Honestly now: does anybody actually like that style of emojis/avatars? They create a strong negative reaction in me but I am not sure why.
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They perfectly illustrate the Corporate Mindset. I like to imagine they were designed by a conclave of neurotypical and painfully unfunny and uncreative MBAs who got together in a coworking space and brainstormed the most consensual and least offensive avatar tech they could fathom. Likely none of them ever had a passing thought about what makes for compelling character design. Certainly none of them can stomach the idea of emergent phenomenon in communication. And above all nothing must stick out; to them the idea that users would want to make a non-human, cyborg, furry, green-skinned, or whatever avatar is abhorrent. Jane's quirky facial expression is the full extent of allowable creativity (and even then you know they had a 30 minute debate about including it).
These avatars do a better job of inspiring dread in me than half the shit in Severance.
Tangentially, it reminds me of when we went from Geocities/MySpace/custom reddit CSS/custom youtube pages to "you can change your PP and banner". ..... okay? Was a unified design language really worth crushing all visual creativity?
... and now I think it's a shame that Lemmy and Mastodon's default clients don't support (AFAIK) custom CSS for communities/user pages. I think that would be very iconic for the Free Web. Is someone working on this? I feel like someone should be working on this.
It's like the Corporate Memphis of emojis.
I'm really glad that I discovered the phrase Corporate Memphis, because it works really well as an out of context pejorative. E.g.
"Ugh, that's so Corporate Memphis"
That could refer to something that isn't at all like the corporate Memphis art style in a literal sense, but has all of the vibes.
Damn that was on point. Thank you for reminding me what I miss about the old web.
They are a fake as the people who use them?
They look like they're designed for young children
They’re made to be inoffensive and generic, in a way that shelters companies from being sued.
The first one will add "Thought leader of the dark enlightement" the moment she gets a backlash for her AI art.
And at the other extreme, the guy with a 10 year old photo who never logs in, listed as "software engineer".
Who has enough experience and knowledge to rebuild a social network.
But the wisdom not to do so.
Meanwhile I rarely tell about my skills to anyone. I would rather make them find out and be intrigued.
Also as you could tell I am unemployed.
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We had to fill out a "personal biography" at work a couple years ago. Under "Thing I'm Most Proud of" I put "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006".
We had to fill out a “personal biography” at work
What reasoning did mgmt give for this? I'm weirded out
Oh, no reason. But I was called into my manager's office because I hadn't turned it in early. I told everyone around me that they were looking to cut employees by figuring out who could handle more jobs.
Under "Hobbies" I put "Privateering". Under "Fluent Languages" I put "None".
Haha, nice job helping your fellows cut thru the crap and protect themselves.
Unrelated but i remember being called into my managers office for not completing an "anonymous" survey (one of those where all the questions are how much your love your job) and when i asked "how do you know that?" She didn't have an answer. Eventually i filled it out larping as a bootlicker.
Corporate surveys are nakedly searching for exploitation avenues... Luckily corporate is also dumb as shit
People who were born in 2007 will be adults now. As we age, it will become a more rare achievement to have been "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006". What a weird thought.
That's a fun thing to put in your bio though. It's edgy enough to be clear that you were exasperated to have to fill out a bio, but not so much that it makes you seem like an asshole. Very wry
It's an arms race, it's all silly and I mostly have made the choice of not participating, even if it's definitely making my career harder, but if you are trying to participate, what else are you gonna do when everyone else is doing it I guess?
It's always some random Indian guy, "CEO and founder" of at least three "companies" that when you dig into them are basically hobbies, posting inane utterings like "I woke at 4am today and called my employee. He was still in bed so I fired him!"
They've probably never even had an employee.
I dunno what the fuck is going on in India. It's like they're running a cargo cult version of capitalism, hoping that typing mean nonsense like that will somehow make them rich further down the line.
As a Brit, it was probably our fault in the not too distant past.
India is especially notorious for their turbo-capitalism, but quite a few post-colonial countries have similar features in their society. The rich elite owns and controls the country, the working class struggles and the poor ones suffer. Government doesnt care to actually provide services for its citizens or better their lifes.
Used to run a discord server. Does that make me an experienced CEO too?
On LinkedIn that practically puts you on par with the CEO of Zoom.
I've seen people with " Evangelist" in their official job titles. I never asked any of them what that meant, like did they go around and talk at seminars or something? I have no idea.
That’s my understanding of it. They go around speaking on the product and extolling its virtues publicly and probably internally too.