The Josh Innes Show - "For You" Rant

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

I'm of the belief that the "For You" tab on X is the worst thing to ever happen to society. "For You" shows everything you hate and waits for you to react. It's outrageous! I see that a Houston media member retweeted a story about the Texans relocating and didn't even bother to read the contest of the story...People are truly lazy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am convinced that the worst thing to ever happen to the world was the for you feature on X or Twitter or X formally known as Twitter. Because it says it's for you, but really it should have for you dot dot dot to get really pissed off or for you to get pissed off or things that will really make the day worse. Dot, dot, dot for you. Like it's like, and I get that that's the point of it. Cause you don't spend billions of dollars on something like Elon Musk spent billions of dollars on,

on X for it to not make money. And part of making money is engagements and people seeing advertisements and people sticking to Twitter and people are addicted to Twitter. Just like you had a bunch of dopes that were like, I'll never watch the NFL again because those boys was kneeling for the anthem and they don't like America.

And if you don't like America, I don't like football and blah, blah, blah. All those people that said they wouldn't watch football yet. Hey, they're still watching football. Why are they still watching football? Because they're addicted to football. It's the same thing with X. These people are addicted.

Addicted. They're so addicted to the For You category on X. They can't get enough of it. They can't. They're addicted. So all these people that were like, oh, owns x this place is vile and it's filled with little mini hitlers and racists and misogynists and everything else oh no i'm never gonna go to twitter ever again twitter is terrible i'm not going i'm gonna go to some other site that's where i'm going i am never gonna help

that little miniature hitler elon musk ever again and i'm not going to help that little miniature Hitler, Elon Musk ever again. And I'm not going to X ever again. And then of course, they're all still addicted to using X because they're addicted to people seeing their shit. They're addicted to fighting with people on Twitter. They're addicted to arguing and bitching and complaining. And that's why just like people aren't going to stop watching the NFL because dudes were kneeling for the anthem. People aren't going to stop using X no matter who owns it just like uh when you know other people that weren't Elon Musk owned x and all the right-wing people were like I'm never doing this again and we're going to our own we're going to truth social or whatever the fuck nobody went

to that shit nobody cared it's x is where it's. They're addicted to it and people are 100% addicted to these things and it's reality, right? So what does Elon Musk and his people have to do? What do they have to do? Well, they have to get you engaged and have to keep you engaged and they have to keep you looking at shit and they have to keep you on the app and they have to keep you talking, engagements, engagements, likes, retweets, responses. That's what they need. So the for you tab on X, right? And I'm sure there's some algorithm and they see shit you tweet about, like there's this algorithm forms the for you based on shit you've tweeted about recently, things you retweet, things you respond to all that but I am convinced it is the worst thing

that has ever happened to society arguably the worst thing just like I'm a believer that social media by and large is pretty terrible particularly twitter slash x I don't think instagram is all that bad instagram is sort of fine I don't think t think TikTok is all that bad in terms of what it's done to society. You can bitch about how it's created, you know, all these viral things and people becoming famous for doing nothing. Or who's the dude that plays for the 76ers that does dopey dances on TikTok? Like you can bitch about that and say it's annoying, but I don't think TikTok has ruined society. And I don't believe that Instagram has ruined society. I do believe that Twitter is aiding in the rot of society and aiding in rot of the country and the world. Let's talk more about this in a second after we play a couple commercials.

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But anyway, my For You on Twitter, right? Now, if it was truly something I was interested in, if the 4U category or the 4U tab truly featured things that I find interesting and that bring me joy, it would be videos of like soldiers getting greeted by dogs when they come home from combat or people smoking beautiful briskets or Night Ranger videos, like things that really bring me joy, right? But it's not. So while the idea, like in your mind, you're hearing for you, which means things you'll like, it's not things you'll like.

It's things that are set up to piss you off, right? So lately, my for you has been showing me a lot of shit about Angel Reese. And most of it is Angel Reese shit from like weird Angel Reese fan people, right? So like I'll scroll through my for you and there'll be some video of Angel Reese like in slow motion pulling up for a jumper. And the video is not in slow motion. She's just fucking slow pulling up for jumpers because women's basketball is slow and she like Angel Reese working on that pull-up game and like she pulls up and knocks down a three they probably don't show you the 400 jumpers she missed but hey here's this one working on that pull-up game with like fire emoji and heart eyes emojis and shit and as I've told you

I have nothing against Angel Reese I don't care I defended Angel Reese when it was obvious that her story became a big thing because she's black, Caitlyn Clark is white. That's reality. That's why that became a story. But now that that's over, I don't give a shit. But my for you, which is designed to piss you off and force you to respond, right? I guarantee you if you're a diehard Eagles fan, you know what shit you're getting? You're probably getting like Cowboys shit or you're getting like

people bitching about the tush push or something like that you're not getting hey our team rules and let's be friends you're not getting any of that you're getting the negative about your team you're getting the negative about shit you enjoy because they want you to respond it is toxic and it is terrible I I am never thinking about the WNBA. I don't care about Angel Reese. I don't care about this unrivaled league. I don't care about her burger at McDonald's, which Jelly did say was good, by the way. I don't care about any of that. What is on my mind? I'm out here. Hey, if it was truly a for you, it would be, here's radio jobs that are open and you have a legit chance of getting. That would be what my for you would say. But instead, it's Angel Reese. And it's basically for you finds the dumbest humans on the planet that they know you can't help but respond to them.

