Maybe he doesn’t personally see “gay” as meaning “bad,” but he knows that the mainstream of society including most billionaire oligarchs see it that way, and so is doing it because he knows it would get under their skin.
Which, you know, I see gay people doing all the time. So it can’t really be that offensive…
Edit: I don’t know anything about him personally so you could be right but I generally don’t jump to those kind of conclusions from seeing offhand comments
You’re saying you know nothing about him and making up a fantasy scenario in which you would feel his image is alright instead of just… looking at his profile. Search for the word “gay” and see how he uses it.
Right, but when you see someone using the logos of companies mostly known for being evil at the moment to spell out “gayman” wouldn’t you wonder if this person is doing this because he thinks gay men are as evil as we think those companies are?
Excepting y-combinator, which he seems to have thrown in just to manage to spell “gay.”
Y Combinator is a huge driver behind the AI push, not sure why you think it’s not part of the evil empire if the rest of them are? Matter of fact, OpenAI grew out Y combinator while Altman was president.
As for the other thing, I could see how it’s a joke aiming at those rich people and NOT gay people. Some 15-20 years ago, gay was used pretty much how “cringe” is now, without sexuality even being important. I reckon a ton of people have called someone gay online without actually hating gay people.
I didn’t know anything about y-combinator since like 2008 so that one threw me off.
The person who made this calls people and things gay all the time. Now, not 15-20 years ago. I’m nearly 50, so I have a lot of experience seeing gay used as a bad thing.
Which… what you’re saying was an example of. Using gay to mean bad, shitty, awful, cringe was homophobic and insulting. That’s the reason we don’t do that any more. Except this guy does. Often. Because he’s homophobic, and so he made this homophobic meme.
Lol who’s the Y? Yahoo?
It’s Y Combinator
Gayman (Aah-aah-aah) Fighter of the straight man (Aah-aah-aah)
He’s a homophobe who sees “gay” as a synonym for “bad” and is making fun of how awful and bad these companies are by calling them a gay man.
He’s fighter of the gay men.
Maybe he doesn’t personally see “gay” as meaning “bad,” but he knows that the mainstream of society including most billionaire oligarchs see it that way, and so is doing it because he knows it would get under their skin.
Which, you know, I see gay people doing all the time. So it can’t really be that offensive…
Edit: I don’t know anything about him personally so you could be right but I generally don’t jump to those kind of conclusions from seeing offhand comments
You’re saying you know nothing about him and making up a fantasy scenario in which you would feel his image is alright instead of just… looking at his profile. Search for the word “gay” and see how he uses it.
Another fantastic person. I wonder if he’s trying to say all these evil companies (and Y-combinator?) are gay because he loves gay people?
Or are they gayman because he thinks gay is bad?
Oh look. It’s that second one.
I guess Lemmy is alright with homophobia, Islamophobia, and racism?
I think most of us just didn’t know the guy
Right, but when you see someone using the logos of companies mostly known for being evil at the moment to spell out “gayman” wouldn’t you wonder if this person is doing this because he thinks gay men are as evil as we think those companies are?
Excepting y-combinator, which he seems to have thrown in just to manage to spell “gay.”
Y Combinator is a huge driver behind the AI push, not sure why you think it’s not part of the evil empire if the rest of them are? Matter of fact, OpenAI grew out Y combinator while Altman was president.
As for the other thing, I could see how it’s a joke aiming at those rich people and NOT gay people. Some 15-20 years ago, gay was used pretty much how “cringe” is now, without sexuality even being important. I reckon a ton of people have called someone gay online without actually hating gay people.
I didn’t know anything about y-combinator since like 2008 so that one threw me off.
The person who made this calls people and things gay all the time. Now, not 15-20 years ago. I’m nearly 50, so I have a lot of experience seeing gay used as a bad thing.
Which… what you’re saying was an example of. Using gay to mean bad, shitty, awful, cringe was homophobic and insulting. That’s the reason we don’t do that any more. Except this guy does. Often. Because he’s homophobic, and so he made this homophobic meme.