Static strings look too stiff? Say no more! 🎸... Virtual guitar strings actually vibrate and bend! 🤘 Bet guitarists are gonna love this😜 #GuitarMocap #ギタリストVTubershow more

WOOOAHHHH!! I bet you didn’t see this coming😱! We... saw the love you showed for WOOAH and are excited to introduce them to ShowKase❤️! Charms and performance are no stranger to this group, so WOOAH is ready to connect with their international fans🙌 Did we make you say woah yet🤭?! Good because WOOAH will continue to shock you with more exciting content❤️! Stay tuned for more! #WOOAH #우아 #ShowKase #KPOP_ShowKaseshow more

I had a dream so i just woke up... and did this. I figured how to make #Vroid vtubers with multiple eyes that actually work with Blendshapes! No more extra eyes drawn in your face texture. All my commissions are now 15% OFF due an emergency. DM if you're interested, RT is love too!🩵show more

I played 20 Hours of WWE 2K26 early access... and i can say The weapon physics this year are incredibly well done. They may feel a bit goofy at times, but that actually adds to the fun and makes the experience even more enjoyable. There’s also a surprise feature that I think you’re going to love and surprisingly, no one is talking about it yet. 👀🔥 Stay tuned Tomorrow ☁️ #WWE2K26 #WWERawshow more

Okay, this blew my mind This is a can... of black olives “with no artificial colors.” These are the olives we’ve all eaten in America They aren’t black. Not even close, but they taste exactly the same The color is more of a lighter/ medium brown shade rather than a dark black color Of course I had to look into this, Traditional super dark black olives we know in America are picked green and unripe. They’re treated with lye, exposed to oxygen, and then stabilized with ferrous gluconate. This fixes a consistent, deep black color The black olives we all know and love should actually look like this in the video…..show more

An open letter to chibi 💕 Vtuber : Chibi,... in my career as a manager, no one ever surprised me as you. I never saw someone like you. You are someone very professional and passionate for what you do. I truly have no words to say right now besides that I love your content and how you deal with your career. If I am a good manager today, you should know that one of my biggest inspirations is you. This simple mention of my name on your stream could be something really simple to you, but it truly made my day. I do hope we have the opportunity to talk to each other someday. I would love to learn a lot of more things with you. Keep being that amazing creator you are! I bet you are an amazing person as well. Keep doing it with the love you always have! 🩷show more

THE ENGLISH LYRICS TO THE SONG 😭🥹🤍 "On a... night without stars in the sky. It's just an ordinary, quiet night. The atmosphere around me doesn't help at all. I want to take your hand and hold it tight, to tell you how much I love you. But I've never managed to say it out loud. Because usually, I'm not good with words. You probably know and understand this better than anyone. And the reason I don't say anything sweet or touching like others do. It's because I believe a love song, the one I give to you. Should only be one, just enough. If there are too many, those sweet words might lose their meaning. I want you to know. Let us speak through our eyes, every time we look at each other. Let you feel and know that I'm never far away. The stars in the sky fade because of the city's bright lights. But they've never truly gone anywhere. Because usually, I'm not good with words. You probably know and understand this better than anyone. And the reason I don't say anything sweet or touching like others do, it's because I believe a love song, the one I give to you. Should only be one, just enough. If there are too many, those sweet words might lose their meaning. Just like the word love, if said too often, I'm afraid you won't feel as moved as before. Though I don't say it much, deep in my heart. This person loves you more than anyone. I want you to know. That's the only one love song for you. The song I wrote for you will never lose its meaning. Even if I'm no longer here, or a hundred years pass by, my love will stay with you forever. Because I believe a love song, the one I give to you, should only be one, just enough. If there are too many, those sweet words might lose their meaning. Just like the word love, if said too often. I'm afraid you won't feel as moved as before. Though I don't say it much, deep in my heart. This person loves you more than anyone. I want you to know." #ENGLOTinfinityTourinEUROPE25 #อิงฟ้ามหาชน #EngfaWaraha #ชาล็อตออสติน #CharlotteAustin #อิงล็อต​ #englotshow more

