rant · moment 10 of 12
Digital Real Estate, Freeing Prisoners in Video Games, and Twitter's Subscription Future
from #242 - You're Money Now | The Tim Dillon Show · #242
8 min
He riffs on digital real estate in games like Decentraland, jokes about freeing digital prisoners as a substitute for real activism, and discusses Twitter's shift toward a Patreon-style subscription model and its purge of accounts.
- Twitter is becoming a Patreon-style platform where users pay $5/month to see special VIP tweets from creators.
- Tim argues that paying for exclusive tweets will inevitably become a vehicle for racism and slurs disguised as special content.
- Disney is using AI to identify problematic content in films and adding disclaimers before movies like Gone with the Wind and Aladdin.
- Tim questions whether genies and magic carpets in Aladdin are actually harmful stereotypes, noting Arabs would probably prefer those to post-9/11 alternatives.
- The Jungle Book, Dumbo, and Aladdin all require new Disney content warnings for negative cultural depictions.
- Tim compares Mowgli's character favorably to other children's characters, calling him cool for living in the jungle with a bear rather than being a pasty British kid eating candy.
- Dr. Seuss books are being removed partly because the Grinch was supposedly Jewish, with the character's name being Barry Cohen.
- Tim promotes his tour dates and expresses enthusiasm for non-fungible tokens as a legitimate way to support artists.
- Tim sarcastically celebrates billionaires selling GIFs of themselves dancing and people blowing up spaceships while others live in poverty.
- Tim's closing advice: buy real estate in the game online and free the people in the prison online.
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