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/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/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/MiserableSkill4 Feb 22 '25

Hey I know reddit has been on the fritz and posting my comments random places, I think this happened to you

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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.