Laura Manach :bongoCat:Was good to be back on the timeline for a few days after a long break. However, after catching up on recent notifications and seeing some critical feedback, I'm reconsidering being active here. Frankly, it's made me question if it's worth the energy. We'll see.
#update #mastodon
Laura Manach :bongoCat:Since someone seems determined to spin a whole conspiracy theory about me, let’s clear this up:
Accusation: I’m running a “grift” to drive traffic to a professional website.
Reality: The link in my bio leads to… my other social media profiles. I don’t sell anything. No products, no services, no affiliate links. If this is a grift, it's the worst-funded one in history.
Laura Manach :bongoCat:If I were truly in this for profit, I’d at least slap on some Amazon affiliate links. But no—that’s not my style.
If you think this is some elaborate grift, then sure, maybe I’ll start a Patreon. Or an OnlyFans. 🙃
My only goal here is to share things I find funny. That's it. That's the whole "plan."
Laura Manach :bongoCat:About the so-called “plagiarized jokes”: welcome to the internet. Memes and one-liners have been reposted thousands of times since 2009.
Like millions of others, I often don't know the original source of a joke that’s been reposted 100,000 times. The goal isn't to claim ownership, it's to share a laugh.
That’s the entire business model—if you can even call “having fun” a business.
Lars Rosenquist@cmconseils@mastodon.social @sashag@anarres.family Unless you handcraft every joke by hand, EVERY joke is plagiarized. The whole point of a joke is to share and reshare. :)
Sasha :verifiedtransbian:@larsrosenquist@mastodon.social @cmconseils@mastodon.social And often the ideas that come to your mind have sort of a background in stuff we heard or read before.