r/technology • u/NowThatsMalarkey • Feb 21 '25
Social Media Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover didn’t make people like him, study shows
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/mark-zuckerbergs-makeover-didnt-make-people-like-him-study-shows/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANAZlr-hGuhX1KqqPjBTkTce5FHYoTfozy456eW6cuu8YldzC5rpGfIlP07_a0jXdYc_eaaM6DrAXHX5G8e2xGc5SpbfTOxsJAwxR81w_TBGJlcjoLsVnZ8PWO1lNJgWgzm3MMz0BHDbCl-W5ehgrTueoJBD4LubB0aUd2ecJ39Y8.1k
u/elouangrimm Feb 21 '25
silicon valley midlife crises are hitting different these days
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u/IndubitablyNerdy Feb 21 '25
Sometime you bulk up and change looks, others you overthrow the government, to everyone their own I guess...
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u/Lostinthestarscape Feb 21 '25
Seems like Gender Affirming Testosterone shots are the rage for all of them though....
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u/OldJames47 Feb 21 '25
$100 Billion faux-pas on the Metaverse
It just blows my mind that they have so little to show for so much money. They could have made their own gpu to rival NVidia with that investment. They could have set up soup kitchens and fed the hungry with that investment. Instead we got Lawnmower Man.
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u/literalyfigurative Feb 21 '25
And avatars with no fucking legs.
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u/Ali_Gunningham Feb 21 '25
They have enough money to lift millions out of poverty and homelessness without materially affecting themselves but instead we get surfer Zuck.
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u/OldJames47 Feb 21 '25
To quote Dylan, "All the money you made will never buy back your soul."
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u/discussreunionmotto Feb 22 '25
Exactly. people really don't seem to understand this. We like to think so many problems "can't be solved by money." but actually, they can. Homelessness? gone. Hunger? gone. Healthcare? accessed. College? free. A single one of these billionaires could fix ALL OF THESE and NEVER EVEN NOTICE the money was gone. Am I saying that is necessarily the right way to approach these solutions? maybe not, but the fact that they could be doing SO MUCH more to help SO MANY more people and are CHOOSING not to should really be a greater insight into how much they give a single shit about anyone who isn't them.
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u/MiserableSkill4 Feb 22 '25
That's the changing thesis on why batman is mentally ill by being batman. While Bruce does donate to social causes he devoted most of his wealth to his vigilante life which does little to stem the tide of crime. While he could fundamentally change the world with his vast wealth
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u/eastbayted Feb 22 '25
Now seems as good a time as any to remind the world of the time Elon Musk offered to solve world hunger if he could see the plan, then renigged.
Instead, he "gave" the $6B to his own foundation.
Can you imagine? It's like dangling a twenty in front of a hungry person and insisting they show you how they'll feed themselves for $20 that day - and then not liking the answer and saying never mind.
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u/Isekaimerican Feb 22 '25
One function of USAID is the Famine Early Warning System, which predicts famines to more efficiently stockpile and distribute food aid. Because of Elon musk and DOGE, this system is now shutdown.
Not only did he not solve world hunger, he's making it worse.
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u/Masonjaruniversity Feb 21 '25
A worse version of Lawnmower Man which is an accomplishment.
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u/ReaderTen Feb 21 '25
They could have literally solved world hunger.
Musk boasted that if anyone could show him a plan to end hunger for $6 bn, he'd do it. So the actual charities and experts who do that put together a plan to, if not end, seriously reduce world hunger for $6 bn.
Needless to say, he went "nah just kidding" and "donated" it to a "foundation" which he runs and owns. Needless to say, it was just a tax dodge.
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u/StockMarketCasino Feb 22 '25
Just the interest alone on 100 billion is enough to solve majority of global social struggle every single year.
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u/Unhappy-Prune-9914 Feb 21 '25
He's not exactly a set-up soup kitchens kind of guy, he buys islands, steals ideas, or buys tech and pretends he came up with it.
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u/Riaayo Feb 21 '25
They could have set up soup kitchens and fed the hungry with that investment.
It was said 40 billion a year could end world hunger by 2030.
Could have covered 2 and a half years of that all on their own.
