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Twitter Layoffs Probably Needed to Happen, But in a Better Way

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0:00 change that you know we can Implement something in Twitter what would your Implement be keep the nudity I'd say use all the words you want oh like like so like no like letter cap or anything like that uh yo uh you're not gonna use the words the slur like a ████ a slur or something that's like a Chinese person what would it be like I don't know dude hey hey buddy I don't ████ know guys [Music] oh we brought up this topic not too long ago but we gotta keep on keeping the updates on it let's keep on keeping on more updates the largest and impactful social takeovers or corporate takeovers that we've experienced I think I know what this is there's more there's more

0:52 I just tell you right now please that when Elon took it over I had the best time on Twitter in a long time it was so fun watching everything go down it was it was I don't know if you guys were there but I was there were there on Twitter No I was there sorry to be a party pooper but who uses Twitter dude am I tripping I've never used but who's on Twitter my guy Paul [Laughter] political ████ talking and drama that s███'s great that s███'s when they start battling that ████ out that's awesome um stocks really yeah stocks but but but like but

1:44 not like we're all like not convinced like oh ring okay never mind you're like that ████ uh but there's com there's comics on there they're funny yeah but okay I think like Twitter is a space where you just say whatever the ████ you want that you can't say anywhere you sound like Twitter to me sounds like the douchebag at the bar I feel like people are just crying they're just like talking about oh yeah oh God he's lying I haven't been on it in like three four years though I haven't done it three four years yeah we don't have to talk about this a little more time no I want to talk about no no no no don't get me wrong I want to talk about this but I'm just telling you right now I don't know who the ████ I don't use Twitter so I didn't really like everyone he's like took over I'm like I don't ████ what apps do you use what what social there's a thing called PornHub and let me tell you something uses MapQuest dude and only fans I'm an Instagram that's it Instagram is awesome I don't even do

2:34 ████ I'm trying to do Tick Tock but it's like I just feel so cheesy I feel like I'm 30 32 what the ████ am I doing on Tick Tock are you see me right there ████ I'm like a decade older than you really almost no I could tell the thing is no but uh no how old you got that old holiday yeah you're 40 dude almost couple years you look great though thank you you guys Asian got that skin you know what I mean you got that look Asian don't raise them no I took about 10 years in a crowd cryogenic chamber and I didn't really age much because of that reason the crypto cryogenic the crypto I spent it I use cryptocurrency to keep

3:24 young they look great dude you look great you look young long hair I feel like you were transitioning but I don't know what's going on yeah I'm right in the middle yeah so Elon Musk has been laying off thousands of employees thousands I believe uh half 3 700 ish employees what's his boss move though that's boss move why does this feel so satisfying yeah it is what he did he ████ as a businessman he showed over there and showed he showed his ████ privates to everybody you know I got big dick out here he does have a big big dick energy right there why is it funny when I when a tech company has layoffs but nothing else like if if you heard this like a coal mining company had layoffs everyone's like oh that's so sad and you feel like ████ these guys yeah we're like our Factory you're like all these car facts but Union guys get ████ gradu

4:14 they get a lot of money they make a lot of money they're sweating though but I'll tell you this this is what I don't feel for the Twitter people is because I don't know what it takes for like we don't know how many people yeah we don't have work to create Twitter to me it's like it's like a nerd at a ████ basement like but it obviously it's more people than that but we don't know because on computers the custom miners we're like oh yeah we physically know there's something yeah you you imagine a guy ████ sweating away hitting at a ████ Stone and ████ you know and then they're just like this get lung cancer and ████ that's what you picture right yes and then like when you think of a tech company you think all of these nerds that are just wasting time at the ████ they're at the they're at the Google headquarters eating food and just doing nothing that's what you mean that's what I'm picturing and then when they get laid off you're like ████ that's right and to be fair okay

5:06 nerd elon's been justifying in his stance because he says that the social media service was losing over four million dollars a day a day numbers guy yeah he's a number guy he's like why do we need you what do you do clean the house get the ████ out of here what do you do you know so I like that about everyone on his board actually was let go so he's technically the only single individual on the entire Twitter board right now that's what's up because it seems like the way he wants to run Twitter he needs just New Vision he needs new people to run it with him right and he needs it to make sense and he's wrong with money it's a business yeah but didn't he say he's gonna do a subscription platform for Twitter so he's turning the blue check of verification to eight dollars a month okay yeah that's good that's nice 60 200 but what is that ████ a year

5:57 right but and the thing is hey to have a blue check mark yeah if you have a blue check where you're gonna pay for that it's like an eight dollar subscription a month or or something because before he believed that the concept of and how they're handing out verifications was very like high class versus lower class the people who deserved it the people who got it to be whatever right whereas his biggest thing and his understanding of the biggest thing is all other than the fact that it's a business that needs to make sense to make money is also the fact that uh there's Bots and there's spam and if people have to pay for the verification then they're automatically like you know being like these are the people that are real and then also in the service for paying eight dollars a month your replies your mentions your everything you get the priority in terms of like comments and stuff so your actual you know dialogue or conversations with people who are verified are able to push like the spot you're trying to make up that four

6:47 million yeah yeah I don't think eight mil is that bad if you're running a business through Twitter yeah I heard something recently that there was like a penalty fee or something for firing somebody on Twitter what do you mean uh it was like it was like 200 something 200 no no like 200 000. either 200 000 or 200 million that he has to like pay two for like firing people because like it was written in their contract that if they get fired well it might be you might be talking about severance pay so like laying people off means that they still have Severance and stuff like that and he's offering three months of severance pay which he says is 50 more than is legally required wow so he's good but there isn't there is a lawsuit that a couple of the board members and different people are still putting together as a kind of you know they're he paid out the CEO too like like 20 mil or something oh yeah maybe

