When the new CEO snaps and half the engineering org vanishes instantly
Description
Two-panel meme. Top panel shows a dark, cinematic shot of the Avengers "snap" scene: an armored figure wearing a glowing Infinity Gauntlet raises his hand, but the original face is replaced by a heavily blurred generic male face; no other text appears. Bottom panel depicts an open-plan office with exposed brick and long communal desks; a large cyan Twitter bird logo fills the back wall, a blue circular neon sign reads “Trust & Safety,” and a vertical watermark on a column says “GRANDOLDEMEMES.” Scores of employees in green shirts are dissolving into polygonal dust shards, the closest one screaming as they disintegrate, recreating the Marvel “blip” effect. The visual joke compares an executive’s decisive “snap” to sudden mass layoffs at a social-media company, critiquing corporate culture shifts, management power, and developer job insecurity
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The terrifying part of the snap wasn’t the engineers turning to dust - it was seeing the latency graphs stay flat, confirming half the team had been warm stand-bys for the org chart
Just like how Thanos needed all six Infinity Stones to reshape the universe, Elon only needed $44 billion and a sink to transform a bird app into a single-letter variable that every developer knows means 'unknown' or 'to be determined'
When your new CTO's first commit is 'git rm -rf ./employees && git rm -rf ./api/v1 && git push --force' and somehow the board calls it 'decisive leadership' while the entire developer ecosystem disintegrates like a poorly implemented distributed transaction without proper rollback mechanisms
Leadership claims they simplified operations by turning O(n) engineers into O(1) bus‑factor; the error budget evaporated along with the on‑call rotation
Elon's snap: perfectly balancing the API by rate-limiting devs to one tweet per infinity
Org-level chaos experiment: flip the “snap” feature flag, 50% of engineers disappear, QPS doesn’t, SLAs do, and you discover the runbooks lived only in the people you just marked unreachable
He parted it in half so we got both halves Comment deleted
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I couldn't understand the joke here. Could someone explain Comment deleted
He fired 75% of people in Twitter Comment deleted
Wow... fired? Comment deleted
he didn't, as of now he fired just some c-suite guys Comment deleted
> Musk has also reportedly told prospective investors in the deal that he planned to get rid of nearly 75% of the company’s staff, in a move that could disrupt every aspect of how Twitter operates. source: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/27/tech/elon-musk-twitter/index.html he didn't - yet. Comment deleted
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/26/now-elon-musk-says-he-wont-fire-75-of-twitters-staff/ > not yet that's an important detail right here Comment deleted
I - that's what I said. Comment deleted
and another one Comment deleted
25% left Comment deleted
Any specific reason? Comment deleted
completely rebuilding the company with his own values in focus Comment deleted
so, a xenophobe right-leaning rich people cult Comment deleted
this is cope Comment deleted
for musk or me? Because musk is absolutely what I described him as. Comment deleted
From you. "No censorship hurts my feelings" 😢 Comment deleted
there's a difference between censorship and moderation. Twitter was bad before, and it's about to get much worse… Not like I care lol, I'm not on twitter. Comment deleted
I'm holding out hope that it gets bad enough to be disbanded entirely. But also, twitter always outsourced moderators to third parties, so that 75% doesn't include them. I'm still a bit baffled how twitter has 8k employees to work on what is essentially a rather simple website concept. And then I see them rolling out features like cotweeting, which no one had ever wanted, and it starts to feel like the engineers are just lost on what actually needs doing? Comment deleted
Musk will censor twitter as well lmao. When people got angry 'cause of his pro-russian bullshit he claimed it were bots so screw him Comment deleted
wow, I like where it's going Comment deleted
Most likely many employees would leave though, some cuz "Tesla man bad", some cuz he would like to have return on investment and will probably make them work instead of sipping matcha all day Comment deleted
Dorsey was filmed literally saying they had to eliminate tweets in favor of republicans. I'm not even from the USA, but that's clearly censorship, not moderation. Twitter was (and maybe will be?) a partisan and propaganda tool. Comment deleted
Btw why the hell devs here are so pro-elon ? That megamind forced all his employees to work from office (very arguable decision to me) but he didn't prepared enough desks to work. He's no way better than CEOs of other corporations so what's the reason for the excitement ? Comment deleted
not everyone, just proud owners of fedoras Comment deleted