And they're seemingly so stupid that you wouldn't even think they're real. And maybe there aren't or maybe they are not real people. The thing about Twitter, and you don't see it as much on Instagram. You don't see it as much on TikTok, although I'm not on TikTok all that often. But the amazing part of this is seeing shit from people that seems so dumb that no human could actually feel this way and that's what gets you to respond

or that's what gets your dander up, gets your ire up, gets you angry, right? It has you sitting there going, fuck, these people are so stupid. I have to fucking respond. I don't want to respond. But it's so stupid. But then you tell yourself, there's no way they actually believe this, so what? But then, like, I saw one the other day.

There was some dude at a women's basketball game that had a sign that said, Angel Reese stinks. And because he's white, it was automatically racist, right? Like Angel Reese stinks. Now, of course, the whole world tells you that we need to treat women's basketball like it's men's basketball. We have to treat female athletes like they are, you know, their male counterparts. We need to treat it like it's, you know, something real,

where I guarantee you LeBron hears a thousand times worse than Angel Reese hears every day. I guarantee that Pat Mahomes hears worse. I guarantee you that Mahomes hears worse. I guarantee that Bryce Harper hears worse. Oh, but some guy had the audacity. Some honky-ass motherfucker had the audacity to hold up a sign that said Angel Reese stinks. And since he's white and he doesn't like Angel Reese, it's automatically race.

They couldn't accept the fact that maybe Angel Reese has made such a big impact on society in a way that people talk about her. That's what happens when you become popular. That's what happens when you become famous. When you become famous, you're going to have people that hate you. People struggle to understand this. Fame is not a guarantee of belovedness or love, right?

There are people that are so fucking popular and nobody cares about them. Or there are people that are so fucking popular and nobody cares about them or there are people that are popular that people hate there are people that are popular and famous that people love like that's just the way it goes you're gonna have lovers you're gonna have haters like in this world you're not gonna have a hundred percent success rate with people so people are going to be annoyed by you that now i'm having an angel reese argument here but like if your character is to play the fucking villain, and I saw her tweet something because her tweets pop up. I don't even follow Angel Reese, but my for you is nothing but fucking Angel Reese.

How do I change the algorithm? Do I just have to tweet tits, tits, tits, tits, tits, briskets, briskets, briskets, Night Ranger, Night Ranger, Night Ranger. If I tweet that enough, can I stop seeing Angel Reese's tweets and videos of her shooting jump shots? For the love of God, make it go away. But like if you're Angel Reese, I saw her tweet like, I thank my mama, that's why I got thick skin. Then why the fuck do you cry when people talk shit about you that's part of being the villain if rick flair walked out every day and was like woo

and they're like and you're looking at rick flair and rick flair's whole character is we're the four horsemen and i i'm a limousine rylan roller all this shit if he walked out and was like i used to have a limousine i but I don't anymore. But, you know, woo. Shit, you know. I'm a Casio wearing. You go driving. Don't get no sugar, son of a gun. He'd be like, oh.

Okay. But that's not the character. You decided to play a villain character. And when things are going your way, you're all like, hey, I'm sassy. But then whenever things aren't going your way, it's, people are mean to me and I don't know why people are mean to me. I'm just trying to make it in this world. That's part of being successful. Success breeds contempt. You're going to have people who love you. You're going to have people who hate you. That's the nature of the beast. But of course, my Twitter, my ex, formerly known as Twitter, is just nothing but people fighting on behalf of Angel Reese. And anybody who disagrees with them is clearly racist. And it's like, my God, it's tiresome. Why do you people do this? Like,

what do you do with your day? What is your life? What do you have going on in your life that you can just sit around all day and like there was one oh it was fucking hysterical it was a video this wasn't even angel reese it was just like three gals from the wnba that i've never fucking heard of and they're doing like some dancing video on tiktok or some shit and some woman retweets it and goes man the wnba is so much more fun than the men's I'm like have you ever watched videos of the two of them back to back tell me the next time that that Angel Reese dunks on some guy from the free throw line tell me the next time Angel Reese jumps over a fucking car

