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The TechCrunch write-up almost exclusively focuses on the "Nimble America" thing. I'm sure that didn't help his standing at Facebook, but he's been doing other things besides that failed Reddit campaign. Some more context in the Ars Technica writeup (I hadn't remembered how much he was on the hook for the Zenimax charges):

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/oculus-co-founder-pal...

> Luckey did appear briefly at a January trial in which id Software owner Zenimax Media accused Oculus of misappropriating trade secrets. While Oculus was cleared of the worst of those charges, the company was found liable for $300 million for various related charges. Luckey himself was personally found liable for $50 million in damages.

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What was Nimble America anyway, and why the outrage?

The Daily Beast article isn't much help, talking about Pepe the Frog and "shitposting", with the banner picture, presumably the most egregious example they could publish, being Hillary's face with the caption "Too Big to Jail". Partisan, sure, but well within the realm of normal politics these days.

Some political campaigning group that intended to take online memes and run them as actual political billboards. The outrage was because it was pro-Trump.

There was also outrage within /r/The_Donald as well, because it sounded like a scam and people suspected one of the mods of trying to do a money grab.

> The outrage was because it was pro-Trump.

Or because someone managed to find a way to make American political dialogue even dumber.

As far as I understood it, it was a non-profit that Luckey funded to help promote Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It was seemingly going to do so through memes, though it never recognizably progressed beyond its initial promotion. It was derided from both sides; it was first posted for a sort of crowdfunding campaign to /r/The_Donald where it was lambasted as "astroturfing" and a corporate attempt to profit off of their community. The VR and tech community at large (which tends to lean left and anti-Trump) didn't think much of it until it was revealed that Luckey was providing the funding for it, at which point a great deal of his already waning community support dropped out from under him.

The internet outrage professionals need there daily quota of clicks and its a slow news day.

Shitposting in real life.

Essentially taking comments you might find on /r/The_Donald and posting them on real life billboards.

What is a shitpost?

I think I can get the idea. But could you provide an example from him?

It's just a term referring to a shitty post.

More "worthless" than "shitty".

Some people call posting humorous nonsense on Facebook or Twitter as "shitposting" as well. Doesn't add anything, but can be amusing in small doses.

A shitpost is hard to classify, but it is usually an off-topic post intended to derail, hijack, circlejerk, or otherwise spam a conversation.

I don't have any examples of Palmer shitposting, because his scheme never really got off the ground. A generic example of a shitpost would be if say, someone posted in this thread this image: http://i.imgur.com/QoZHVLs.jpg and demanded that we only post spiderman memes, instead of talking about the intended topic.

All of the examples you've been given are hilariously wrong. 'Shitposting' is a play on the idea that people with non-pc views are 'shitlords.' It grew out of groups like "Shit Reddit Says" and "Shit 4chan Says" that meant to police language on those sites. tl;dr A "shitpost" is a post that's not politically correct.

Shitposting is just making terrible posts. That could be posting lame stuff, making the same sort of post that is always made on those sites, or just being a nuisance spamming.

Just like the way pepe the frog changed. The connotations around shitposting changed.

Noooo. The term shitposting significantly predates SRS. Please see the Know Your Meme entry on it for more info.

No. Shitposting is making terrible posts. Low quality, dumb low effort, etc...

As you can see from your replies, it has more than one definition depending on where on the internet you are.

Let's remember that this is a 24 year old guy worth half a billion dollars. Young and immature leads to expected behavior. Young, immature AND rich leads to this.

I know people expect more from their corporate leaders, but this shouldn't really be surprising to anyone given the context

Between those two and the fact that he is in possession of FU money, it feels pretty inevitable.

I'm guessing the fact that Oculus is a distant third in VR market share (without even considering headsets such as Cardboard and Gear VR, which would put it even further behind) didn't help.

Oculus is a company, not a product. The Gear VR is a product made by Oculus in collaboration with Samsung.

You're probably thinking of the Oculus Rift, which is another product made by Oculus (or Facebook, if you prefer, now that they've bought Oculus, the company).

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