Shingy, an Asian man with long hair teased and moussed into a mane, wearing translucent-framed glasses and sporting a mild goatee, appearing on “Tech Talk” on TV. The Chyron reads: “Digital Prophet”: New trend will be defriending and unfollowing.

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   Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 14:07:57 JST Dave Rahardja

   Hey kids, did you know that in 2011 there was this dude who went by the name “Shingy”, who was VP of Marketing at AOL, who somehow morphed his persona to become the company’s “Digital Prophet”. His job was apparently to be weird and outrageous? Spout gibberish and look like he’s high on stimulants? Or something?

   Anyway, AOL was bought out by Verizon and merged with other dying companies to become Oath and they paid Shingy money til 2019.

   A conversation sparked this weird memory in my brain and now you too will remember a piece of Weird Tech history.

   #shingy #aol #wat