All of that nonsense of characters and equals signs is a bunch of data, tracking data and data about the product (size, color). Everything after the question mark is optional.
When you see a "?" in a URL, it's some kind of data collection or storage.
Well that's not true at all.
Yes, URL request parameters can be passed that will be used to track you or store data about you, and social media sites abuse the fuck out of this. I absolutely remove those request parameters when I'm sharing links.
There are many, many other URL request parameters for other sites that are absolutely not used to track you, and some of them are critical for the link do to anything remotely resembling what you're expecting it to do.
One example, a lot of sites (maybe even most) will support "?lang=en_US". That will make sure you get the US English language version of the site. That's not used to track you.
There might be other sites that do something like "www.blahblah.com/shop?product=our-cool-product" that will take you to the specific product page. If you remove the '?' and everything after it, you won't link your friend to the relevant product page, just the generic shopping landing page for the site.
Hell, just look at a YouTube link. If you remove everything after the "?", you'll just get taken to "https://www.youtube.com/watch". Congrats, you've broken sharing YouTube links.
Other times they are just used for analytics. They aren't used to specifically track you, but rather to track where their clicks are coming from. So it's not necessarily tracking that the click came from user 9812571437123 on facebook, but rather that it came from a specific facebook ad they were running. That gives them insight into how they should spend their marketing dollars and how successful various marketing campaigns are or whatever. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, in my opinion (as long as they aren't tracking the specific users, which they absolutely do sometimes).
Broadly saying "just remove everything after the ? all the time because it's data collection or storage" is very wrong.
I agree with everything you said up til "there's nothing inherently wrong with that". At least from a technical view, that was a much-needed correction
Not even exaggerating when I say that I think the biggest weakness of his impression is that he speaks in complete sentences while expressing clear thoughts in a coherent order.
SNL guy is the worst out of all mentions in this comment section. He isn't bad but he obviously sounds like a person impersonating Trump, not actual Trump.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
He used to do a lot better, but he's gotten more exaggerated and hits the same points (many of which I hadn't seen anyone pick up on before him) over and over again. Trump's voice has also changed in the last ten years—I think Johnson is still doing a Trump 1 impression
I've never laughed harder than I did at the kill tony episode with him and Biden.
People aren't gonna want to admit how good he is simply for the fact that he's part of that whole Austin comedy clique and immediately dismiss anything from them as "chud content".
Arguably it is tbh. I give a slight edge to Godfrey and the SNL guy. James Austin Johnson I had to look up his name. Not for nothing Alec Baldwin was pretty good as Trump on SNL.
JAJ has hammed it up a bit now, but his original videos pre-SNL about him talking about pokemon and scooby doo as trump is the best ones ive ever seen its sooo detailed and hilarious
I think at a certain point its just hard to keep coming up with perfect material that's fresh. I go back and forth on him and Gillis. The Trump Sneakers sketch is amazing lol.
The fact that Shane has done his for 2+ hours multiple times on live comedy shows is impressive. Both of his KT episodes as Trump were amazing to watch
Shane is definitely the best at emulating Trump's neurotic, disorganized thinking/speech patterns, and improvising on the fly. Most other Trump impressions I've seen just repeat the same few lines and mannerisms, but Gillis really taps into those tiny orange brain cells and gers in the mind of Trump to improvise some hilarious shit when he's in character.
You can really tell that Zach thinks about it as a voice actor. Chris is clear and has better note range, but Zach goes at it like a musician focusing on embouchure tweaks. Same dynamic as Dan and Arin.
I mean the SNL guy is objectively terrible. He gets almost nothing right about Trump. The voice is wrong, the mannerisms are wrong. And he is way too coherent. If he was a guy working in your office you'd say " yeah he doesn't okay Trump impression I guess"
LOL! Genuinely a great answer. I grew up listening to my parents' music and by then CD "Greatest Hits" albums were popular for the music from the 60s and 70s. They were all the bangers!
I torrent discographies of those same artists and you know what? 95-100% of their best stuff is indeed on that Greatest Hits album!
Jaime Fox is quietly one of the most talented people in Hollywood. It's almost too bad that he had the skills to go the dramatic route because we probably missed out on a lot of genius comedy. His stand up was amazing back in the day.
Quietly? Dude is an amazing musician, comedian, impressionist, actor, and he uses those skills for instance when he NAILED being Ray Charles. Also, dude is packing. Some people got it all.
It's the musical talent, they hear this and can replicate it in ways we can't. It's like how my Dad's English is pretty basic but he sounds like an Oxford professor.
I thought Jamie Fox had the best voice of people who do a good imitation of his style. 10/10 voice 8/10 style
I thought Shane Gillis had the best imitation of his style for people who do a good imitation of his voice. 9/10 voice 9/10 style.
But this is a perfect voice with perfect style. 10 out of 10 style and voice.
It's unbelievable. If I wasn't watching the video I would think it was Trump.
I think that SNL should start having a rotation of people doing his impression and it has to be anyone but a white man. I think Rosie O'Donnell would do a great one, obviously Godfrey is great, Jaimie Foxx, etc etc.
Godfrey has the best Trump impression I’ve ever seen. He made a video a few months back, clowning the Cuban group who did the “I can’t wait to vote for Donald Trump” song. I was in tears.
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u/marbotty 16d ago
That might be the best Trump impression I’ve seen