RetroBayArea

@MuseumCommodore @nikitabier @dcurtis Solid feedback. 💪

@nikitabier This platform rocks, I get 20x more views on X than I do on Youtube, so 80% of my effort goes here of course. The Retrogaming /Commodore 64 community here is very engaged and I love it. Alot of my posts get about 1,000 impressions and ocassionally they explode to 8,000-50,000 impressions which blows me away. If you want some feedback: (1) I still write articles on X but they still perform a lot worst than the similar short form posts. They all average about 1,000 impressions, with the latest one actually made 3,300 impressions which counteracts what I am trying to say. Alot of effort goes into writing the informative articles but they just dont get pushed by the algo/grok. Which is dissappointing. (Grok's response just now about this is below) (2) Threads: The initial post may get 1,000 views, the next in the thread 200-300, the next post in the thread 100 impressions. They don't seem to work - I appreciate my threads might suck and this may be the issue, but I have never had a single thread work. I will love the platform and it was the best move coming here, but when I see similar accounts regularly getting 50,000-300,000 views with similar written content it is a little demoralising. Just honest feedback.

It all boils down to: 1. Providing the best tools to create content 2. Incentivizing the highest quality content 3. Ranking that content so it finds its audience Nothing else matters.

Hope you’re paying attention @historyinmemes and @25YearsAgoLive. These two accounts have been straight-up stealing full videos from me and so many other accounts like mine for too long now. What’s worse, is that for a lot of the edits I post, the source footage is out there for literally anyone to use and create their own edits from. Me and other smaller accounts put in the actual work sourcing + editing these videos into something worth watching while you two just steal the finished edits wholesale and slap them on your pages. Lazy theft, especially you @25YearsAgoLive. You’re a scumbag, one of the absolute worst individuals I’ve ever come across on this platform. Glad X is finally starting to take some action and will eventually be reallocating impressions to the creators who actually create.

Over the past month, we have identified a number of large accounts that have been programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts to game the revenue share program and circumvent crediting the original author. We are now identifying these posts and allocating the impressions entirely to the creator. If you have insightful commentary about a post, we recommend using the Share Video or Quote feature to ensure your posts are properly attributed.

@darren_stallcup @nikitabier @stephsvox @ianmiles I’m sick of all these accounts. It happens with a lot of my original edits as well.

@nikitabier @stephsvox I have uploaded 10,000+ videos of San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles street conditions. The big accounts all steal my videos. Even the mainstream news media uses my videos. @ianmiles the only person that actually credits my original content. The rest are goddamn thieves.

@spencerpratt @Google They also do this quite often in San Francisco with street view in order to hide the tents and homeless encampments hoping people don't notice.

dear @Google Wtf is this

@catturd2 I've seen Google do this quite often in San Francisco but with street view in order to hide the tents and homeless encampments hoping people don't notice.

What a joke.

@filmzilla @Adamcopes Yeah, I messed up on that.

@RetroBayArea @Adamcopes Errrrr the painted ladies are on Steiner Street.

Today would’ve been Bob Saget’s 70th birthday. Danny Tanner lived at 1709 Broderick Street in the Painted Ladies. Happy birthday, Bob. 🏠​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 📸: 49erscast Facebook page

Sammy Davis Jr. & Eartha Kitt in San Francisco, 1953. He passed away 36 years ago today, on May 16, 1990. Sammy Davis Jr. had a notable connection to San Francisco, even if it wasn't as central to his story as cities like Las Vegas or New York. He performed here during the height of his career appearing at iconic venues like the Fairmont Hotel's Venetian Room. San Francisco's social climate also made it one of the places where he felt more welcomed especially compared to many other parts of the country. This photo was taken on the roof of the Fairmont Hotel. 📸: Jess Rand

@ComedyConley Thanks for the rec. 💪

@verummultum Hot mess I don’t know how long it’ll be before that city comes back. It’s depressing. Check out @RetroBayArea

Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent to China.

