I think it’s safe to say that we’re in Twitter’s endgame now. I don’t think it’s going to collapse like a dying star: Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the tortured, eternally unprofitable platform, and his creditors certainly want to see some kind of return on that investment. But Musk’s annoying mercurial unseriousness, MAGA drift, and the fundamental reality that 11 figures is way too much to pay for a beleaguered social media company has me and other longtime posters coming to terms with the fact that Twitter is already well past its peak. Nothing lasts forever on the internet, especially when venture capital is involved.
I’ve got mixed emotions about it. Twitter and its clout jockeying has been bad for my mental health and terrible for my perception of reality, but some of the greatest posts ever written have appeared on my Twitter timeline, and I’ll be sad to lose that venue when it’s gone.
While the signal is still blinking, we’ve assembled a collection of our favorite gaming tweets (from the past decade-ish, after which our memories start to fail us) as a tribute to this long, strange trip.Screenshots link to the original tweet, when possible. Now let’s remember the good times, pre-emerald-mine dynast.
(Further reading: this thread by game designer Robert Yang criticizes the genre of post the tweet above is parodying.)
Best of E3
The brands™
PC Gamer and staff
And finally…
See more