This salad is gonna offend someone. Too green. Too... crunchy. Too many beans. Too much real food. They’ll say: “Where’s the cheese?” “Where’s the meat?” “That’s rabbit food.” Meanwhile… this dense bean salad is quietly doing what ultra-processed food never could: ✔ keeps you full ✔ doesn’t spike you ✔ tastes better the longer it sits ✔ actually fuels your body If your food doesn’t look like this, don’t argue with me — argue with your energy levels. Simple ingredients. No nonsense. Built to eat all week. ⸻ DENSE BEAN SALAD (WHAT’S IN IT): •Chickpeas (the base — dense, filling, protein-packed) •Cherry tomatoes, halved •Green grapes, sliced •Fresh spinach, chopped •Fresh basil, chopped •Yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced •Red onion, thinly sliced DRESSING: •Olive oil •Fresh lemon juice or red wine vinegar •Salt •Black pepper That’s it. No sugar. No mystery sauces. ⸻ HOW TO MAKE IT (2 MINUTES): 1.Rinse and drain chickpeas well. 2.Chop all produce into bite-size pieces. 3.Add everything to a large bowl. 4.Drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice (or vinegar). 5.Season generously with salt and pepper. 6.Toss until glossy and well coated. 7.Let it sit 10–15 minutes (this is where the magic happens). Eat immediately or refrigerate — it gets better the next day. #dbs #densebeansalad #saladshow more

You know that moment when you're testing video models... and something just... floats across the frame that shouldn't? Yeah, Kling 3.0 apparently got tired of that too. Fast Company's piece on the new Chinese models actually gets into why Kling feels different. Not because the pixels are prettier — but because stuff finally moves like it has weight. Gravity exists. Objects occlude properly. A car turning actually follows an arc instead of just... teleporting sideways. Someone in the comments called it "directing instead of gambling" and that's exactly right. Old workflow: type prompt, pull lever, pray the physics gods smile on you. New workflow: you actually have some damn control. The character locking thing is huge too. Elements feature lets you upload a reference video and it holds identity across shots. No more "wait why does his face look like a different person now" every time the camera angle changes. For short-form series creators, that's basically a "we'll fix it in post" delete button. Still detectable if you pixel-peep. But here's the thing — the threshold moved. Average viewers? They're not gonna catch it anymore. Only the 24/7 screen-staring crowd is still in the "definitely AI" camp.show more

The era of the specialist is over. Full-stack GTM... athletes are taking over. For too long, GTM has been divided into specialists, creating a soul-crushing web of dependencies: - Sales needs a custom business case to close a deal, but Marketing is slammed. - Marketing has a winning campaign idea, but design and engineering can’t prioritize it. - CRO has 5 ideas for increasing sales productivity, but no GTM engineers to execute. In GTM, speed is everything and dependencies are the enemy. That's why we're giving GTM teams the full-stack capabilities they need to close revenue. Welcome to the era of the GTM Athlete. These are people who don't ask permission or wait in queues. They can do whatever is needed to take deals from cold to closed—research accounts, launch ads, create a business case, generate tailored follow-ups, and close deals. Sales rep brainstorms with their champion how to convince the CISO. 30 mins later sends them a polished business case with security architecture and ROI. By lunch time, she launches ads to the entire buying committee. The next day, the rep presents a custom deck to key decision makers and gets verbal commitment. No more begging. No more waiting. No more losing. Our vision is to build the AI Swiss Army knife that turns specialists into GTM athletes. Today we are launching a critical capability that enables this vision: an AI agent that can create anything customer facing. You can now create executive business cases, deal follow-ups, landing pages, ABM campaigns and more, all by yourself. Unlike other AI tools, our agent plugs into your brand and data to create materials that actually look and sound like you. Sign up on our website. We're letting people off the waitlist every day, with 30 days of unlimited AI usage. I’d love to hear your feedback.show more

