One man’s trash is another man’s twitter. Part 2

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc. / LMMiami.com

• THE big problem that might be scaring away Twitter’s users: it is one of the most notorious open air landfills of modern culture.
• Fake news, widespread poisonous snark, harassment, hostility, hatred, impropriety, vulgarity, filth and multitudes of anonymous or bogus accounts singlehandedly dedicated to trolling fulltime are the everyday currency in the 140 character realm.
• Nevertheless, for those who have the stomach, open mind and thick skin to put up with the detritus, the little blue bird’s habitat can also be a fascinating cultural observatory full of small discoveries.
• One man’s trash is another one’s treasure.
• If you are up for the ride, check out these parody accounts devoted to compiling and sharing user generated content in the form of funny “Fails”, usually accompanied by succinct, slightly snarky captions.
• Its authors? Possibly reclusive hipstnerds still living in their parents’ basements and making ends meet in the “gig economy”, sans further ado than spending hours online to anonymously and selflessly compile obscure curiosities for the world to share.
• Disclaimer: the ironic consumption of this content can become guiltily and pervasively addictive.

The Darwin Awards
https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin

• We humans pride ourselves of being the dominant species on planet Earth.
• Here’s evidence that we might be the stupidest.

Only In Russia
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia

• Everyday life in the largest country in the world and the POTUS’ favorite ally appears to display no lack of easygoing eccentricity and optimism.
• To the extent that at times it happily flirts with collective suicide and self-mutilation.

Only in Asia.
https://twitter.com/Crazyinnasia.

• Very similar to Only in Russia, just a little less hardcore and a little more slapstick.

Scandinavian Warrior
https://twitter.com/steve-hariston

• You must be plenty fluent in Spanish and quite knowledgeable of Latin American cultural nuances to understand this one: a young-ish Peruvian man who, to judge by his profile picture, is of indigenous ancestry yet he brags about his pure aryan blood, handsome looks, ladies man prowess, playboy lifestyle, deep pockets and staunch fanhood of German soccer team Bayern Munich. Caution: this account resorts to highly corrosive forms of self-deprecating humor, usually taken to extreme levels of political incorrectness. If taken literally its incisive put downs of Latin American identity complexes and rivalries among nationalities and ethnicities can be quite offensive.

España bizarra.
https://twitter.com/EspanaBizarra

• It used to be a photographic catalog of eyesores across the Spanish geography: assorted displays of architectural ineptitude, brutalism and uglyism, silly provincial monuments and botched or incompetent urban planning. It gradually became a blistering satire of Spain’s social, cultural and political neuroses.