i see the one for 64 made it past 400 upvotes, so i predict this will eventually make it to 512 but i am skeptical that the next one will be able to reach 1024 without vote stuffing (and please don't do that)
The basis of this joke is the Simplified-vs-Traditional character sets for Chinese languages, but, there actually is a thing called Basic English which is sometimes called Simple English and which is used on the Simple English Wikipedia.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240303071843/https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/commits/master/
-> latest commit hash as of march 3rd was 15e6e48bef0216480661444a8d8b348c1cca47bb
-> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15e6e48bef0216480661444a8d8b348c1cca47bb (many copies of the repo exist)
the option of a subscription is fine IMO
Here is a comprehensive post about this (at an awful community I would ordinarily not link to).
It's noteworthy that she has been saying these things since 2021 and there has apparently been zero media coverage of it, including no mention of it in the initial news reports about him being fired yesterday.
spoiler
i'm pretty sure the recent trend started yesterday with this post, but
@LoneGansel@lemmy.world was on it two weeks ago and @bungobingo82@sh.itjust.works was three months ago
some spammer made 20 accounts on different instances and just made a lot of simultaneous posts with the title that is depicted in this image.
thanks for the laugh OP. and thanks to whoever flagged this so i could see it in the mod queue while resolving the deluge of reports about this spammer.
also: this is my 1000th comment.
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