Red pill drop #6: Warning: some of these pills... that I'll be dropping for the foreseeable future. Will be a hard pill to swallow. Some would like to wait until the movie is over to get all of the Intel in 1 drop. If that is you, feel free to ignore these threads. Warning: The video at the end of this drop is very graphic. Proceed with caution. Red cross and abortion clinics are scams. Doesn't make a difference if you're for them or against. Whatever, your reason for using them makes no difference. The cabal controls them all. The blood is harvested from them and sent to the red cross, to be processed. The aborted fetuses and babies are sold to the Black market starting from $300 and up. The older the aborted baby, the higher the price goes. They are then sent to foreign factories, via green container ship[evergreen] for organ harvesting. That is what the video shows. So Proceed with caution upon viewing. In logistics[transportation] the cargo container ships are color coded. Blue is military[govt] red is consumer goods, white is for factory parts, yellow for chemicals, green are for human trafficking. Whether, organs, blood, people, etc. The blood processed is used to make a chemical compound called Adrenochrome. This chemical is used by cabal members to keep looking younger. The adrenal glands produce adrenaline. This is used for oxidation to produce this drug. The cabal believes the younger the child, the more potent the drug Adrenochrome can be. The more potent rich blood they need is actually from Africans and/or African Americans. Which is why they produce famine throughout Africa, and release diseases there, are sorts of vaccines, etc, than any place in the world for genocide. Just look at Haiti. They get most of the children from there. Predominantly, all of the abortion clinics are predominantly in African American neighborhoods. And when they're done with them. We'll this part I'm hesitant to say. Without posting graphic details. Let's just say. They wear and dance with their faces at parties. Then partake of it, like delicacies. It's where they get the tradition of Black Face. The Caucasian children are the main ones sex trafficked. When they're done. Again, without going into explicit details. Let's just say they're partook of. This cabal is sick. All will be exposed. All will be revealed. No deals. And no quarters given. All will get the rope for the world to see.show more

This is for the person who struggles with their... body image. You are not alone. All the time, I wish I had even a tiny bit of consistent confidence in my body. You know what I’ve realized? I can love myself no matter what my body looks like. I can trust myself no matter my size. I can care for myself no matter what other people think of me. Can I say how hard that is when people tear me down in comments or messages? To still love myself regardless of how I’m treated? That’s a mission. It’s actually the mission we’re all on. My body can be sacred to me even if I’m self-conscious about it. Sometimes I wear something so beautiful that it reminds me that I’m beautiful too… Because what’s on the inside is what will radiate to the outside. Every day, I focus on being kind or sharing a helping hand. My body is a vessel for what I believe to be true about the world and that’s that everyone can make a difference- big or small. In a world of unfortunate circumstances- here’s a reminder: we are not defined by our circumstances but by our courage to redefine our circumstances. Sending you love today 💕 if you’re struggling, know you are not aloneshow more

Today America roots for Norway, and I need you... to understand exactly why. We love an underdog. It is not a preference. It is a genetic condition. Two hundred and fifty-three years ago, a handful of colonials with no navy, no army, and no chance decided to throw a tea party in Boston Harbor to spite the largest empire the world had ever seen. An empire the sun never set on. An empire that could have ended us in an afternoon. And when the greatest military on earth said you cannot possibly do that, our answer was, and remains, hold my beer. Then we picked a fight we had no business winning. Then we declared ourselves free before we had actually won anything. Then we went out and made it true. We turned 250 last week. Still here. Still loud. That is the whole American operating system. The impossible odds. The comeback. The redemption. We do not just like that story, we are that story, and we will root for it anywhere we find it. It is why a bunch of college kids beating a Soviet hockey machine in 1980 still makes grown men cry in bars. So today. Norway. Five and a half million people. A country with more sheep than starting lineups. Playing England, a founding nation of the sport, on the biggest stage there is. Now let me be fair. We love England. Truly. Best ally we have got, and I say that with a full heart. Though the Japanese are gaining fast, so do not get comfortable. We love the Scots. We love the Northern Irish. We love our drunk cousins in Ireland, and yes I am lumping you all in, because half of you moved here anyway and you hate the English for reasons we are all familiar with. Nobody loves Wales. Nobody knows Wales exists. Nobody can understand a word of it. But I digress. Because today is not about any of that. Today is about five million Vikings walking into a stadium against an empire, with everyone on earth telling them they cannot possibly do this. You know exactly what we say to that. Let’s row!!! NORWAY!!!!!!show more

