Nary a month after the dramatic implosion of former president (and current Twitter refugee) Donald Trump’s attempted blogging career, the septuagenarian authoritarian’s “team” of grifting enablers has launched its latest attempt at a social network for folks who are just too darn patriotic for regular social media…and also for all sorts of Sonic the Hedgehog porn.
The unpleasantly named GETTR — Hilary Clinton lives in that dude’s head rent-free — is essentially a Twitter clone. Its slogan, “the marketplace of ideas,” suggests that inexplicably fence-sitting centrists might find it appealing as well, and that’s particularly true if they’re into furry vore artwork and memes about Sonic the Hedgehog getting pregnant.
That keeps coming up, doesn’t it? It seems that GETTR’s early launch (it was originally promised for Independence Day) has attracted a variety of leftist riff-raff from Tiktok, weird Twitter and the like, and they’ve embraced the former president’s unsavoury, make-believe birdsite wannabe as the perfect place to share degenerate hentai, furry porn, leftist Sonic memes, and stock photos of pudgy, aged men in their underwear.
QAnon genius Jordan Sather, who suggests drinking bleach to cure the ‘rona, noted that, “Shills are already hitting the #QAnon hashtag on GETTR hard. I won’t repost what I’m finding. Titties and bad words and stuff.”
“Stuff,” indeed. So far GETTR’s moderation safeguards haven’t stood a chance against the NSFW Communist mpreg onslaught, which has flooded venerable tags like #QAnon with the sorts of sexuality-threatening furotica that pass through MAGA uncles’ minds as they rant at Thanksgiving. It’s fair to say a fair few good, decent, upstanding conspiracy theorists and proto-fascists are rapidly being forced to come to terms with the existence of a large chunk of the shitposting internet, or at least acknowledge it outside of their secret bookmarks.
Sega’s speedy meme king is particularly well represented, with tags like #sonicfeet, #sonicismygod, #soniclovescommunism, #sonicmylove, and #sonic_came_in_my_bussy (ask your father about that one) tracking the sometimes-pregnant blue blur’s presence across the nascent social network for shitheads. But despite GETTR’s professed dedication to #FREEZEPEACH, a peek into accidentally leaked source code reveals its operators can add or remove “trending” topics at will. To arms, blue bussy brigade — you’re being censored!
It’s also quite easy to impersonate well-known conservative figures on the service, as evidenced by an account for Supreme Court justice “Brett Kavanaugh” enthusiastically sharing fetish images of a massive Sonic treading on a hapless fursona. I’m split on whether Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo’s is real or not. That fellow is a bit touched.
The prominence of Sonic amid the GETTR shitposting ruckus will come as no surprise to dedicated internetologists. Since his debut in 1991, Sega’s hedgehog has found a special place in fans’ hearts even as he acted as a gateway for an unknowable number into the realms of furrydom. His fandom has persisted through the series’ many ups and downs, and in more recent years he’s become a key player in absurdist Twitter and Tiktok memes that often bridge the gaps between the furry community, weird twitter, overly online leftists, and places in between.
Unfortunately for GETTR and its would-be users, the torrent of furry, leftist filth shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, especially given the recent media attention. Maybe Mr. Trump, who actually hasn’t joined the fledgling service yet, will step in with his legendary negotiating skills to re-assert order and make GETTR great again. Great for something beside Sonic feet pics, I mean.
The fact that this has more effort put into it than the average Kotaku article is disappointing. Why the clickbait though? If Trump doesn’t own it nor have an account, how is it his social network? What’s the point of signing up if I can’t hit up The Don and ask him his thoughts on Sonic RPG 7.
It’s founded by his staffer after he got booted off Twitter (and everything else). That’s basically why it looks like a Twitter carbon copy.
How does one join this disgusting cesspit?
Just so I can avoid it and I don’t, you know… accidentally end up there.
I’m going to assume the author is an 8 year old trying to be edgy because the Cringe is strong with this one. They also need to learn that the Centrists are such because they prefer to keep the fascists on the left, and the idiots on the right (and the occasional reversal) at arms length.
I’m also bemused at the sonic porn thing since that hasn’t really been a furry thing since the 2000s. It tends to be looked down on.
Is there something weird going on with the formatting of the article? It keeps on shrinking and growing as if the tide is going in and out while I’m in the comments.
Might it be the captions in the slideshow? It’s fine on my end.
It 100% bobs up and down with the captions.
>The unpleasantly named GETTR — Hilary Clinton lives in that dude’s head rent-free — is essentially a Twitter clone.
Kind of hilarious that this is said without a hint of self-awareness.
I also enjoyed the dig at centrists, because it wouldn’t be a day on earth without someone misrepresenting centrism (hint: it’s not fence sitting).
Americans sure do love their binary viewpoints dont they.
“Oh you think both sides have some good and utterly shit ideas? YOU FENCE SITTER!”
It’s so weird that many of these American far left journalists conflate centrism with fence-sitting. Surely it can’t be that hard to figure out – or are they intentionally pushing their agenda?
US centrism does tend to be very right leaning people who are smug about fence sitting though. Republicans abandoned genuinely right-wing/conservative voters, hell, even just intelligent voters, a long time ago so there’s a huge base of centrists who are only there because they can’t bring themselves to side with openly bigoted anti-intellectual politics.
Why do authors like Alexandra Hall have such hostility towards centrists? It’s almost cult-like in the hatred towards them.
Also,
“Hilary Clinton lives in that dude’s head rent-free”
Donald Trump has a permanent residence inside all of your types heads.