The current UK government, which has had its third prime minister since 2019 and is being rocked by a combination of scandal and gross, malicious incompetence, is face an uphill battle to simply avoid total destruction at the next general election, let alone win. So what better time for one of its key services to start a Discord channel and engage with youth!
As The guard reportHowever, the UK Treasury’s decision was immediately met with a “barrage of abuse” despite launching as a read-only channel, meaning users could join and read things left by their admin but couldn’t type anything themselves.
If the people responsible for setting it up thought this would guarantee them some level of protection from a public one more election cycle of austerity from rolling guillotines, they were dead wrong: the broadcaster forgot about emoji- Reactions and stuff Soon every post on the channel looked like this:
Other popular emojis throughout the day included the clown, the middle finger and the flags of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Mysteriously, a few hours after launch (and being bullied into the sea and back) the welcome channel (which said “Hello!” to account names from Jeremy Corbyn to Jeffrey Epstein) and users disappeared saw her eggplant emoji disappearsuggesting that His Majesty’s Treasury was panicking and trying to practice a little emergency measure.
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However, her explanation for this was:
Due to the rapid growth of today’s channel, which has over 7,000 members joined, a technical issue has caused reactions to be halted. We’re working with Discord to turn reactions back on.
I’m happy to report that at the time of posting, the ability to add reactions has been restored. So if you want to leave feedback yourself, you can via the link here (although unfortunately the admin seems to have deleted one of the emoji letters needed to complete the word “cunt” from each post and left each one character after their preferred term for this government mess).