Is this a new migration or a new departure?... Or is it just one of thousands in a series of sufferings we are experiencing? Look... it's a valley of bodies marching in the sand... They're not marching toward a dream... they're marching toward a bag of flour... Everything here marches with the weight of famine... Faces are broken, but feet walk... Hearts are empty, but arms are outstretched... This isn't a line for food... this is a line for execution... From a distance, the scene looks like a huge crowd chasing life and disappointment.. The sand slopes are witnesses, and the clouds are witnesses, and everyone who has gone there and looked has witnessed the graves of people whose names are not written on their graves.. O sleeping world.. Do you know what it means for thousands of people to gather for a bag of flour?? Do you know what it means to sell your dignity, bet your body, and struggle with your hunger, not to live, but to postpone your death? This land does not scream.. This land rages with anger and oppression.. Under every foot is a story, and under every bag of flour is a mother's sigh, or a farewell kiss that wasn't fulfilled... or a martyr's bone that hasn't yet been buried... Here, people walk in a mass funeral, no one knowing who has died and who will die in the coming minutes... The scene is too great to describe and more painful than any language can express.. Here we are tempted with food to be killed.. Last night, boxes came in. I was intending to go feed my family and children, but I had a long shift at the hospital.. Maybe I'll get lucky in the next few days.. the prices are crazy... the black market is completely merciless... When you enter the markets, you feel indescribable cruelty in all transactions, as if you were in a battle. There is no mercy, no consideration, and no sense of the crisis or the people. First, you are required to pay in cash only; they do not accept transfers via the bank's app. Second, they require new currency, otherwise they will not accept it. Third, prices are astronomical, far beyond people's means, for no justification other than greed. My friends and loved ones.. I am on the verge of collapse... your support is what keeps me on my feet... All financial plans fail when dealing with the black market. No matter how much we store and save, everything will be exhausted. The war has been going on for two years and all resources have been exhausted.. I've noticed that support has declined recently. I realize that it's a difficult time and I appreciate that, but what we're going through is more difficult than I can describe.. I would be very grateful for your support to get me through this difficult period.. Nothing makes us learn life better than experience...and nothing makes us more silent than disappointment. What kills a person the most is not hunger or war, but the feeling of being invisible, that no one pays attention to his tears and no one hears his voice. #GazaForcedFamine #GazaUnderAttack #GazaNeedsBread #GazaGenocide #GazaStarvingshow more

𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗙𝗧𝘀. People lost... interest in NFTs that had no reason to exist after mint. That is why Wingston caught my attention. Rally is introducing Wingston as a free mint, but the interesting part is not the price. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁. For a long time, most collections followed the same pattern: Build hype → mint → disappear. Wingston looks like it is trying something different. Instead of treating holders like spectators, it connects ownership with participation inside a living ecosystem. From what has been shared so far, Wingston is built around three things: • 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 Holding becomes more than collecting. Participation can create long term value. • 𝗩𝗜𝗣 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 Early opportunities, ecosystem access, and a more connected experience. • 𝗥𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁 Your activity and contribution can actually strengthen your position inside Rally. That changes the mindset. You are not just collecting an image. You are building presence. And the part I like most: This is a free mint. No pressure to buy your way in. No race to overpay. No requirement to gamble capital before understanding the product. 𝗦𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀? Simple. Join Rally. Enter campaigns. Create original content. Earn rewards. Build your profile. Keep contributing. Your whitelist opportunity comes from participation, not luck. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. Creators who usually sit on the sidelines now have a real way to enter while getting rewarded for the work they already do. 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲.𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲.𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗻.𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆. If Rally executes this correctly, Wingston could become one of those collections people look back on and say: This was where NFTs started feeling useful again. Watching this one closely.show more