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u/NOT-GR8-BOB Feb 22 '25
I had so many people telling me the metaverse was the future. My former company sat us down for 2 hours trying to brainstorm ways to get in early. And I told them this was stupid and it would never be successful. That is was a waste of time and money. That we were better off improving our UX and building customer loyalty through good faith ideas. And they looked at me like I was a jaded crazy Luddite.
And yet we continue to treat meta, who hasnt produced shit worth talking about in over a decade like they’re tech royalty. Useless fucks all of them.
This whole industry is full of pussy fucking bed wetters who couldn’t spot a good idea if rammed itself down their throats but will fanboy at the stupidest most useless ideas for the stupidest most useless people. So sick of this shit.
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u/hiphopahippy Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25
I'm all lost in the supermarket...
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Feb 21 '25
Or HGH where you get that bizarre body shape because your organs get huge. The Joe Rogan look
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u/ArseneGroup Feb 22 '25
Makes Rogan look weird for sure but at least he was an athlete, if you weren't one you wind up looking like Edolf
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u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 Feb 22 '25
Being a shitty comedian who made people chug horse-jizz while fanboying out to karate makes one an "athlete," got it.
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u/LanceOnRoids Feb 22 '25
The “alpha male” who’s one every steroid he can get to make up for being 5’5”… what a douche
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u/maltNeutrino Feb 21 '25
PSA: Musk botched a penis enlargement surgery and Trump molested his daughter.
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u/CrushTheVIX Feb 21 '25
And Trump raped his ex wife
Donald Trump’s Hair Mystery Solved: He had Scalp Reduction Surgery
Ivana’s detailed description of Donald’s rape was given during her deposition as part of the Trump’s 1990’s divorce case. In a 1993 book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, the former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, described a very violent, criminal scene of domestic violence.
According to Ivana’s sworn statements, her plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Hoefflin, who had performed Donald’s waist and chin liposuction procedures, also performed his scalp reduction surgery. Hurt wrote in the Lost Tycoon that the recovery was painful and Donald suffered “nagging headaches caused by the shrinking of the scalp, and the pain of the initial incision.”
In pain, and not satisfied with the immediate coloration associated with the process, on an irate phone call, Donald told the Dr. Hoefflin, “I’m going to kill you!” He then threatened to sue the doctor, not pay for the procedure and work to destroy his practice.
Donald then unleashes his anger on Ivana for recommending the doctor. The relevant excerpt of Lost Tycoon follows:
Suddenly, according to Ivana, The Donald storms into the room. He is looking very angry, and he is cursing out loud. “Your fucking doctor has ruined me!” he screams. The Donald flings Ivana down onto the bed. Then he pins back her arms and grabs her by the hair. The part of her head he is grabbing corresponds to the spot on his head where the scalp reduction operation has been done. The Donald starts ripping out Ivana’s hair by the handful, as if he is trying to make her feel the same kind of pain that he is feeling. Ivana starts crying and screaming. The entire bed is being covered with strands of her golden locks. But The Donald is not finished. He rips off her clothes and unzips his pants. Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified. This is not lovemaking. This is not romantic sex. It is a violent assault. She later describes what The Donald is doing to her in no uncertain terms. According to the versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, “He raped me.” When The Donald finally pulls out, Ivana jumps up from the bed. Then she runs upstairs to her mother’s room. She locks the door and stays there crying for the rest of the night. The next morning Ivana musters up the courage to return to the master bedroom. The Donald is there waiting for her. He leaves no doubt that he knows exactly what he did to her the night before. As she looks in horror at the ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with menacing casualness: “Does it hurt?
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u/maltNeutrino Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25
I wonder if any woman has willingly fucked him for the sake of it to be honest.
I’ve never seen a dumber, crueler pretender in my entire life.
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u/Apart_Visual Feb 21 '25
And then Ivanka was his substitute First Lady for his entire first term. How could she have lived with herself knowing he did that to her own mother!!
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u/Brightstarr Feb 21 '25
How does she live with herself knowing what he did to her mother, then buried her in some forgotten corner of a golf course?
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u/Fun_Beyond_7801 Feb 22 '25
Because they don't care about people like normal humans. They only care about money and power
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u/Phyraxus56 Feb 21 '25
The Donald?
