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-W5ehgrTueoJBD4LubB0aUd2ecJ39Y
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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/DFW_diego Feb 21 '25

I like the part where you can get some big ole titties

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u/Oli_Picard Feb 21 '25

Now all we need is cat ears

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u/pihkal Feb 22 '25

Lisa: Bart, the Internet is more than a global pornography network; it's --

[Lisa is cut off by the horn honking in the driveway. Homer and Bart are already in the car.]

Homer: Come on, Lisa—monkeystitties!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep95gFlHjoU

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u/Thin_Ad_1846 Feb 22 '25

“That’s pretty neat.”

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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/It_does_get_in Feb 22 '25

they have no souls, but then neither do you.

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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/readreadreadonreddit Feb 22 '25

Wait, I want to read/hear more about this. What is this thesis, this theory? Whose is it? When did this all start being a thing?

What illnesses does he have? Why/how according to diagnostic(research diagnostic) criteria?

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u/MiserableSkill4 Feb 22 '25

I can't narrow it down to any one person but I started seeing it about 10-15 years ago. How Bruce is just as insane as his villians. Which isn't exactly hidden just portrayed in a different light. But more how he could do so much more to help Gotham with his money than by being batman

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u/motoxim Feb 22 '25

Oh I heard that. Although I also read how Gotham is made purposely shithole by ancient secret organization. To keep the status quo of course.

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u/MiserableSkill4 Feb 22 '25

I haven't read that but with all the secret institutions I don't doubt jt

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u/monchikun Feb 22 '25

Of course he’s insane. He saw his parents gunned down.

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u/MiserableSkill4 Feb 22 '25

There are well adjusted people who don't become vigilantes dressed as a bat. My own brother found our father dead with the cops having the gunman at gunpoint. He isn't out fighting crime..... that I know of

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u/Disseminated333 Feb 22 '25

Detective Comics was the darker scarier version of the Batman comics. Both were in pront for decades but Detective started after. It was better. It showcased Batman’s PTSD and probable multiple TBI, his rage, OCD. Dude was probably on roids too.

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u/MiserableSkill4 Feb 22 '25

Isn't DC detective comics?

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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.

https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world-hunger-but-gave-it-to-his-own-foundation-instead/

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/penny_whistle Feb 22 '25

renigged

That’s, uhh .. that’s reneged, there.

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u/bone-in_donuts Feb 22 '25

I’m not sure on the journey to becoming a billionaire you aren’t completely corrupted along the way. The moves they need to make to acquire that kind of wealth hoarding have to be what compromise their humanity. Why the hell would they want to help others rather than continue helping themselves? They have big gullets to fill you know.

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u/LordCharidarn Feb 22 '25

It sounds like we are societally obligated to incarcerate these billionaires for their own mental wellbeing and to seize their ill gotten assets to redistribute to the people and communities that they harmed

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u/Disseminated333 Feb 22 '25

Look at Zuck and how many teen suicides and mental illness cases exist alone are on the pile of externalities he’s accrued alongside his wealth. Sure he did it legally, but we don’t have to like him. Everyone needs to delete or deactivate FB by default unless logged in. Better to delete it. Definitely keep it off your phone.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 Feb 22 '25

I appreciate your enthusiasm and agree with your sentiment but I believe your math is wrong.

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u/discussreunionmotto Feb 23 '25

It's actually an area related to the field I work in and have spent years studying. Again, I'm not saying waving a money wand would necessarily be the best long term solution, I'm saying in terms of how much money they have and how many real world problems that amount could radically solve without their lifestyles changing one bit....it makes the idea that it's "unfair" to tax them more absolutely laughable. 

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u/MrLyttleG Feb 22 '25

These billionaires are not humanists, just ego-centered

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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/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Feb 22 '25

And now he's a tax DOGE.

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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/Melodic-Psychology62 Feb 22 '25

His wife try’s to make up for his lack of humanity!

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u/Unhappy-Prune-9914 Feb 22 '25

Nah, she's still with him. She's ok with his bad behavior

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u/Disseminated333 Feb 22 '25

His end game is to own all of kauaii as his “home” and probably move on to Mauii or Hawa’ii next.

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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/Limit_Cycle8765 Feb 22 '25

Stupid Looking cartoon avatars when people want realistic avatars. People want a virtual reality to seem "real", not like they are stuck in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

How could they possibly get this so wrong.