Wooyoung’s message to Hongjoong: 🐈‍⬛ The way you’re always... growing and becoming cooler and cooler - I feel so, so proud that you’re part of our team. You really make me think, “Ah, he is the biggest treasure of our team.” 🐿️ I’m confused now~ 🐈‍⬛ We’ve been preparing a lot together for this concert, and first of all, I just want to say you worked really hard. And in “Wake Up” (최면), if you look at your rap… 🐿️ Ah~ I think I know who this is… I can totally tell. 🐈‍⬛ There’s this killer rap part in there, and I think ATINY are really going to love it. 🐿️ The way he’s talking… feels kinda familiar! 🐈‍⬛ I think this concert will really show off your dancing too, so please prepare well and don’t get hurt. 🐿️ Huh..? What’s going on… 🐈‍⬛ I hope you can show ATINY a great side of you. 🐿️ Ah, this is confusing. 🐈‍⬛ Ah… 🐿️ Ah? 🐈‍⬛ I’m sure it’s mentally draining with so much to learn, but take care of your mental state, okay? 🐿️ That’s definitely it - especially that last part. Even with the voice disguised, I can hear it. Ah, Jung Wooyoung, this is definitely… 🐈‍⬛ Don’t get sick! Don’t go around all day holding your stomach going “Arghhh”- do well, okay? ♡ 🐿️ Now I get why he kept going “Arghhh.” Yeah, this is totally Jung Wooyoung. Q: At which point did you realize who it was? 🐿️ It was when “Wake Up” got mentioned- because Wooyoung had said he wanted to hear a fast rap, and that’s why I wrote that rap for “Wake Up”. Also, there was this one day I was really sick while we were preparing for the concert, and Wooyoung stayed by my side and really looked after me. Hongjoong’s message to Wooyoung: 🐿️ Wooyoung-ah, even though you don’t show it, you always take care of me in your own way. And when I get all stiff or too serious, you joke around with me and loosen me up - thank you for that. Please keep looking after me in the future too. Fighting~! video cr. cozy_azshow more

กี่ครั้งก็ได้ (Countless) ​Artists: Pooh & Pavel ​ 🐱: I... didn't intend to stare at you for that long But my eyes just refuse to look anywhere else There are so many people here tonight But it’s like this whole room is just you and me, oh oh ~ no no ooh ​🐶: I don't know why, my heart beats for you every single time Every time we walk together... ​ 🐱: If you have some time tonight Please stop by and see me, I'll be waiting (Pooh: hey hey) ​(Together 🐶🐱) No matter how many times, it’s still not enough Can I ask to be with you one more time? I don’t know if you feel the same But I want you, just you, all night long ​No matter how many times, ooh I still want to go on a date with this person You are such a good, good thing As long as it's you, anything goes. ​🐶: I didn't say a word, but your smile says it all No need for any explanation I already know that something is about to start ​Life slows down, the music grooves Just a little move from you and the whole room moves too ​ 🐱: If you have some time tonight Please stop by and see me, I'll be waiting (🐶: hey hey) ​(Together 🐶🐱) No matter how many times, it’s still not enough Can I ask to be with you one more time? I don’t know if you feel the same But I want you, just you, all night long ​No matter how many times, ooh I still want to go on a date with this person You’re such a good, good thing As long as it's you, anything goes. ​(Together 🐶🐱) No matter how many times, it’s still not enough Can I ask to be with you one more time? I don’t know if you feel the same But I want you, just you, all night long ​No matter how many times, ooh I still want to go on a date with this person You are such a good, good thing As long as it's you, anything goes. #กี่ครั้งก็ได้Countless #PoohPavel #ppoohkt #pavelphoom #CHANGEMUSIC #CHANGE2561show more