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u/hollow4hollow Feb 21 '25
Yeah this was horrifying but the “the Donald” wording was wtf
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u/Kevin_Jim Feb 21 '25
Is Mr Lizard hunting deer with a crossbow or something? Like a poor deer could run away from a freaking compound crossbow.
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u/bill1024 Feb 21 '25
overthrow the government
And it says only "about 54% of U.S. adults say they have an unfavorable view of Musk". 54%? That's it? Was this survey taken 5 years ago?
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u/filmguy36 Feb 21 '25
Suckupberg didn’t overthrow anything. He let his lunch money be taken by a grifter/felon
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u/Willing-Major5528 Feb 21 '25
I'm a bit older than Zuck, I bought a slightly over-priced blender from John Lewis that I've not used much. I think my MLC is pretty benign all told.
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u/2hats4bats Feb 21 '25
They used to just buy expensive cars and cheat on their wives. Now they try to rig elections and take over countries.
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u/BKlounge93 Feb 21 '25
No one hates MySpace Tom, mark. Be like Tom and please fuck off.
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u/Straight-Eggplant8 Feb 21 '25
When are we eating the rich? I’m confused.
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u/KTKittentoes Feb 21 '25
With all the drugs they do, they probably aren't very edible.
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u/Straight-Eggplant8 Feb 21 '25
True. So if we each only take one bite, we can micro dose on billionaire together.
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u/thisischemistry Feb 21 '25
He had a makeover? Still seems like a greedy robot to me.
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u/Drolb Feb 21 '25
Well now he looks like a greedy robot who’s had some kind of cosmetic hair surgery, a really deep tanning session and mainlined some steroids
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u/nfstern Feb 22 '25
He doesn't look like he mainlined steroids to me, I think he still looks like a punk.
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u/Noblesseux Feb 22 '25
Also he tries to dress like people he probably would have talked shit about back in college.
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u/rnilf Feb 21 '25
Doesn't really matter if people like him if everyone keeps using his company's products, which only continues to increase his wealth and power...
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u/SuperToxin Feb 21 '25
But that’s the funny thing about him and baby elon, they want to be liked by people it seems.
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u/Popular-Jackfruit432 Feb 21 '25
Man built an entire network because no one would add him on myspace
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u/SilvarusLupus Feb 22 '25
I thought they made Facebook to hook up with girls in college?
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u/BringbacktheWailers Feb 22 '25
it was to rate how attractive they thought girls were even more embarrassing
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u/bizarro_kvothe Feb 21 '25
Does he need to be liked? Absolutely not. He likes to be liked. He enjoys being liked. He has to be liked. But it’s not like a compulsive need, like his need to be praised.
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u/coconutpiecrust Feb 21 '25
He should do likeable things, then. I thought he was smart.
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u/InEenEmmer Feb 21 '25
It takes a certain kind of person to do likeable things though.
Things like being a decent person and showing compassion.
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Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25
I feel like he could like...give a shit ton of money to help people and just...do nothing and become more likable. Become seen as a philanthropist and a bit of a recluse.
Edit: relevant consideration, roughly two decades ago, Bill Gates was the richest guy on earth. He spent literally a fortune to improve the world to help people. And he's still richer than he was then because capitalism will always make these people richer.
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u/BogiDope Feb 22 '25
Imagine if you were a billionaire - with more wealth that you could ever spend in several lifetimes, how little compassion it would require to look around you and decide to use your resources to alleviate human suffering around you, as opposed to going FUCK EVERYONE ELSE, I NEED MOR!!! I NEED EVERYTHING!!!
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u/bloodontherisers Feb 21 '25
And those types of people don't get to be the richest people in the world
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u/JIsADev Feb 21 '25
i never met a billionaire but i bet they are ruthless in the office and meeting rooms
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u/bloodontherisers Feb 22 '25
It is really just a relentless willingness to exploit others. That's all it boils down to. They have no empathy and I would venture most, if not all, are also narcissist.
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u/Corona-walrus Feb 21 '25
Smoking these meats https://youtu.be/eBxTEoseZak?si=Dc89kJw6x1Yy2LlA
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u/coconutpiecrust Feb 21 '25
Hahaha, I have never seen this. Thanks for sharing.