whenever Angel Reese jumps over a car then come to me and go like you know what that was fun I'm sorry that I'm not in me I'd like i don't know i'm not turned on by a bunch of missed fucking layups and shit like it didn't do that for me but like it's just fascinating and they do it for this like they just post dumb shit that they know you'll react to and i know that's what it is and for the most part i'm able to avoid it but i'm bothered by the fact it exists i'm bothered by the fact that there is somebody pulling strings somewhere that's like, listen, we just want people to be pissed off all the time. So let's make sure that even though they try to avoid it, they see nothing but the dumbest of the dumb,

the lowest hanging fruit, the shit that we know that when they read it, they'll think it is so mind numbingly stupid that they will feel compelled to react. And that is what the for you is. Like I saw some guy, and I think the guy is some sort of legit, maybe a legit media guy. I'm not positive, but I think he's like a legit media guy in Houston. I say legit, who knows what legit is anymore anyway, but his name is Michael Schwab. And I don't follow him. Astro's writer, the Juicebox Journal, which is fun because there's no juice box anymore. Politico and USA Today alum, native Houstonian, TCU grad, Shipley's not Shipley. All right, let's see here, Michael Schwab, Astro's writer and the Juicebox journal. How is it that if you worked for legitimate news outlets

like USA Today and Politico, although that's debatable now, but Politico and USA Today, somebody paid you to be a journalist. How is it that in my feed, I see you retweeting a story that says Texans considering relocation due to massive stadium renovations. And you tweet, I've seen this before and and it's not fun. To lose the Oilers was devastating. To lose the Texans, it would be horrific. They need to figure this out. Then you actually read the fucking story,

and all it says is the Texans may leave NRG and build a stadium in a different county, maybe. There was nothing in the story about, hey, they might leave and go to St. Louis. But this dipshit, this media guy, doesn't even take the time to read the two-minute-long story that says nothing about the team relocating to another city. All he sees is, oh, shit, the Texans are going to move. Let me retweet this because, oh, boy, I'm enraged over it, and I'll get some engagement on it.

Read the fucking story. Is that too much to ask read the story before you retweet shit my god it was it was the ultimate and clickbaity bullshit from newsweek quote unquote which was and again i say quote unquote whatever that means but like newsweek and newsweek says texans may relocate yes i guess in a technical sense they mean they may relocate. Yes, I guess in a technical sense, they may relocate. So it's like if you live in Houston, but then, you know, you move to Fort Bend County. That's technically a relocation, but you still fucking live in Houston. Not technically, but you live in the metro area. Like the way these people commented on this, because none of them took the time to read

the story because people just see these stories and want to be outraged and worried and fearsome. All you got to do is read the story and nowhere in the story does it say the Texans are going to leave town. And nowhere in the story does it even really say that the Texans are truly threatening anything. It's just kind of conjecture at this point. It's hysterical watching people react to this shit. But it's one thing when some slapdick dude on the internet that, you know, whatever, might have a blog, may not, may have nothing. Just some guy that's like Astrosfan69 or Astrosbabe84. And they react to shit because you expect the average person to not take the time to read because the average person's a fucking moron.

If we're being honest, the average person is a dipshit. But like, if there's someone who claims to be a media person and claims to be an Astros writer and is a graduate of TCU and has written for Politico and USA Today and has 85,000 followers and puts media personality in their bio, then why wouldn't you take the time to read the fucking story? You should be banished. If you don't take the time to read the fucking story, be gone. If you have any credentials, they should be revoked because all you're doing is spreading false shit. And it's like, it doesn't even bother me that you're spreading false shit because people are stupid. But the fact, like, I'm bothered by the fact that you were either too lazy to read the story

or you felt like just farming some engagement a little bit and be like, hey, I'm going to retweet this and say, boy, it was awful when we lost the Oilers. Can you imagine losing the Texans? No one has ever said anything about losing the Texans. The Texans are not leaving Houston. Where are they going to go? St. Louis? No.

Portland? No. They ain't losing the team. San Antonio? No. Oh, but I'm just going to retweet this. They ain't losing the team. San Antonio, no. Oh, but I'm just going to retweet this. I am so enraged. I'm not even going to bother reading the story. So there's multiple errors in this.

One is you've got the clickbaity headline from Newsweek. That's why you can't trust any of these outlets anymore. They're all bullshit. But like you look at that and you go, okay, Newsweek texans relocation so i can see where you'd see newsweek and go well they seem reputable but click the fucking story and read it comprehend it it ain't hard but these people can't do that people can't read or comprehend anything people just want to be outraged all the time people don't care about context they just want to be outraged all the time. People don't care about context. They just want to be outraged. Anyway, like the fact that some guy who's allegedly in the media retweets that and

didn't even read the story, fucking absurd. Anyway, more to come.