Probably a whoosh, but I find this meme funny because about a month before the reddit protest, the was a pokemon go protest.
Niantic pretty much ignored public outcry much like reddit. They demolished remote raiding, which became popular during covid. This forced people, including those with disabilities, to pretty much obtain legendary pokemon in person.
This can be a huge task for those in rural areas and of course the disabled. Many rural areas just do not have enough of a community, or gyms, to meaningfully upgrade said legendary pokemon. Instead, Niantic gave preference to (the $$$) people it could glean location data from, typically those in a city.
Many people, we’re very disappointed and left pokemon go as a result.
I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…
I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…
All companies worship the same evil diety: Capital.
I’m not even joking. Unrestrained search for more capital is all that drives it. We’re at the point in capitalism where markets have been effectively “captured” and there is no more market to milk. The only way to further milk it is to “enshittify” it by increasingly bleeding the customers, in hopes that the customers you lose will be offset by your increased profits.
Probably a whoosh, but I find this meme funny because about a month before the reddit protest, the was a pokemon go protest.
Niantic pretty much ignored public outcry much like reddit. They demolished remote raiding, which became popular during covid. This forced people, including those with disabilities, to pretty much obtain legendary pokemon in person.
This can be a huge task for those in rural areas and of course the disabled. Many rural areas just do not have enough of a community, or gyms, to meaningfully upgrade said legendary pokemon. Instead, Niantic gave preference to
(the $$$)people it could glean location data from, typically those in a city.Many people, we’re very disappointed and left pokemon go as a result.
I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…
All companies worship the same evil diety: Capital.
I’m not even joking. Unrestrained search for more capital is all that drives it. We’re at the point in capitalism where markets have been effectively “captured” and there is no more market to milk. The only way to further milk it is to “enshittify” it by increasingly bleeding the customers, in hopes that the customers you lose will be offset by your increased profits.
As they say, unrestrained growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.
That is a very good way of putting it