According to Curtis Yarvin, this completely average awkward guy is crème de la crème of humanity
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u/StatisticianOwn9953 Feb 21 '25
Idk why he doesn't follow Tom's lead and make himself everyone's friend. Seems like an open net tbh.
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u/crazycatlady331 Feb 21 '25
Tom also sold his company at the peak and instead of taking the movie villain route and aiming for world domination, he retired and is now traveling the world living his best life.
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u/fireblyxx Feb 21 '25
A couple of years ago Zuckerberg got it in his head that he could run for President, and was doing meet and greets in Iowa. Ofcourse, everyone thought he was a weird robot person and it didn't go anywhere. Now he's on this manosphere binge, but like Musk he just looks like he's trying to roleplay at masculinity.
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u/ejp1082 Feb 21 '25
he just looks like he's trying to roleplay at masculinity.
Seriously, for the life of me I'll never understand this.
The whole manosphere thing is baffling to me but it's especially baffling to see guys on that level buy into it.
Musk and Zuckerburg frickin won capitalism. They're friggin billionaires, part of the very small three comma club. They could do and have literally anything they want.
Yet somehow that makes them into more of an insecure man-baby rather than less of one? I just don't get it.
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u/fireblyxx Feb 21 '25
I think that masculinity itself is broad and the bounds of it are arbitrarily defined, and for a lot of people, “masculinity” is one of those things you define by describing what it isn’t, or using symbology and association to denote belonging.
I think between the two Musk is the clearer example of masculinity defined by symbology. He comes out on stage with a chainsaw or a flamethrower. Wears dark clothes in an attempt to look intimidating. But none of those things are him, just trinkets of things we’re meant to see as masculine, and therefore him by association. And that’s what makes it feel so fake, the need for association and recognition.
Like, I don’t like Joe Rogan, but at least he’s, like, relaxed in his demeanor. He has all that masculine symbology association bullshit too, but at least he’s honest about supplementing his testosterone levels and wouldn’t lie about it like he’s some natural fount of masculinity that we somehow aren’t all seeing.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 Feb 22 '25
To be fair, Rogan is really into fitness bro culture. They're all on PEDs these days. I'm not sure if he should get credit for not lying about it, because its less an admission and instead kind of functions as signalling group belonging with the gym rats he loves so much.
I will agree that Musk is one of most performative try hard over compensators I've never seen.
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u/Tex-Rob Feb 21 '25
Mind blowing that people aren't getting this Michael Scott reference.
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u/IndubitablyNerdy Feb 21 '25
Hehe Ironically I think that his image improved when he was quarreling with Elon, like with the whole MMA match thingie, but now that he has bent the knee as well he also lost what little respect he had earned with it.
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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 Feb 21 '25
They already won the making money race so now they compete on who is more loved. They might switch to competing on who is the most hated.
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u/swirlybat Feb 21 '25
wonder what it's like knowing not a single human on earth would talk to you if you didnt possess almost all the monies on earth?
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u/ihearthorror1 Feb 21 '25
Zuck only cares if other rich people and celebrities like him (heavy emphasis on celebrities famous for their looks/body only), and Musk wants white men, specifically, to adore him.
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Feb 21 '25
I don’t use his products and I fucking hate him. I’m doing my part.
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u/Guppy1975 Feb 21 '25
I came to the realisation I was just hate scrolling Instagram, it's 90% plagarised garbage. If I could get off reddit I'd be completely free of social media.
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u/DizzySecretary5491 Feb 21 '25
It really wasn't. Back when these companies first started out conservatives hated tech and the money thrown at it and viewed it as liberal California bullshit. So they got in bed with liberals through the Democratic party to secure funding and low regulation in exchange for pushing socially liberal policy and having a socially liberal public face.
Fast forward. Liberals came after them for abusing their workers, wanted to regulate their monopolies, wanted them to pay taxes and talked about a wealth tax. So they jumped in with conservatives so they could not pay taxes, not be regulated, keep their monopolies, and abuse their workers. In exchange they promoted Nazis and racists to make conservatives happy.