CFO: what's with this ad? it has driven ZERO... revenue. are you crazy? CMO: actually, it's one of our best performers CFO: in terms of WHAT? CMO: engagements, especially follows CFO: how does that relate to revenue? we're focused on profit. wasting money doesn't support this focus CMO: look at our results. revenue growth is re-accelerating, and our EBITDA margin is nearly doubling. something's working CFO: no way it's because of this ad CMO: i think it is—not just this ad, but the campaign. it's great for our brand and earning high-quality engagements like follows CFO: heartily disagree. our growth is due to COGS savings and new products CMO: true, but this has also contributed significantly. we've measured how these engagements lead to long-term growth in the types of high-margin purchase behaviors we want more of CFO: what are our "highest-margin purchase behaviors"? CMO: purchases from people who search for our brand name or enter our URL directly. brand is likely the primary purchase driver CFO: fair, but how is that different from ad clicks leading to purchases? CMO: it's different. while both are valuable, purchases from ad clicks often focus on product, price, or promotions, whereas branded searches indicate the brand brand is a bigger driver CFO: are you saying revenue from ad clicks is bad? CMO: not at all. but we've relied too much on purchases via paid clicks to drive growth—nearly all our growth came from them in the last two years CFO: really? hmm. but what's your point? CMO: as shown (shares the measurement data), revenue per session and lifetime value from ad clicks are lower than from branded organic searches CFO: where's this data? why haven't i seen it? CMO: i send it weekly in slack. CFO: (embarrassed) ummm, busted? CMO: all good—maybe now you'll open it. this campaign helps balance our approach, generating an emotional connection and reaching people we'd never hit with our conversion-optimized spend. it fills the funnel in a measurable, precise way. and yes, as an added benefit, it increases our direct response efficiency and effectiveness, but the under-appreciated and more important benefit is that it has measurably driven more of those high-margin purchase behaviors we want CFO: how do you know? CMO: we see how follower growth drives incremental revenue from organic search, direct sessions, and organic social referrals over the following six months. we can quantify revenue and ROAS just like our direct response campaigns CFO: why haven't i seen this data? CMO: it's in the same report i send you weekly CFO: (scans report for two minutes... awkward silence) this is awesome. keep doing what you're doing CMO: (surprised) excuse me? CFO: actually, spend more CMO: well, look at you—this is quite the surprise. appreciate the excitement, but i'm testing and scaling in a way that aligns with the process we follow CFO: let's speed up that process a bit, shall we? CMO: gladlyshow more

241202 V’s Instagram Stories Hello ARMYs, are you having... a warm end of year season? It’s a relief that the weather isn’t too cold yet! It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve greeted you with a song. For both the duet I did with Hyoshinie hyung, whom I like so much, and the Bing Crosby carol that will be released soon, a person that I have so much respect for—all the happy memories that I had while preparing for these projects come to mind. And so it seems it’s already December. Actually, the reason I’m leaving a message here today is because Yeontanie recently left us to go on a long journey to puppyland in the clouds. I pondered a lot about how to say this, but it felt right to share it with all our ARMYs, who have always sent him so much love. I would be thankful if ARMYs could each spare a thought for Yeontanie so that he’ll be happy even among the stars. I hope that your end-of-year season is filled with warmth and that you’ll be able to tell the people you love that you love them one more time. I hope you’ll all stay healthy until we meet again! I love you, thank you. Trans cr; Faith @ bts-trans © TAKE OUT WITH FULL CREDITSshow more

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve... Read “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump? A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate Whiteshow more