Why Use Linktree When You Can Learn a Markup Language and Never Shut Up About It?
by Picadora Bransen
A recent post has been circulating social media warning that the popular self-promotion site Linktr.ee plans to start automatically feeding everyone's images and texts into an LLM. Literally every element of that statement is false and the announcement image in the post is fake, but that hasn't stopped legions of creators from deleting their accounts and taking to social media to complain.
"I just spent fifty bucks ordering business cards with my Linktree on them! Now that I've deleted it I have to buy new ones." complained local cartoonist Henkem Joonson, "Money's tight right now, I really don't appreciate Linktree making me spend money for no reason other than their own stupidity."
Across sites like Bluesky and Twitter, tech-savvy users are taking advantage of the chaos to encourage users to make their own website.
"I don't understand why people use Linktree." sighed computer science professor Gail Ham. "It only takes five minutes to make a list of links in HTML, and HTML is incredibly easy to learn. It's not even a programming language, you can learn the basics in a single semester!"
"Compared to the cost other websites I host, a page of links is a drop in the bucket." agreed veteran system administrator Hank Hungus, "An annual subscription fee for both the domain and hosting is only a couple hundred bucks a year. Who doesn't just have a couple hundred bucks sitting around?"
"The best part of hosting my own links isn't the security, it's getting to talk about the fact that I host my own links." agreed gaming YouTuber BennyBenzaBonanza. "When I saw how arrogant the people telling me to make my own website were, I knew I just had to cop some of that steez for myself. I see why they tell people that all the time, it makes you look smart and you get to feel like you're helping!"
Linktree did not respond to questions, but did forward a press release about a seperate extant AI partnership that went into effect without notice or complaint three months ago.