There's no there there. These guys are all on the spectrum and narcissistic to boot. But above all they are money and power hungry and consider themselves gods and want to build a global techno, feudal, mercantile, oligarchical, libertarian utopia. Conservatives are willing to let them do it hence the fascism and bro style.
Zuck would wear a tutu and smear shit in his hair while fellating a mule if he thought it would make that reality come true.
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u/Friskfrisktopherson Feb 21 '25
This. Theil, Marks mentor from day 1, emailed Mark and advised him to do the make over. It's not about convincing the masses, it's about shifting to meet the tide and stay in the upper echelon. Remember that Zuck knew about J6 etc in advance, he knew about Cambridge Analytica, he's had an eagle eye view on the right wing fascist take over every step of the way. Him changing coats in the home stretch isn't a coincidence, it's a life raft.
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u/DizzySecretary5491 Feb 21 '25
Thiel is the only one of them with a core and he as been a straight conservative fascist republican (but I repeat myself three times there) from the get go. Both Musk and Zuck are his pupils.
The only good thing about all this is they are going enslave, impoverish, enserf, and let die all the conservative commoners as well. They don't realize it yet, but they are on the menu. Sure they'll get to hate and hurt for a bit, but they are going to get eaten with the rest of us. Even the six figure income crowd and low level millionaires are going to lose everything.
What they also don't get is if we make it through this, or when it comes crashing down, conservatism and conservatives aren't going to get to walk away. Everyone will have seen what they and their ideology is. It won't go back to the way it was. The consequences will be bad.
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u/Space_Sweetness Feb 21 '25
Good motivational speech for everybody to plan a friends and family gathering where everybody cancels their Meta accounts and moves everything to an alternative platform.
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u/krollAY Feb 21 '25
Carnegie figured it out - if you want a decent legacy you have to give away a significant portion of your wealth to something that actually benefits people. Carnegie did it by funding beautiful Libraries (among other things). There are so many things Zuck could do for people if he really did care about public opinion and legacy. Otherwise he’ll always just be seen as some asshole who hordes his wealth and barely acted human.
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u/Digitaltwinn Feb 22 '25
It was successful. When I think of Carnegie I think of the university and libraries he built, not the thousands who died in the Johnstown Flood or Homestead Strike.
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u/thoughtmecca Feb 22 '25
I’m just so sick and tired of big government forcing me to maintain my private club’s dam.
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u/celtic1888 Feb 21 '25
The Medici's figured out before him
Louis XVI... not so much
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u/InadequateUsername Feb 22 '25
And they're all referred to as "Carnegie buildings" too.
In 1997 Gates donated $200m to libraries as well.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-24-mn-6304-story.html
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u/Crunchy__Frog Feb 22 '25
Why would he do that when he could use his enormous presources to undercut native Hawaiian residents out of their indigenous birthrights?
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u/Zeliek Feb 21 '25
It’s kinda sad (maybe amusing is the right word) cause he was somewhat repairing his reputation when he was in the news and on social media getting fit, doing professional fighting, and responding to Musk’s harassment with clever and appropriate quips.
Then he decided “naaaah being good is too much effort, back to evil it is!” and now I guess he’s goose stepping with Musk. 😕
Like damn, Mark, you nearly had an opportunity to fix your horrible PR by punching out a nazi oligarch in a cage match and you decided to suck their dick instead.
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u/reckless_commenter Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25
"You're going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true.
"It’ll be because you’re an asshole."
Dude just decided to dump the camouflage and be himself. It's all the rage among billionaires these days.
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u/Zeliek Feb 21 '25
They seem to have collectively decided being pleasant is unnecessary, and it would be easier in the long run to just forcibly take over the planet and not have to worry about what people think of you because you can just toss them jn a gulag or whatever else your feel like. The world is their oyster I suppose!
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u/IndubitablyNerdy Feb 21 '25
Hehe agree, I think he had earned some goodwill in the rivalry with Musk (although the two were never really enemies), but that's definitely gone.
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u/PrincessNakeyDance Feb 21 '25
They might be enemies, but they are happy to put their differences aside to accumulate even more wealth and power while abusing the people of the world.
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u/Viceroy1994 Feb 22 '25
This right here, rich people hate each other too, and would gladly rip each other apart if they didn't occasionally need to combine forces to push the lower classes further down.
