The Winklevii Whinge-athon Continues

Members of the Lucky Sperm Club Hold a 6 Year Long Pity Party

Will it ever stop? The whining that is. It's getting old.

I have to admit that it's been a rough time for the poor Brothers Winklevoss (or "Winklevii" as they are known) since last summer. First, The Social Network was a smash hit (and a probable Oscar best picture winner) that offers a positive portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg as a driven genius--albeit one suffering from poor social skills like any C.Sci. major. Then Time magazine chickens out at the last moment in December, and instead of making the voters' choice, Julian Assange, its Man of the Year, picks Zuckerberg. Finally Mark Z appears on SNL a week ago when Jesse Eisenberg was hosting and looks good yet again. Mark is on a roll.

Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins can do nothing but bitch and moan in stereo about how Mark stole their idea. Come on guys, grow the fuck up. You were born with the proverbial silver gold spoons in your mouths and have had every advantage in life since the moment of birth. There are something like 6.8 billion people on the planet. You were born among the luckiest 100,000.You're members of the Lucky Sperm Club. Move on with your lives. Do something on your own accounts. The only times we ever hear about you since 2003 are when you're whining about how Zuckerberg out-competed you.

Here's some free advice: use your inherited wealth, your Harvard pedigrees, Ivy League connections, and the $65 million you have already squeezed out of Mark, to actually do something with your lives instead of ending up as nothing more than footnotes in the various Mark Zuckerberg biographies that will be coming out for many years.You guys are rapidly becoming a comedy act ... an unintentional and painfully unfunny comedy act.

And ditch the man-purses, guys. What were you thinking?

If you want to see what I'm talking about, watch these guys embarrass themselves yet again: 

Comments

[Anon]

I hear a book is in the works about them. Working title: The Richie Riches Who Couldn't Catch a Break

[Caprinardo Delirio]

These boys are rapidly becoming as popular as Lyndsey Lohan and that repellent little heroin addict Nicole Ritchie(?). We need to tie them all up in a sack and toss it overboard out at sea.

[Tyler]

Mark was developing high scale web apps before he even went to Harvard. Which means, someone with those kinds of skills and ability to formulate his own ideas, continuously has new ideas. Those three moron's could not put together an original thought if you paid them 65 milion. Neither ConnectU or Facebook were the first social application ideas, and google was not the first search idea. Mark had the misfortune to cross paths with these knuckleheads, whose ambitions are to live off of Mark's hard work. Ideas are sometimes new, but definitely not unique to a single individual or a group, and really great ideas that make technology useful are ideas on how to make things better! And its a movie, not a documentary you retards, and movies are made for entertainment, even if it was a documentary, unless it was done by Oliver Stone I would be skeptical. All this legal maneuvering on behalf of the The Winklevoss twins and Darendra shows they have no character, no drive to create, no self-respect in the face of time and how to spend it with dignity, because they have none. Peace and Progress! thanks for the article!

[Gil Swanson]

That video was painful to watch. Wasted lives. These guys are doing nothing.

[Kate Lecky]

Is the video an Onion parody?

[Len]

Oh the irony in the advice offered up in that last minute. They should watch it over and over until it sinks in.

[Brandon Mendelson]

As much as I love a good rich boy thumping, I think it's worth pointing out that none of us were there at Harvard when this stuff went down.

All of this is hearsay and speculation. You don't know what Zuckerberg was or wasn't thinking. I doubt he ripped them off, but if you look at the history of this thing objectively, you can see how it would look shady that he was working on a competing service while working on their service (and if you read The Facebook Effect, thinking about making a competing service before even joining them.)

So, as easy as it is to rip on these guys, it's time everyone, that includes us bloggers, to shut up and move on.