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u/motoxim Feb 22 '25

Honestly just copy those vtubers design and it would be infinitely better

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u/Disseminated333 Feb 22 '25

At this point Zuck himself is little more than a stupid avatar.

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u/Locke_and_Load Feb 21 '25

You gimme a hundred billion dollars and I’ll crap out whatever you want while solving world hunger and curing cancer.

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u/Supergoose1108 Feb 22 '25

It's because amassing that much wealth isn't just greed, it's a lot of luck. And because American enterprise can't be satisfied with a successful product, it must always grow, these very fortunate beings assume they will have unlimited great ideas. The myspace guy had it right, sell that shit when it's hot and fuck off on your laurels.

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u/IOnlyWntUrTearsGypsy Feb 22 '25

Whats hilarious is Zuckerberg was knocking apple, when he’s burning billions on trash.

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u/It_does_get_in Feb 22 '25

imo you should be more concerned with how such a company can make so much and pay so little tax in the first place.

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u/CompMolNeuro Feb 22 '25

The tech is still early. His investment will pay off eventually.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

And it shows: as a person they're pathetic, uncharismatic, socially maladjusted and petty, they don't have friends, only sycophants.

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u/hiphopahippy Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

I'm all lost in the supermarket...
I can no longer shop happily... I came in here for that special offer... A guaranteed personality...

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u/jzzanthapuss Feb 21 '25

And a soul makeover

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u/FewHorror1019 Feb 21 '25

The testosterone also gives them a different personality.

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u/[deleted] 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/StorminNorman Feb 23 '25

No, it'd be the being an athlete that made him an athlete. His spinning back kick is arguably one of the best out there. 

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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/s_p_oop15-ue Feb 22 '25

Starts with an m ends with a y 

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u/PDK01 Feb 22 '25

Matrimony?

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u/timohtie Feb 22 '25

aren't golf course burials standard for holey matrimony though?

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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/Faxon Feb 22 '25

We're pretty sure he did it to her as well, especially given her reaction giving a tour of the family home and seeing her old bed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6FZ5kj3FGo She's all bubbly one minute and then goes quiet for a moment and changes tone before shifting focus away from it. Total shift in feel from the start of her room tour

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u/Thick-Tip9255 Feb 22 '25

Honestly, I don't see it. Not doubting he isn't capable of such horror, but I don't see it in her reaction. It's a bed? What is she supposed to say?

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u/Faxon Feb 22 '25

It's what she isn't saying that's the problem. She clearly has feelings she is hiding, feelings negative enough that they can be seen visibly in her demeanor. About a bed.... Speaking as a victim of similar abuse there's only one thing that would cause that reaction. Most kids have a special attachment to their childhood bed, it's where they felt safe at night under the covers and where their parents would read them stories. You should under no circumstances have a look of terror on your face and a change in demeanor just by showing someone the place you slept as a kid, unless something horrible happened there

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u/AsparagusDirect9 Feb 22 '25

Wow. I can completely see it. Goes to show your political bias

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u/Thick-Tip9255 Feb 22 '25

I don't like Trump. Just because I can't see it dosen't mean I'm a facist like him. How caught up in sports team mentality about politics have you gotten if I disagree with a wild theory, I'm suddenly a trump fan? Go fuck yourself.

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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/Phyraxus56 Feb 21 '25

Sounds like fan fiction

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u/GtrGenius Feb 22 '25

He was called that forever.

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u/cheeses_greist Feb 22 '25

Ivana used to refer to him that way and the media then used it as well.

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u/s_p_oop15-ue Feb 22 '25

Also Musks dad fucks his sister

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u/It_does_get_in Feb 22 '25

PSA: Musk botched a penis enlargement surgery

who was he operating on?

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u/Fun_Beyond_7801 Feb 22 '25

Gender affirming care for me but not for thee

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u/WorkingReasonable421 Feb 22 '25

"Human affirming"

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u/AuthenticLiving7 Feb 22 '25

The problem for Zuck he doesn't look any more masculine. He looks like a lost 40 year old boy. 

I think what amazes me is some of these billionaires have no idea how to look attractive 

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u/Thin_Ad_1846 Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25

If Musk is on TRT it doesn’t seem to be doing anything for him.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Actors take steroids too, who cares