The article criticizes recent media coverage portraying Mark Zuckerberg as “cool” again based on his success with Threads and a shirtless photo he posted. The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife, and that Threads’ success is questionable given it is mostly used by journalists and brands. The author concludes that despite any business success, Zuckerberg’s role in Facebook’s issues make him unlikely to ever be truly “cool”, and urges journalists to stop describing him as experiencing a “Hot Zuck Summer”.
Gross
Wait who thought he was cool??
Pretty sure it’s just paid for media hype. This is just the pushback of journalists who were somehow convinced that people actually like zuck now, and/or were paid to drum up more drama around this to drive engagement. This happens a lot. It’s like the distant, braindead cousin of moral panics. I’m not sure what societal harm could come of this constant bickering about inconsequential “discourse” like this but it sure is annoying
I’m not sure what societal harm could come of this constant bickering about inconsequential “discourse” like this
Not having mental energy to care about important things. Bread and circuses, fall of Rome…
I assumed it was people that were paid to describe him as that.
I got you. https://archive.ph/lgBGz spoiler it’s the wsj
Journalists
“Journalists”
smh my head
Lots of boomers and gen-x’ers
The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife
I would argue the author is a petty asshole.
“Look at this guy having a hobby, he’s probably in a mid life crisis and cheating on his wife haha”
There are so many valid criticisms of this guy, and equally many things you could say that’s not really a valid criticism but still kind of a good point. This is just bullshit and if anything distracting from all the things we should be criticizing him for.
Yeah. Unless he has evidence… Yeah, don’t go around spewing that kind of stuff. How about going with “looks like middle-aged man having midlife crisis and currently in the “gym rat” phase of it”… little dig in there, but you know more realistic. Yeah he is little funny with the shirtless sports posing, so throw some shade over it. However it in no way implies cheating on his wife. Don’t know if he is, don’t know if he isn’t, but getting the middle life crisis hobby of “jiu-jitsu” doesn’t tell anything about that.
As said I think him getting in shape, sports and posing is way more about just bulk standard mid-life crisis. “Oh I’m getting little old. When did that midsection and belly got so wide. I should start a sports hobby to get in shape and avoid cardiovascular disease”. Some people get a motorbike to catch the lost youth. Others become gym rats/sports nuts to try to catch back their lost youth body.
Again which really wouldn’t be that interesting except billionaire and also him apparently getting so hooked on it, that he started competing in tournaments.
Doesn’t also remove anything from his horrible record of business ethics. He has absolutely horrible business ethics as most of these silicon valley billionaires in the advertising/social media sphere. Comes with the territory. One doesn’t start a targeted advertising social media business, if one values the ethics of peoples right to privacy.
Here is an Iron Law I have learned from two decades on Facebook: If you are 39 years old and married with two children, you do not get this ripped unless you are deeply unhappy.
Oh man, that hurt.
Yeah just because the author is fat and lazy and is surrounded by fat and lazy friends doesn’t make this true. This is one of those telling on yourself comments.
Yeah, we should all worship our zuckerbergs, rub our faces on his feet. I think he can probably survive without you defending him. Oh, Elon is a piece of shit too, and Gates.
Or maybe, hear me out, he has enough time and money to dedicate to taking care of his body. This article is a super petty attack.
he’s in good shape, but he’s not like unbelievably ripped or anything. the author just seems furious he has a hobby for some reason
Weird. I’d say the correlation is much stronger that people who try to tear down others for fitness accomplishments tend to be more likely to be “deeply unhappy.”
If anything, poor health is a more reliable indicator of unhappiness.
The PR team got the task to improve his reputation, and they paid newspapers and online sites to write positive things about him.
Nothing new under the sun.
Even a pic where he doesn’t look like a lizard. Well done.
I don’t find the zuck cool but i hate all the jokes of him being awkward and weird while he’s obviously in the spectrum. You can make fun of him for being evil and immoral but he didn’t choose to be like this.
God forbid you try to look good for your wife 🤷
There’s a lot to legitimately criticize Zuckerberg about, but not ‘being cool’ for learning jujitsu isn’t one of them.
This article is so crass and petty that it completely undercuts the point of the immense social damage his forays into social media have caused. It comes off as exactly the kind of toxic bullshit that’s perpetuated on his platforms. We don’t need it.
The solution isn’t picking a new side and being childish, it’s being honest and thoughtful as we exercise our autonomy far away from tech bros with too much money and let them be as irrelevant as they ought to.
