Weekly Internet Roundup 10/28/22: Elon Gets Twitter, Kanye Gets Dropped, and Nobody Likes Wives or Girlfriends

Happy Friday. If you're reading this, congratulations: you've made it to the end of another working week filled all the drama created and feasted upon by the technological behemoth that rules our lives, otherwise known as the internet. It can be hard to sort the garbage everybody is talking about from the garbage that is just floating around distracting us, so we've decided to give a little summary to keep you up to date. Trust me, you'll need it.

Elon Musk🤝Downfall of Twitter as We Know It

RIP to a not especially real one, as the world's most desperate to be cool billionaire finally takes control of Twitter. Elon Musk confirmed that he was now holding the reigns of the social media platform with a couple of cryptic tweets, and a cringey stunt in which he acted out the Let That Sink In meme in Twitter HQ.  

Needless to say, not everyone was pleased with these developments. For starters, it quickly became apparent that Elon was intent on clearing house — he soon had Tesla engineers locking Twitter employees out of their own code, and started sacking the likes of CEO Parag Agrawal, and head of legal policy Vijaya Gadde, who spearheaded the suspension of Donald Trump's account. Plus, many of their users were not happy with their new overlord. Maybe it is time for that long-awaited Tumblr resurgence, after all. 

Stay-at-Home Girlfriend Is Not a Flex

As if the rise of the tradwife wasn't bleak enough, now she has a lifestyle influencer friendly counterpart. We've spent a lot of time in the cursed decade that is the 2020s being shown how happy and fulfilled women are when they devote their life to doing chores, caring for men, and posting about it. However, not everybody is a fan. After stay-at-home girlfriend TikToker @kendelkay gained attention for her hypnotizing day-in-the-life videos, it kickstarted a full-blown discourse cycle about this style of living. Politics aside, there's no denying that it looks like an extremely boring way to live. 

Ye Continues Fall From Grace

Even the most diehard Kanye West stans have increasingly struggled to defend the A-lister's behavior over the past few years, and his actions lately have somehow manage to push them even further. His decision to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE [sic]” at the start of this month has not been going well for him, resulting in an Instagram ban (which he flouted) and suspension from Twitter (which was lifted once our old friend Elon was back in charge). To top it all off, Ye decided that in light of Adidas terminating his Yeezy deal, he was going to try and bring it to Skechers. Turning up at the LA office unannounced, he was escorted off the premises of the Jewish-owned business. Long story short, Hitler fandom is terrible. Who knew?

Married Couple Enjoys Each Other's Company? Impossible!

If your screen time report is something that could be the premise for a crappy boomer Facebook meme, chances are you can be defined by one of two things: you work in social media, or you're very lonely (or both!). While we can sympathize that this is a horrible predicament to be in, nobody should be taking this out on random people on the internet. 

Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened when @lilplantmami tweeted about enjoying a morning coffee with her husband in the garden. To anyone normal, this might seem pretty innocuous and wholesome. Unfortunately, though, there were plenty of weird Twitter users who were hellbent on telling her that this innocent interaction was terrible in ways that ranged from classism to daring to enjoy the company of her life partner. These people were eventually drowned out by voices of reason, but the sense of entitlement left its mark. Letting people enjoy things is a valid thing to do sometimes!

That concludes some of the main online talking points this week. Roll on next time, and whatever BS gets slung our way in the name of brain-numbing entertainment.