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u/MVIVN Feb 21 '25
Right?? Like remember when Threads launched and it was being hailed as the anti-X, the Twitter killer, and all the celebrities and left-leaning influencers were migrating their accounts to Threads, and it was becoming a welcoming space for people who were sick of all the MAGA bullshit and nazism on X; his reputation was slowly getting rehabilitated. Then of course he saw Elon had become Trump’s bestie and was now actually in a position to significantly impact American policy, so he got jealous and went mask-off, now he’s trying so hard to be Elon jr.
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u/KikiWestcliffe Feb 21 '25
He was rehabilitating his image by promoting himself as a good father and husband - changing his daughters’ diapers, boasting about his wife’s accomplishments.
Now, he is back to looking like an insecure dweeb that is desperate to hang with the jocks. His wife, Priscilla, better be careful - men around Trump have a type. And it usually involves orange spray tan, fake breasts, and lip filler. Which might actually be interesting to see on an Asian American woman…
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u/click_for_sour_belts Feb 22 '25
I'm sure she's already checked out of the marriage, and he's probably talking to a 19 year old daughter of one of the oligarch families. I predict at least one of his kids will come out with a book to talk about their loser dad.
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Feb 21 '25
There is no "back to evil", he was being extremely evil the entire time, he never stopped.
This dude has been knowingly facilitating several ongoing genocides in the world because paying a few people to moderate the pro-genocide propaganda on Facebook in those areas isn't worth it to Mark.
Facebook executives have asked Mark to do something about it and he told them to stop bringing it up and he doesn't care.
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u/addictedtolols Feb 21 '25
he still talks and acts like a lizard person
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u/emmmmk Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25
All the money in the world can’t teach you how to be or act cool. See: literally any other billionaire/bigwig in the public eye
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u/Dzotshen Feb 21 '25
He'll never not be a sociopath.
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Feb 21 '25
It turns out giving a misanthropic misogynist college kid billions of dollars doesn't turn them into a good person!
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u/jaybizzleeightyfour Feb 21 '25
The guy is a dweeb with negative charisma
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u/CurtCocane Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
His is a vacuous nonentity on a lifelong quest for a personality
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u/liquid_at Feb 21 '25
AI is not developed far enough to find ways to make Zuckerberg likeable.
Maybe when we have quantum computers and we combine them with AI, he has a chance.
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u/buckfouyucker Feb 21 '25
He's spending billions in AI to create a virtual version himself that everyone likes because he's a regular dude meister who's taking the metaverse... TO THE EXTREME!
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u/liquid_at Feb 21 '25
Imho, the Metaverse is exactly where Zuckerberg should be.
That's the one place you can be pretty sure you'll never see any real people...
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u/dakotanorth8 Feb 21 '25
Best comment I’ve seen.
“He’s dressed like a middle aged man going through a divorce”
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u/ClittoryHinton Feb 22 '25
He’s dressed like an elder millennial dorks best guess at what kids these days are into
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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot Feb 21 '25
He had about 5 minutes of “well at least he’s not Musk” until he whipped out his golden knee pads and chapstick and went to work on Mango Mussolini.
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u/Saneless Feb 21 '25
I will only appreciate what he's doing if he's fertilizing plants with his ashes
As long as he's making people's lives worse I think he's a loser
He has enough money to do so much good that even the biggest critic would be forced to like him. But he's a jerk and he doesn't want to do the right thing, just the easy and manipulative things
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u/afCeG6HVB0IJ Feb 21 '25
I will only appreciate what he's doing if he's fertilizing plants with his ashes
I haven't had this good of a laugh in a while, thank you!
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u/Odd-Mechanic3122 Feb 21 '25
Its worse than that, by hoarding all his money the dude is killing people just by virtue of there being limited wealth in the world. But to him showing up on lists of the worlds richest is just more important.
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u/the_zero Feb 21 '25
If he's trying to be "likable," maybe he should:
- Instead of hoarding land and forcing out locals in Hawaii, he could preserve that land and help make housing more affordable for the locals.
- Be like Gates and try to cure a disease or erase a societal ill.
