Well, if that is impossible I hope they don't infest every facet.
Reddit is now under fire for allowing the crazies in the house and the fact the CEOs are refusing to deal with it due to libertarianism...
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Reddit is now under fire for allowing the crazies in the house and the fact the CEOs are refusing to deal with it due to libertarianism...
I'm actually interested in how TTL's major social media sites would handle these sorts of issues when they come up, because even though we're just in TTL 2007, given the nature of the Internet, it's bound to happen eventually. Somebody is going to put a highly controversial video on YouTube, or flood TTL's Facebook and Twitter equivalents with bot accounts and spam fake news and conspiracy theories, and people are going to be upset . . .
I wonder if the shooter of NC State is gonna pull a Cho and send a entire media package to a big news network.
And what weapons he gonna get...
Yeah, I don't envy Crystal Rain ITTL; being the daughter of Corpus Christi's most famous resident (and who is basically seen as Elvis, the Beatles, and Madonna rolled into one by the local community (1) (2)) is not easy, IMO. At least she's in Los Angeles a lot of the time; it makes a lot of sense for Selena to move to LA for at least some of the year, as LA is a huge media and entertainment center (and, in the US, it's the equal to NYC in terms of that). It helps that LA is like an ocean compared to the fishbowl, as another post pointed out, that Corpus is...
I'm betting that, ITTL, there are thousands of young girls named Selena in the US and the Latin countries...
(1) IOTL, after Yolanda Saldivar was convicted of murder (and is lucky that it wasn't a death penalty case; many Hispanics would have happily volunteered to sentence her to death and carry it out themselves, IMO), she was isolated when she got to jail and has been in isolation ever since; this is because, IIRC, many Hispanic female inmates threatened to harm Yolanda for what she did to Selena.
(2) A parallel should be pointed out here between Selena ITTL and another famous Latina singer IOTL: Gloria Estefan (who was Cuban). Both Selena and Gloria were the lead singers for their bands, both their husbands were in their respective bands (and, IIRC, I think members of Gloria's family were in her band), and both had multiple #1 hits (ITTL for Selena, of course; Gloria's #1 hits, both with Miami Sound Machine and solo, were before the POD and are, therefore, unaffected), and both put Latin music (Tex-Mex ITTL and Cuban IOTL (as the peak of Gloria's career was in the late 1980s and early 1990s), respectively) into pop culture. Basically, what Gloria Estefan did in putting Miami on the map IOTL with regards to music, Selena did with Corpus Christi ITTL (and IOTL, Selena was probably a fan of Gloria Estefan's, which would make sense since she was starting her own career when Gloria and the MSM were at the height of their careers), and there's another strange parallel: both either died or nearly died young (Selena's sad fate is known, and Gloria Estefan nearly died in a bus crash in 1990, which is an interesting WI in and of itself, IMO)...
Just my .02.
I'm betting that, ITTL, there are thousands of young girls named Selena in the US and the Latin countries...
(1) IOTL, after Yolanda Saldivar was convicted of murder (and is lucky that it wasn't a death penalty case; many Hispanics would have happily volunteered to sentence her to death and carry it out themselves, IMO), she was isolated when she got to jail and has been in isolation ever since; this is because, IIRC, many Hispanic female inmates threatened to harm Yolanda for what she did to Selena.
(2) A parallel should be pointed out here between Selena ITTL and another famous Latina singer IOTL: Gloria Estefan (who was Cuban). Both Selena and Gloria were the lead singers for their bands, both their husbands were in their respective bands (and, IIRC, I think members of Gloria's family were in her band), and both had multiple #1 hits (ITTL for Selena, of course; Gloria's #1 hits, both with Miami Sound Machine and solo, were before the POD and are, therefore, unaffected), and both put Latin music (Tex-Mex ITTL and Cuban IOTL (as the peak of Gloria's career was in the late 1980s and early 1990s), respectively) into pop culture. Basically, what Gloria Estefan did in putting Miami on the map IOTL with regards to music, Selena did with Corpus Christi ITTL (and IOTL, Selena was probably a fan of Gloria Estefan's, which would make sense since she was starting her own career when Gloria and the MSM were at the height of their careers), and there's another strange parallel: both either died or nearly died young (Selena's sad fate is known, and Gloria Estefan nearly died in a bus crash in 1990, which is an interesting WI in and of itself, IMO)...
Just my .02.
Well the last time I cared about subway was when they introduced pizzas. I enjoyed them because their sourdough tasted no different than pizza I it's, along with the varieties of toppings were better. Also, their apple slices turned me into ryuk
I also wonder if the NC State shooter will be the revenge idol of many and idolized like Klebold and Harris IOTL if this person sends their media package to the media, if they made one. ITTL, Harris is just remembered as a school murderer on the level of small local incidents. Chris Chan is probably remembered as like a Weiss/Lanza/Holmes type since he did it out of revenge, but it is something I considered.....
I also discussed the possible aftermath of the NC State shooting and the killers potential movements and actions so....Ha, the biggest source of discussion from that last update was the fictional sub company. You guys must have been hungry when I posted!
That reminds me I should work on that Islamabad attack infobox.....
Hopefully the prospect of reforms means that Venezuela won't become the poverty-stricken country it is today. Where a incomplete office building spent years as a vertical slum.
Ha, the biggest source of discussion from that last update was the fictional sub company. You guys must have been hungry when I posted!
This is a great update. I'm really getting the feeling that 2007 Is in its own way, the start of a whole new era for the TL. With the new kids and all.
I can't wait for the Itwin update next week!
I can't wait for the Itwin update next week!
With the iTwin not being released for another few weeks, a TTL Chad Warden probably won't show up until 2008. I hope he'll be as entertaining as OTL's if he does show up.
Well there goes my TTL sister. Thinking about it some more TTL me might not exist either. I was born in '94.
Well there goes my TTL sister. Thinking about it some more TTL me might not exist either. I was born in '94.
Well, I don't think all of them won't be alive, especially those born in countries other than the US. Most of the actors that portrayed the Stark kids in Game of Thrones will probably be alive for example, even though they probably won't be famous in this TL - a damn shame, since Maisie Williams stared down Charles Dance while barely out of middle school - but most of the Stranger Things kids have probably been butterflied out of existence, since the United States are a very different country here.
This somehow makes me imagine a ITTL version of Stranger Things but with Masie Williams as a slightly older 11. And that's p amazing.
That'd be great, but Maisie Williams auditioned for her role in GoT simply because she needed money for a new laptop... that's like, a borderline ASB chance.
Hey, TTL's equivalent of the show could keep the Long Island settting it had in the original script and its original title Montauk.
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