7:39 that was the thing I was saying oh okay maybe maybe that was maybe maybe not yeah I don't know I don't know I when you hear the word layoffs like you think oh so shady right but then also the way that major like big companies form is there's a lot of waste there's a lot of people that get hired just because they need to beef up a department or this department needs to like spend in order to keep that budget so they're like what are we gonna do with the money well ████ I don't know do you need an assistant all right get three assistants like they do ████ like that and then you do pointless work and then maybe you want to keep your job so you have to justify your position and your job might be redundant there might be five positions that do the same thing when it only takes half of a position but they don't want to lose their jobs right so then they make up work this ████ happens all the time in companies and then so like there's also um yes there's exploitation

8:30 coming from you know the top end but there's also the groups that go in and and do a lot of corporate waste like spending and all that too so then all this ████ has to be continuously running business talk it's just talk with Joe there's like a lot that that should be not be that we shouldn't be spending on but they have to spend and if they don't spend like schools if they don't spend that budget they lose it because they go oh that's true you don't need that money look at how much money you save this year so then they're like oh no no we're gonna need that money for next year because no you don't he goes well let me show you how much I need it and they'll buy all these chairs that they don't need because they're like see we had to buy you want to keep that money yeah yeah that makes sense but it makes sense for the the people that want to keep the money too because what if they want to spend that next year or whatever right

9:21 it's like so there's all these games going on and it's not as simple as like hey he's this ████ up dude firing people because I like to protect billionaires because one day I like to be one but yeah you got billionaire Vibes right now you got a little ████ Golf Club you're talking money this is very possible CEO boss moves right now I just like to pretend like I'm successful already when I'm really not even got the sandals too did he really oh douchebag sandals oh no oh no oh no do I look like a technical company to squat on the chair oh my God you're so see you all right now dude it's not even funny dude ponytail go you gotta let your hair yeah slow motion though yeah you gotta let your hair flow yeah it can just be like nice in it so let's talk numbers you gotta show up and be like let's talk numbers like you don't care you're doing something else you're putting like because you guys are

10:11 Visionary so I got this idea for like eco-friendly fully organic like microchip and like yeah can we put it in our brains man show down dude we're gonna put in a thousand monkeys first imagine it's like we got to put on someone's brain forced monkeys though so like we got him organic and they're we got them organic farm-raised monkeys so uh what's the positive side about this about him taking over Twitter yeah what's the positive what are we hoping the new vision of Twitter Road flag of the vision for him was to make it truly a place of freedom of speech uh and and the kind of digital townhouse some people don't like that though some people don't like how he's like is it actually freedom of speech if a billionaire is coming in and running

11:01 everything and then some people are like I liked it when it was before because they believe that people shouldn't have a platform um that are in their eyes extreme because they're like now you're letting them build a following and get a voice but it's it's it's it's a real weird gray area because then according to control what a guy can do yeah yeah who would need to control is the whole point that's exactly right because that's that's kind of like why do you get to gatekeep who gets to speak and then if they don't match with what you believe then they're the wrong ones automatically so it's like I don't know slippery slope I don't like control dude okay yeah what's new updates with Twitter other than the fact that he just fired half of the people when he's talking about how they're losing four million dollars a day and the fact that Diddy also was one of the people that gave him 10 million dollars to help

11:52 purchase the thing really yeah does he get a a piece yeah he gets PC it literally Equity 10 million off of 44 billion he's got like 0.0 ████ one four percent zero zero but being having to see at the tables having a seat at the table right like when you're making moves like that so he bought it completely right so that means that he had to fundraise for it a lot obviously at 44 billion just give me a little square dude because even one of the biggest owners of Twitter I would say a third he would he was little over a third of the ownership of Twitter and it's a Saudi Arabian billionaire yeah and one of the issues was like hey this is an American platform and because it's an American platform or like it's it can affect American politics you have a Saudi Arabian guy that might be a uh

12:42 pushing his agenda on to the or who knows right and so that's one of the things they're saying is like hey um if we're gonna uh we're gonna buy this ████ we gotta make it American that's one of the things they were talking about this guy gets political doesn't he I ████ like it dude I'm always waiting for it to still connect to Field of Japan though like if it doesn't get there I'm like man we didn't go deep down it's like the reason s American companies since the ████ 1880s right were in competition with Japan yeah like that's that's where I'm hooked it's gonna be a weird ████ high buddy you just ████ start talking into government that's how we're ████ controlled okay so if we all had it a change that you know we can Implement something in Twitter what would your Implement be I'm gonna opt out of this one because I've never used it keep the nudity or they are they gonna take that out no

13:33 just kidding I don't know what I don't know enough about Twitter oh yeah I actually use all the words you want yeah I feel like the freedom of speech stuff like all like like so like no like letter cap or anything like that like you were like I mean that's use the words you want like if somebody says like uh uh yo uh you're not gonna use the words slur like a slur or something that's like a Chinese person what would it be like I don't know dude dude hey hey buddy you're putting me in that corner I don't ████ like it dude I don't like control I don't like your controlling me and I don't like it dude I'll just turn off the video are we on Hotsy right now

14:24 it's getting hot as ████ here you call me muffin ears dude laughs

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