She’s a scapegoat for money. Elon will blame her for any failings when he finally cuts ties. She will then land safely with a golden parachute.
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She is the Tom Wambsgans of the industry. If she dies eating shit for Elon, another billionaire will gladly resurrect her and offer her even more money to eat more shit because she did the job so well the first time.
She ~~took~~ practically begged for the job, no sympathy.
research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get.
fuck right off with that, I’ve read her history
Indeed, I have little respect for advertisers and I disagree with her politics. But I wouldn't say I have no sympathy, and I offered a plausible explanation on why she might have taken the job.
I mean, you’re welcome to your own judgment regarding how much sympathy to have, but she chased the job knowing full well why the job needed to be filled, so I have no sympathy when she makes herself look like an idiot for Elon. She resigned from NBCUniversal the same day her Twitter position was announced. She didn’t actually need a new job, but she made a choice to take this one and all the bullshit that comes with it.
edit: it’s possible she did want a new job, but I’m certain she could have held out for something better than this.
Well, we agree that she looked terrible. Here's the evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYymRU-bfpQ
[2 mins 15 sec] Yaccarino: "I work at X, he worked at Twitter, X is a new company."
...
[3 mins 16 sec] Yaccarino: "The team at Twitter is fantastic"
At least she lasted 1 whole minute before that embarassing contradiction. I can't do another 38 minutes of watching that mess though, too painful right from the start.
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oh yeah, it’s bad, if taking a position with Musk didn’t ding her reputation, that showing certainly did.
There's risky, and then there's walking into a blender. This tends towards the latter.
There's no paywall on theverge.
Narrator: yes there is
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Reporters and journalists deserve to get paid for their work.
My comment was purely about whether or not a paywall exists.
I hit a wall on mobile.
While you're technically right, I don't see a material difference between paying with cash and paying with data (Verge sign up is free, but it's still sign up).
Not usually, but I hit one this time
I learned the term "glass cliff" when she was hired.
She's a woman Elon put in power to toss under the bus when his company failed.
Lookup glass cliff. Happened at reddit as well.
And looking back, she was absolutely in the right clearing out those communities.
She wasn't controversial for banning /r/fatpeoplehate, she was controversial for banning it but not banning subs like /r/the_donald as well.
Was she? Any posts about "why isn't X banned too?" were buried under an avalanche of reactionary tantrums about losing their platform to discuss hitting children. For the overwhelming majority of users, it was "this goes too far", not "this doesn't go far enough".
Which means that realistically, she never got past the low hanging fruit. These were the days when a lot of these places still had plausible deniability so it was easy to pull in wider support.
My baseless guess is that she came in as CEO and noticed they were handing over some very predictable post histories every time there was a mass shooting but couldn't come out and say "check out all these domestic terrorists" because it would damage the brand.
She's even sighted in the wikipedia article "In 2023, Linda Yaccarino was appointed as the CEO of Twitter while the company was facing an uncertain future and a number of challenges, including outages, user discontent and advertiser skepticism. The company lost more than half of its value since its acquisition by Elon Musk six months prior."
I mean if Elon offered me the job as CEO of twitter, I would have absolutely taken it knowing full well I was set up to fail. I don't think Linda was ignorant of that fact. Now she may suck in tons of other ways, but I don't really see how her "performance" at the conference reflects on anyone but herself.
When someone named Kafka says it's the "weirdest"...that says something!
It's okay Verge, she is not a damsel in distress. She asked for this specifically.