Joelology: Get The Fuck Off My News Feed
THE RANT RETURN OF…THE ANGRY BLACK MAN!
I like Facebook.
There, I said it. Hate me all you want with your super-glorified Tumblr selves.
I like Facebook. That’s right. It makes it easy to connect to family and friends and allows you to keep contact with people; something that Facebook does not do. Sure, there’s several things I dislike: the drama caused by idiots when the whole structure of Facebook changes; the indirect Facebook statuses; my Mum wanting to use Facebook constantly…the list goes on and on.
But there’s one thing I will hate forever. I’m talking about the day until I die. What’s that? Facebook subscriptions. Guaranteed, I’ll be on my deathbed, with my kids and wife around me, I’ll be like: “I haven’t got much time. I love you all. But fuck Facebook subscriptions…fuck those attention…seeking…pricks…”
Facebook subscriptions have become a plague on Facebook. Can’t get anywhere without people whoring themselves out for subscriptions. It’s sad. It’s really, really sad. I once saw this dude, who posted a picture of this girl who had cancer. She had lost all her hair and everything—just been through chemotherapy, this dude said ‘LIKE IF YOU DON’T WANT HER TO DIE!’ Then in the comments, he posted: ‘SUBSCRIBE AND SHE WON’T DIE :)’. Like what the fuck? What kind of scumbag shit is that? What, do you hold the cure to cancer? Do you have her locked up somewhere, tied to some mechanic monstrosity that will kill her if people don’t follow? You have her ready to die as if this was SAW? People subscribed to the guy. People actually did it. As if he did have the cure to cancer. As if he wasn’t going to let her die.
These Facebook ‘internet’ stars are in the same boat as that idiot Chuckie on Twitter and his friends. They’re attention seeking fucks. They’re most probably only famous on the internet and not at all that popular in actual life. I maintain the strong belief that they are not loved by their parents and they’re constantly bullied by everyone around them. Not that that’s okay, because bullying sucks. The combination of these types of things makes me want to keep these fuckers from appearing in my news feed. But I can’t. It’s impossible. As soon as someone likes a photo or one of them ‘LIKE IF [insert thing that everyone does]’, it’s up on my news feed. It doesn’t stop here.
There’s this girl, who goes to my college. She is pretty big on here…or something. She has a massive following of some sorts on Facebook. When I say massive, I’m talking something cult like. She has nearly 20,000 subscribers and owns her own clothing line (or something that resembles a poor attempt at a clothing line). She pops up on my news feed EVERY WEEK without fail. Why? Because she’s friends with several of my friends and so on. They like her photos and they’re just ordinary photos. You know the ones? When the girl is just standing in the mirror in different clothes, with the same damn facial expression and different clothes. And she posts photos of her boyfriend (who suspiciously looks like a chino wanker, but we’ll not focus on him). I admit, I followed her on Twitter and here on Tumblr. I don’t any more…became too annoying…
How did she get nearly 20,000 subscribers? Well, she’s a…model…I think? Oh and she’s TUMBLAR FAMOUZ too. So basically, her followers have imported themselves onto her Facebook page. When you see her photos pop up on my newsfeed, they have a ridiculous amount of likes. Over 100. What’s worrying and annoying about these things is that they worship her like a God. I kid you not, the girl has a drawing made by one of her ‘fans’. And it has over 1,000 likes on it. I’m sitting there like: “The fuck is this?” while trying to wonder what the fuck is wrong with some people.
That’s not admiration or being kind, that’s downright obsessive. If someone drew a picture of me, I’d freak out. It’s nothjust that. Everything that she does somehow manages to break the 100 like barrier. Guaranteed, I bet you she can just say: “meh.” and it’ll get 100 likes. Wait, I think she did say something like that and it got a 100 likes. It doesn’t stop there. It goes to Twitter. It goes to Tumblr. It pretty much goes everywhere. You know when I said that they worship her like a God? Yeah, people get all freaky. “OH MY GOD [insert person’s name here] FOLLOWED ME!” “OH MY GOD, SHE SAID HI!” It’s like they are in the presence of a celebrity.
This clothing brand too. She took a shirt and drew a ying-yang sign on it, and people are liking that shit up. I’m sure she’ll turn it into an actual shirt, but if the t-shirt game is that easy…give me t-shirt templates and I’ll work my photoshop wizardry on that shit. But this whole Facebook subscriber thing…I had a friend who called her out on her bullshit, and then he had her followers on his tail on here. So for that reason, I guess I better stop talking about her before they plot to assassinate me like I’m some new version of Martin Luther King. Can you imagine that? Me being the new Martin Luther King? “I have a dream…I have a dream that Facebook subscriptions would not exist! I have a dream that people on Twitter would not be exploited!”. People say she’s dull, but I can’t really form an opinion on her like that. I’m sure she’s a kind person, but goddamn, this whole picture thing is fucking annoying. If you’re reading this: ‘sup.
And I’m just using her as an example. There’s tons of people who pollute my news feed. Dudes who copy images from HpLyrikz and KushandWizdom and shit like that in an attempt to get their name out there…even though they do nothing. I can’t really blame them though. If they’re making money from people’s stupidity, then so be it. Isn’t what most of the business world is built on? They’re basically like the Drake’s of the social networking universe: they target the emotions of teenage girls and boys who are trying to make themselves seem friendlier to females.
I know on Twitter that there’s this dude who’s called IPlagarizeTweets or some ridiculous thing like that — the dude plagiarises tweets and he gets paid. If I had the opprtunity to get paid for tweeting, I’d take it. I’d avoid all the crappy promotions. There’s another thing: the promotions. It’s almost Twitter like on Facebook. People promoting their friends to help them get to 10k and everything.
Guaran-damn-teed though, these people would not even reach the status of ‘internet fame’ if they looked somewhat average or if they were not swagged the fuck out. These dudes are basically the kids in your college that have iPhones, wear chinos, constantly take photos of themselves in Instagram and so on.
I can’t stop these people from polluting my Facebook. I really don’t want to deactivate my Facebook account for something as small—well not exactly small, but something that isn’t really as problematic—-well, exactly—you know what, forget it. Basically, I’m not deactivating my Facebook account. I’m going to be ignorant. Either these fuckers stop it or they can fuck off somewhere else. I’m tired. Fie-fi-fo-fum boy do I hate these Facebook subscribing scum. I’m real tired of these people. Mark Zuckerberg, you fucked up. You fucked up big time. And I’m not talking about your marriage. You gave power to the dumbasses of the social networking world. Why? Why did you have to do it?
Anyway, in short: fuck Facebook subscriptions and the attention seeking fuckers that use and abuse it.
If you have a problem with what I just wrote then fuck you go ahead, tell me about it. Otherwise, I’m done. Thank you all for reading. Joelology class finished.