- Moderate content on his platforms and make user privacy a priority, even if it means lower profits
- Set a good example for other billionaires and give money back to better the society he lives in - the one that has made him richer than he ever dreamed. He could invest half his net worth 8 times and still almost have a billion dollars left over. (yeah, I know net worth and liquid cash are different - he could divest his shares, etc.)
- not bow down and kiss the ass of other oligarchs
- stand up to brutal regimes that want our data and have proven to meddle in our elections.
I mean, I could go on...
But nah, give him a perm, some bronzer, and have him work out with a personal trainer. That'll work.
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u/blahblah98 Feb 22 '25
Don't forget Facebook's Cambridge Analytica / Mercer / Palantir scandal that may have thrown the Brexit outcome and Trump's first term.
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u/-LazyEye- Feb 21 '25
Mark Zuckerberg, who no one ever liked, is still not liked. Cool story.
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u/Ditovontease Feb 21 '25
Wow making yourself over into a 20 year old twitch streamer/guido who hates women is really going to endear you to the general population.
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u/vanityinlines Feb 21 '25
I hate him even more.
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u/A1sauc3d Feb 21 '25
Me too. Although it has nothing to do with his “make over”. I didn’t even notice he got a make over.. It’s all the other shit he’s been doing that I’m not a fan of.
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u/Jonnyflash80 Feb 21 '25
Maybe he's unlikable because he made a website to rate college women on their looks without their knowledge or consent. The man's a creep. Did everyone forget?
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u/ILoveSpankingDwarves Feb 21 '25
Now he looks like a rich douchebag, before he only looked like a douchebag.
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u/MadduckUK Feb 21 '25
Trying to make himself the third Paul brother didn't work? But everyone loves those pieces of shit!
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u/robdwoods Feb 21 '25
Awkward tech bro billionaires don’t seem to get you have to actually get a better personality and be a nicer person to get people to like you, not get a makeover or buy the platform.
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u/thmtx Feb 22 '25
I never liked him. He, as well as Bezos and Elon… have no moral character. They were lucky and were in the right place at the right time. They have no moral character, are self serving narcissists and simply money doesn’t make the person. Actions of compassion, standing up for truth and social concern combined with wisdom do. People lick up to them, especially naive young dicky males because they have money. If any of the 3 had no money to speak of? No one would give a hoot about them. They are not geniuses, a real genius would know better.
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u/a-cloud-castle Feb 21 '25
Was that the goal? I thought he was trying to out-douche himself.
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u/_uff_da Feb 21 '25
It looked like he was about to announce a divorce and pop up with a 19 year old girlfriend lol
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u/Vast_Refrigerator585 Feb 21 '25
Dude looks like an American actor trying to portray some in college but looks uncanny as hell
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u/Cley_Faye Feb 22 '25
People: "Stop fucking everyone over!"
Alien dude: "Best I can do is a haircut"
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Alien dude: "Why are people still angry at me?"
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u/hitanthrope Feb 21 '25
I don't suppose you know what kind of alien life form leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water, do you?
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u/Spare-Suggestion-92 Feb 21 '25
Makeovers never help. Just be a genuine nice, honest person with morals.
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u/fedora_and_a_whip Feb 22 '25
Instead of an android-like human who was untrustworthy that I didn't like, he became a foppy-headed dudebro pseudofascist who is untrustworthy that I don't like.
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u/wolviesaurus Feb 22 '25
What makeover? He still looks like a robot with an ugly haircut, just now with a five-o-clock shadown.
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u/UGH-ThatsAJackdaw Feb 22 '25
Both him and Elon spend so much effort trying to make people like them instead of spending that effort on being more likable human beings. For all his faults Gates at least genuinely tries to good with his wealth and is secure in himself because he's not an amoral sociopath or an Edgelord Batman villain.
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u/--GhostMutt-- Feb 21 '25
When did a midlife crises go from getting kayaks or a sports car to giving yourself a Logan Paul makeover??
I guess when you can literally have whatever you want the answer to the revelation that life is creeping toward finality is to look like one of the Paul’s.
AND go find yourself a blood boy.
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u/DannyVandal Feb 21 '25
What? A new broccoli hair do and a large tee shirt didn’t suddenly make an unlikable dork likeable? Fuck me. What a world.