The San Francisco smoking ban. San Francisco, 1998. California banned smoking in bars and restaurants on January 1, 1998. I was working in a restaurant at the time. Management still let the regulars smoke after closing until things cooled down. Twenty-eight years later, Supervisor Myrna Melgar introduced a bill to extend the ban to open-air patios and parklets at bars. Health advocates say it will protect workers and patrons from secondhand smoke. Bar owners at places like O'Reilly's Pub, Zeitgeist, and El Rio say it will hurt their business. The question being raised is why cigarettes on a patio are the priority when fentanyl overdoses in the city topped 700 last year and open drug use is still a common sight around downtown. Cannabis retailers are exempt from the bill. source footage 🎥: KGO-TV

@IamKeishaKeisha @ManLook75 On issues such as this, people will usually always fall into one of the four groups here. When reading this piece, just swap SF & Oakland and do the same with SF Centre and Gap. retrobayarea.com/post/san-franc…

Do you live Oakland? If so where do you shop? Because regardless is retail is suffering nationwide, when you travel outside of oakland to other cities, counties, or out of state, retail exist. Again, this the tone deaf response that certain people always like to communicate when it comes down to Oakland. I am oakland native. There is literally not much in Oakland.

Today I walked into the GAP on Lakeshore Ave in Oakland and learned it’s closing for good in July. This store has been part of Oakland since 1987. Another longtime retailer leaving isn’t just “business as usual” it’s a warning sign. Oakland already barely has major retail left, and upscale shopping in this city is almost nonexistent. Most Oakland residents already leave the city just to shop. Every time another established store closes, it hurts jobs, foot traffic, neighborhood stability, and the city’s image. Yet Oakland’s elected officials still don’t seem to understand the seriousness of what’s happening to our commercial corridors. I like a city that has upscale shopping, lots retail options etc How many more stores need to close before they finally pay attention? #Oakland #GAP #Lakeshore #Retail #OaklandCA

Born in Monticello, Missouri, Hughes was average size at birth but began gaining lots of weight after contracting whooping cough at five months old. His family later moved to Fishhook, Illinois, where he spent much of his life. Hughes earned a living by selling photos of himself and making guest appearances at carnivals and fairs. At 27, he joined a traveling roadshow and was invited to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show but those plans never materialized. As his health declined, walking became increasingly difficult, requiring family members to assist him and carry a custom steel-reinforced chair for him to rest in when needed. While traveling in Indiana, Hughes developed measles. Due to his size, he couldn’t be transported to a hospital and was treated in his trailer. He passed away on July 10, 1958, at the age of 32. He was buried in Benville, IL at the Benville Cemetery with about 2000 people attending his funeral June 4, 1926 – July 10, 1958

The fat guy at the Guinness Museum of World Records in San Francisco, 1980s. Robert Earl Hughes was known for being the heaviest recorded person during his lifetime, weighing 1071 pounds. By the time he was 10 years old, he already weighed 375 pounds.

Top Gun Opening Day, March 20, 1993. 📸: California’s Great America

@DrPostALotHere Haha. 💪💪

@RetroBayArea Yessss!!!!!

I was up at 402 Campbell watching this happen. Salute to the families at #GenevaTowers I started out as a youth on Lower (spelling) street and Peabody. #SanFrancisco 1973

@DrPostALotHere I finally made it to X.

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@DrPostALotHere 💪💪

@hubermanlab His name was Mud, and somehow, through pure logic, he decided he was going to eat dirt. The 2026 equivalent would be drinking liquid oxygen out of a mason jar.

North Bay Area biohacking circa 1970: eating dirt. But not just any dirt. Mendocino dirt… #retrobayarea The real question is: what is the 2026 equivalent of this? All answers welcome.

I probably looked at this photo for three minutes straight when I first discovered it.

The corner of 21st and Church Street. San Francisco, 1952. An unpainted frame house with mom or grandma & four kids out front. Lots of cool details to look at in this one pic. My favorite: the colorful little window garden on the second floor. 📸: Charles Cushman