God fucking damnit the paperclip thing has spread to peoples discord pfps

@lily what is it even about

@chjara something something change your pfp to clippit and open ai will kill itself

Its supposed to be a "protest against AI"

@lily the best protests are the ones that do literally nothing

@chjara @lily stated intention is as a symbol of awareness of enshittification and anti-consumer practices

something along the lines of “clippy never tried to extort you. clippy never sold you something and then took it back. clippy never changed the terms. clippy wasn’t very good, but he was just trying to help.”

and “change your profile picture to a clippy”, to show that you want a world where the products are just trying to help and aren’t trying to screw you over in every way possible.

@lily @chjara the idea that, if widespread enough, the execs at the big companies will see all the clippies, know why everyone has a clippy profile picture, and see that everyone Knows about the Practices.

it’s easy to shove aside and ignore because you think only a minority of your customers care about their rights. the idea is that it’s harder to keep pushing that bullshit if everyone is showing the symbol communicating that They Know ™

@sodiboo @chjara all the people doing it don't seem to realize that nobody is going to give a fuck that you changed the jpeg you represent yourself with

@lily @sodiboo @chjara exactly
i don’t know why people keep defending rossmann lmao
i wish they’d all actually do something about it like i dunno maybe supporting free software so it can continue to be developed

@tauon @lily @chjara changing your profile picture to a clippy is not mutually exclusive with supporting free software. changing your profile picture to a clippy does not take up valuable time that should’ve been better spent doing something else.

@sodiboo @lily @chjara i never said that, what i said was everyone doing it treats it like it’s the coolest thing in the world when in reality it doesn’t achieve anything. i’ve also noticed a lot of clippy avis are misogynistic, and they also act like it enlightens you somehow (“you’re a clippy avi, you should know better”)

@tauon @lily @chjara

i never said that

you know what this is true. my bad. my brain inserted the word “instead” into your sentence when that literally wasn’t there. reading comprehension moment

@sodiboo @lily @chjara you admitted it though so you’re better than 90% of people

@tauon @lily @chjara yay im better

@sodiboo @tauon @lily @chjara the merit or unmerit of changing your profile picture to a clippy aside i think the video was pretty funny, like that part when he just went

But for us to truly win, we need to show that if you push us, Clippy. Clips. Back.

🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

@kimapr @sodiboo @lily @chjara no it’s so funny they literally act like those scp discord servers

@sodiboo @tauon @lily @chjara sodi is the best

@sodiboo @lily @chjara clippy is probably the worst symbol to use for it tbh

he was introduced at a time when microsoft was using their position as the pc os vendor monopolist to dictate how the web was going to be run

similarly they also had a market dominating position on office products with microsoft office at that point. it was also continuously expanded with more and more Junk that nobody uses to justify more upgrades (=costs for the user)

clippy was one of those additions. ostensibly added to assist with navigating the mess microsoft has created. nobody wanted it. it also didn’t work well. it was considered annoying and people mainly wanted it gone

the main difference is that yes it didn’t spy on you and sell that data to microsoft, but that would have just not been feasible back then. the reason why pervasive data collection and phoning home with it became a thing is the proliferation of always-available high speed internet connections nobody would mind a couple hundred kilobytes being used of. the 90s were just way too early for that.