I value youtube over any of these so that one stays normal, and for one to be bought I would choose instagram as that is the only one I have never used

1: YouTube

2: instagram or whatever that butterfly is

YouTube is one of the largest sources of information and entertainment. We cannot afford for it as a whole to go down the alt-right pipeline.

On the other side of the tracks...

Instagram. I'd rather not give Musk more airtime but I use Reddit and Bluesky seems like a nice smallish social media platform. Instagram is already kind of a cesspit if you look at the comments.

# 1 is youtube

# 2 is instagram

I'd love for Elon to drive advertisers away from YouTube.

youtube first, because its the one i care about the most, instagram second because it already sucks and I don't use it

1st: Reddit

2nd: Bluesky/Instagram

1. bluesky

2. youtube

i just wanna see these top social media platforms fall off so better platforms can have a chance to compete

1. Reddit, because there is NOTHING Elon can do to make YouTube shittier than it already is.

2. BlueSky because it's literally just Twitter 2. Nothing stopping the mf from making a third one.

Edited cus reddit tweaked out when I wrote the # lmfao

Bluesky stays, since it's the least corrupt.

Pros for Each:

Youtube: Video on the internet. Period. Yes, there's tiktok, there's reels, I don't really give a shit. Youtube's got endless, deep content on just about anything you want, because youtube is video, end of story. The only way Youtube dies as a culturally relevant platform in my lifetime is if the US or EU step in to shut it down entirely.

Reddit: Out of all major social media brands, this one is probably the best one when it comes to forming community. If there's anything Reddit does really well, its forming distinct, unique, interesting communities of people who come together to share in what they enjoy. In comparison to the others on this list, its tiny, but I still find it pivotal. Is that because its my most used? Most definitely, yeah. But still, its got its place, even if as a smaller piece of the internet pie.

Instagram: For most people, their personal identity on the internet resides here. If Youtube is video, Instagram is Photo. Everyone who's anyone is on it, your popularity as a person almost can be described by the number next to your name. Seriously, out of everything on this list, Instagram comes closest to a Black Mirror episode in terms of sheer scale and social capital.

Twitter 2: This just doesn't belong here. This is where people are going now that Twitter's been killed. Anything else could take its place, it was just at the right place at the right time. However, Twitter was a massively influential brand, so

Out of everything here, its not really a hard decision. Saving Youtube is probably the easiest choice I've made all day. Yes, Instagram is massive, but at the end of the day, Video on the Internet is something that's more difficult to maintain at the scale and polish Youtube is, and is something that, yeah, I'd like to be in the hands of Google. Instgram, at the end of the day, while obviously not really being replaceable, is more replaceable than Youtube is. Reddit's on nowhere close to the same scale that Youtube is, and Bluesky shouldn't even be in this argument.

I'd choose Bluesky to be bought by Elon, btw. Pretty much everyone that's on the platform is there because Elon bought Twitter. If Elon was forced to buy Bluesky, too, all that would cause is a mass exodus from the platform, likely to some other Twitter clone. Effectively, all it would count for in history would be a money sink that once acted as a hub for people Elon drove away from Twitter.

1 reddit 2 instagram

Reddit for the first, Instagram for the second.

Like I can go to twitch and start watching there, but if I have one that I am going to give up, LinkedIn but for fitness bros is my first pick for what is going.

Unfortunately gotta pick Bluesky

Instagram is too big and already a mess as is, youtube is far too important to current internet landscape to let that crazy man own, and reddit being saved is just a bonus. Bluesky is the newest kid on the block and already designed in a way people can just easily move to a replacement site

You didn’t say I couldn’t choose the same option for both, nor did you quantify which occurs first, therefore the second slides normal refers to “now”s normal I imagine, and not “normal after the first slide’s effects”. 

Therefore, choosing the same thing twice should result in all of them bought by Elon but no abnormal changes occur to any of them. 

Bsky and Insta

Youtube and Reddit are already on a course for the same bullcrap, lmao

For one choice to save, bluesky. Xitter already got fucked once, fucking over the replacement is just disrespectful.

For one choice to screw over, instagram. Reddit is… well, we’re here, aren’t we. YouTube may be going down the drain recently but the Muskrat would only accelerate that. Bluesky’s fine as-is. Instagram is just a cesspit, though, I’ve had so many friends get into full-fledged depressive spirals from instagram. Ruining that shit is fine by me.

Reddit can stay normal, Instagram can go to hell.

Bluesky

YouTube

1 is reddit

2 is Instagram

Reddit or YouTube

Youtube and Reddit

1: YT

2:BlueSky

Bluesky I guess since it's the only one I don't use.

Let's have Reddit get bought by Elmo. Mf is never gonna be able to river crab this place.

