The article criticizes recent media coverage portraying Mark Zuckerberg as “cool” again based on his success with Threads and a shirtless photo he posted. The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife, and that Threads’ success is questionable given it is mostly used by journalists and brands. The author concludes that despite any business success, Zuckerberg’s role in Facebook’s issues make him unlikely to ever be truly “cool”, and urges journalists to stop describing him as experiencing a “Hot Zuck Summer”.
Gross
Wait who thought he was cool??
Pretty sure it’s just paid for media hype. This is just the pushback of journalists who were somehow convinced that people actually like zuck now, and/or were paid to drum up more drama around this to drive engagement. This happens a lot. It’s like the distant, braindead cousin of moral panics. I’m not sure what societal harm could come of this constant bickering about inconsequential “discourse” like this but it sure is annoying
I got you. https://archive.ph/lgBGz spoiler it’s the wsj
Compared to Musk everyone is cool.
Journalists
“Journalists”
smh my head
Lots of boomers and gen-x’ers
The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife
I would argue the author is a petty asshole.
“Look at this guy having a hobby, he’s probably in a mid life crisis and cheating on his wife haha”
There are so many valid criticisms of this guy, and equally many things you could say that’s not really a valid criticism but still kind of a good point. This is just bullshit and if anything distracting from all the things we should be criticizing him for.
I don’t find the zuck cool but i hate all the jokes of him being awkward and weird while he’s obviously in the spectrum. You can make fun of him for being evil and immoral but he didn’t choose to be like this.
In other news: Quest Pro just got canceled. That was the expensive headset loaded with R&D tech that was supposed to give you a preview of the future of Meta’s VR.
There’s a lot to legitimately criticize Zuckerberg about, but not ‘being cool’ for learning jujitsu isn’t one of them.
This article is so crass and petty that it completely undercuts the point of the immense social damage his forays into social media have caused. It comes off as exactly the kind of toxic bullshit that’s perpetuated on his platforms. We don’t need it.
The solution isn’t picking a new side and being childish, it’s being honest and thoughtful as we exercise our autonomy far away from tech bros with too much money and let them be as irrelevant as they ought to.
