one, Skottie. I thought Twitter was lame until I realized you could use it to tell jokes. And a lot of people do, brilliantly. It's a frickin' comedy goldmine. I do not post about sandwiches I eat.
Definitely what Casey said -- if you think people aren't having those same types of conversations on MySpace comments, Facebook wall-to-wall, or on people's blogs, you're not paying attention to those things.
Twitter isn't what caused those people to start spouting those inanities -- sure, you could argue that the 140-character limit keeps people from expressing themselves in any meaningful way, but there are a ton of people on Twitter that not only express themselves really well and create compelling content that's worth following, they're actually using the brevity to get to the freakin' point instead of blathering endlessly.
Are these people the exception? Maybe. But then look at those Myspace pages that are filled with flying baloney (endless auto-playing YouTube embeds, flashing backgrounds, etc) and ask yourself if they're not the norm on Myspace, rather than the exception. Each of these tools is really what you make of it.
Ultimately if you're seeing a bunch of ridiculous crap on Twitter, UNSUBSCRIBE from that person's feed. If you keep following someone long after they've demonstrated they are an idiot, well, you're probably being a stupid head too.
Yea, everything Casey said...
And you shouldn't discount things you "just don't quite understand." If you don't understand it, how do you know it's crap? I didn't understand Twitter when I started using it. Now I love it. I can follow or un-follow anyone I want. How good Twitter is depends on me, not the other people on Twitter.
Try it, you'll like it.
In case you're wondering, I posted about this blog post on Twitter :P
Link: http://twitter.com/caseymckinnon/statuses/862246428" REL="nofollow">http://twitter.com/caseymckinnon/statuses/862246428
hahaha. I wondered why there was a Twitter brigade on here.
Look, I understand the site. Really. I just don't understand it's appeal. It's a site that I sign up for that allows me to read sentences and write sentences...short ones. It's just another site trying to distract me in a world of too many distractions. I am willing to bet that as much as I like some people, I could care less what they're "doing" or "thinking" at any given moment of the day. And I certainly don't think that I'm interesting enough to share the same with other people...and I'm insanely interesting...haha!
Thanks for sharing and getting involved over on my blog, really. I appreciate the banter.
No offense meant, Skottie, but the tenor of your original post (not helped by the drawing) was that Twitter makes you stupid. But what it really boils down to is that you don't want another attention sucker, and that's fine. I understand that.
I think what keeps getting on people's nerves when people take potshots at Twitter (and I'm not just speaking of your post...I've seen it quite a few times), it's that they don't simply say "This method of communication doesn't work for me". They invariably say something to the effect of "The people on Twitter are stupid and say stupid things, therefor Twitter will make YOU stupid too." And yeah, that kind of pisses me off.
haha, I never said people on twitter were stupid. The character..."CHARACTER" that I drew (based on a real fight I read abou) I created was made stupid by using it. LIke I said, it's silly to me. I can't help that. It's a silly site, just like others think blogs are silly. Let's not take this thing too personally people, it's a site that I'm talking about, not people on it. It's nothing more than an inspiration to make a funny picture. I"m not waging a war...haha.
haha, I never said people on twitter were stupid. The character..."CHARACTER" that I drew (based on a real fight I read abou) I created was made stupid by using it. LIke I said, it's silly to me. I can't help that. It's a silly site, just like others think blogs are silly. Let's not take this thing too personally people, it's a site that I'm talking about, not people on it. It's nothing more than an inspiration to make a funny picture. I"m not waging a war...haha.
No twitter?! Then how are we supposed to stalk you in complete internet fashion?
urm...i've never heard of the site before...i'm strickly a blogger, coz i get to see updates from my favourite artists work.
all that aside, love the drawing skottie! i can't wait till OZ comes out.
i am thinking of joining this new super cool site, it's called
my-face-twitter-space-book
hahahaa. that's good.
I seriously need a Cintiq! great job master