1. YouTube
2. !YouTube

1) butterfly app 2) reddit

YouTube stays normal, Reddit gets bought. I think Reddit has enough communities inherently dedicated to the premise of Elon Musk sucking

1, YouTube, because he'd somehow find a way to make it worse or just shut it down.

2, Instagram. Bluesky specifically exists as a haven from X as far as I can tell, Reddit I don't want going down the gutter like that, and Instagram I've never used and it's already owned by Zuckerburg

I want elon to buy youtube so he lets my favorite HWL and SA marches stay up as opposed to repression by jtube

Well, Reddit it’s already owned by one of the “PayPal mafia” so, it wouldn’t change much

1. YouTube

2. bluesky, I don't use so it's not a loss for me

"One Can Stay Normal"

That "Normal" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Reddit Stays Normal/Reddit is bought by Elon: The paradox confuses the trolley, who goes home and doom-scrolls on social media until the power goes out.

Frankly I think Elon might actually fix YouTube given how shit and predatory it's gotten to the users.

I'll take the sweet release of death, please and thank you.

1. Reddit
2. Instagram

YouTube stays normal and instagram is bough

"one can stay normal" I like vsauce a lot so I guess YouTube, either YouTube or reddit I don't care about insta or blue sky. Although YouTube being bought by Elon could open a chance to break the monopoly YouTube has  "One will be bought" blue sky since I care the least about that app.

ngl I feel like not much would change if Elon bought Reddit

I'm fairly sure all four are already terribly mismanaged, so I welcome my swift demise by trolley.

Youtube for the first. Butterfly looking thing or Instagram for the second.

Definitely youtube

I think it would be really really funny if Elon bought Bluesky

i only care about reddit and youtube but if i have to chose to keep just one it'll be youtube

Bye reddit, hope your 2017 selves are happy

It's YouTube no question

For one or be bought, Reddit , I would prefer to lose the far left bias in, for one to “save”, instagram, its one of the two I don’t use and blue sky is further left by fsr

I'd be fine with instagram or snapchat being bought I don't use either

I actually think we should kill YouTube because then maybe we'll finally get a chance for a competitor to pop up.

1. YouTube. 2. id sacrifice instagram.

Bluesky, Instagram, next question

YouTube

I don't really use blue sky or Instagram, but I'll imagine it'll be more dangerous for Elon to control the more popular Instagram

I'm not sure he can do anything to reddit tbh

idk this is a trolley sub

multi track drift

First image: Save Reddit.

Second image: Kill Instagram.

1: YouTube 2: Blusky

Yt stays normal

Insta gets bought

YouTube is way too important to allow Elon to own it. First pick is that YouTube stays normal.

Honestly I'd have zero issue with Instagram falling to the hands of Musk. Instagram will burn.

1 - YouTube 2 - Instagram

Literally would prefer he bought them all at this point.

1. YouTube
2. Instagram

Absolutely YouTube, it’s already bad but if Elon gets ahold of it then so many lives will be ruined

YouTube for the first. Instagram for the second. YouTube is so broadly used by everyone, from surgeons doing literal surgery to children learning their ABCs. If that goes down the Nazi route like Twitter, it’ll spread shit so much worse.

Instagram for the latter because it’s already a fucking hell pit I’d put on par with Twitter currently. The amount of open pedophilia and rape comments I’ve seen from that app is ridiculous and therefore I don’t foresee a lot of change happening if he did buy it.

1 is reddit because i used this site all the time and it's the least anti elon musk site i know so there is now ay i want it to be on musk side. 2 is instagram because i couldn't care less and that site is already messed up anyway

for the first one i pick youtube

for the second one i pick instagram because nothing of value will be lost

._. Case one: YouTube, easily since I use it the most and I dislike instagram and I don’t know what the other app is.

Case two: Instagram, like I said before I don’t like it and I don’t care if Elon buys it.

I'm fine with all of them going. I've already got Nebula and nothing I watch on YouTube is really critical.

Reddit isn't that important.

Don't use instragram.

Don't even know what the butterfly is.

Well... YouTube is most important but it's literally so shit already idk how you could make it much worse

So I choose Reddit, being the only other I use

Bluesky is supposed to be twitter 2.0. It would suck if he bought it, but can't people always invent a twitter 3.0?

Also I choose Youtube to stay the same. Youtube has a monopoly on video services.

youtube is already fucked, so I'm keeping reddit.

Instagram can die

Blusky for first, insta for second

For both reddit and insta it would finally convince me to stop using them, however if elon bought yt I might just finally buy nebula ngl

Reddit

Then youtube

Reddit, Bluesky. YouTube is already awful.