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The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout (www.404media.co)
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... the cease-and-desist is not real; it is a wholesale fabrication created by the influencer for attention, likes, and clout. He is at zero risk of persecution or arrest for speaking out about Flock (though he may be at risk for forging a fake cease-and-desist letter.) In the meantime, Orion has gotten more than 30,000 new followers in the last month according to the Instagram tracking website NotJustAnalytics, a period in which he has posted essentially only about Flock and, primarily, about his stickers and his cease-and-desist letter.

This constant focus on his apparent legal trouble is a relatively typical pattern for Orion; before Flock, he was posting endlessly about how his modified bus with massive speakers was going to be impounded by the authorities. Before that, he was talking about how he was going to be evicted from the space in which he modified the bus.

Car brains going crazy about being held responsible for their driving.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, if dumbasses decided to be a problematic thorn in the side of flock, even though they're doing it stupidly- I say we let them. At least time spent ranting about flock is time NOT spent using smart glasses to record women on the street or running "pranks" on the sidewalk?

[–] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

NOT spent using smart glasses to record women on the street

That is such a threat vector that apes should never be asked to endure.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.