• Seattle DOT Twitter puts Scumbag-meme hats on a traffic camera photo, Twitter gets mad
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Source: [url]http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/backlash-after-sdot-posts-scumbag-hat-tweet/nfp3F/[/url] [img]http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/photos/2014/05/05/9a/0e/scumbagtweet.jpg[/img] [i]Pictured: An unfortunate misunderstanding of how memes work.[/i] [quote]SEATTLE — In an attempt to make followers laugh, the Seattle Department of Transportation tweeted a photo with commuters and “scumbag hats” Monday morning, which resulted in backlash. The photo was a shot of gridlock traffic on the West Seattle Bridge and it included several brown “scumbag hats” photoshopped on many vehicles.[/quote] [quote=City of Seattle communications director Jeff Reading]“It’s never acceptable for a city employee to ridicule members of the public. I understand the tweet in question was meant humorously, but many — myself included — took it quite differently. Mayor Murray holds a high standard of respect for communications with the public across all city departments. We will ensure that this type of offending humor is not repeated in communications to the public by City of Seattle employees.”[/quote]
i mean it's not that funny but seriously people are butthurt over nothing.
First world problem. Oh my god its so offensive people are startled!
[QUOTE=opti2000;44734646]First world problem. Oh my god its so offensive people are startled![/QUOTE] Although it might seem like a public "overreaction," it's still unprofessional.
If they hadn't said scumbag hat, people wouldn't say anything.
I don't get it
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;44735038]I don't get it[/QUOTE] All traffic participants are scumbags for being/causing traffic ...? I think
How dare a company have some kind of humour! Absolutely preposterous!
[QUOTE]I understand the tweet in question was meant humorously, but many — myself included — took it quite differently[/QUOTE] This seems more insulting.
[QUOTE=Chinook249;44735089]All traffic participants are scumbags for being/causing traffic ...? I think[/QUOTE] More of poking at traffic as an entity, rather than the members that make it up.
[QUOTE=zeromancer;44735134]How dare a company have some kind of humour! Absolutely preposterous![/QUOTE] It's not a privately owned company though. This is someone getting paid by my tax dollars to run a twitter account indirectly calling everyone who drives in seattle a scumbag Although it really doesn't matter in any way, it's still an insult.
who's the scumbag traffic at large for being trafficky?
I'm insulted by the quality of the joke
i'm insulted because reasons people these days i swear
People say worse shit waiting in those traffic jams. It's really not a big deal.
Just think: The Department of Transportation is using "humorous" concepts that originated from 4chan. 4chan. To the government.
If I were to see this photo about my morning commute down I-66, I would want to see more hats.
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