🌻 kiwi 🌻 @pareinoia@schelling.pt

made some origami ✨

water balloon, samurai hat, cicada, and a heart

okay I'm like 95% sure that the accounts with actually over-the-top tweets and GAN avis (like this one and Darla) are parodies and not actually run by Amazon

the "real" Amazon ones all have actual photos, regular shilling, etc

good on whoever's doing this though lol
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RT @erikhinton
This totally real Amazon employee has a totally real profile image and is not at all a GAN composite.
https://twitter.com/erikhinton/status/1376636650420203523

most people understand this in regards to smaller cultures, but there's sometimes this idea that larger cultures (e.g. American) are simply so omnipresent that there's no way you *don't* fully understand them, because surely you've passively absorbed all there is to know

then, of course, there are filter bubbles — where are you consuming content from? whose perspectives are you taking in, whose perspectives are you missing? how is this selection shaping your understanding of the culture?

one of the reasons for this is sampling bias — who's more likely to have internet access to begin with? to be extremely online? to frequent the same parts of the internet you do? who feels driven to write the content that you read?

the internet may be a never-before-seen treasure trove of information, but there's still a world of difference between the parts of a culture that are communicated online, and the parts that reside in day-to-day life. what you see here is not a microcosm but merely a facet

the internet really fools us into thinking that we can fully understand some foreign cultures by reading some tweets, visiting some websites, and talking to a highly curated group of people. that's not actually the case though

one of my favorite genres of tweets is extensive, overconfident cultural commentary from people on the complete opposite side of the world (about culture here, not there, obviously)

they're still going with this shit? I refuse to believe Amazon PR is truly this boneheaded. who ran the numbers on this and decided this would be profitable?? or breaking even, even?

fwiw, the accounts aren't exactly "fake" but warehouse workers being paid to shill. very poorly.
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RT @hungrybowtie
The sudden surge of *TOTALLY REAL AND NOT FAKE* Amazon employee📦™️ accounts created in March 2021, right after @amazonnews got owned for…
https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1376443792794902531

just wanna be here

sometimes unpopular opinions are unpopular for a good reason

post image of what it's like dating you
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RT @WeftOfSoul
Post image of what it's like dating you https://t.co/oZuhQnOGWV
https://twitter.com/WeftOfSoul/status/1376510669235879937

man I really fucking loved coming up with some weird-ass mnemonic devices