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minus-squareseraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 day agowhat in the actual 1984 is that thumbnail (and that slogan)
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 day agoIt’s showing cell phones as marionettes. Marionettes are sometimes used as idiom used to indicate that someone else is, behind the scenes, controlling something. Here, the company is controlling social media accounts.
minus-squareseraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoyes, i understood the metaphor, in my comment i meant “what the fuck”
what in the actual 1984 is that thumbnail (and that slogan)
It’s showing cell phones as marionettes. Marionettes are sometimes used as idiom used to indicate that someone else is, behind the scenes, controlling something. Here, the company is controlling social media accounts.
yes, i understood the metaphor, in my comment i meant “what the fuck”