In my case I’ve hated Harry Potter, skinny jeans and Tesla long before that became popular to do.

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      It encourages hot takes over nuance, or awkward workarounds like replying to your own post a bunch of times if you actually have something to say.

      I still think it’s a terrible idea for something like that to be popular and have an important role in society, though its addition of images and video mitigate the problems a bit. I don’t know whether it significantly impacted the platform’s success and eventual sale price. $44B is a lot of money, so I can’t say it was a terrible decision from the perspective of its creators.

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      Promotes lazy thinking that can be expressed in 240 characters and makes expressing the better mind much more difficult