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/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.

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u/ThunderChild247 Feb 22 '25

I wouldn’t even say he looks like a dork. There’s just something…. Unnatural about him. Inhuman.

He doesn’t even feel like an alien trying to wear a human suit because the alien would be trying harder to fit in.

He feels like a robot that’s been told that it’s human with only a few gigabytes of data as to what that means, so while Zuckerbot may appear human at a glance, it will always fail the Uncanny Valley test.

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u/blakezilla Feb 22 '25

I once played Smash against Zuck at the FB offices in Cambridge, MA. This was like 10 years ago. He was pretty good but had zero reactions to anything that happened. Very robotic.

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u/ThunderChild247 Feb 22 '25

Did he use a controller or just plug himself in?

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u/blakezilla Feb 22 '25

He used a controller but also used his own Zuckdawg mii which is kinda weird. I think he is careful not to show his ports around the uninitiated.

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u/ThunderChild247 Feb 22 '25

That’s fair. Usually if a billionaire showed you his ports you’d be made to sign an NDA.