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- Strong
- Warm
- Fluid
- Open
- Awesome!
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Yeah, he can be kinda dry, though. I hear wet phones walk miles to shelter in his pocket. (To dry out.) (Cuz it’s like uncooked rice in there.) 
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Yeah it was a mass back then but the members on the forum were a lot more laid back , I Enjoyed that
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Perfect Chat GPT letter. Gooey letters like this are boarderline unprofessional. Where are you going?
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I guarantee that was not written by Chat GPT. And borderline unprofessional? Nope, that is why the community loves xer. Caring personality always shines through.
Xe has not disclosed xer next adventure.
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Sorry for the late response, these new thread notifications sometimes get lost with all the others.
We miss you already Gwendolyn! You have been an awesome community manager, leader, and person.
Good luck on your future adventures!
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I like it better when “Latest” would show all the new post for everything. 
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Next?
- Joining Michele Obama’s campaign staff
- Launching first Customer Service Satellite
- Starting startup to Humanize Upstart Tech (HUT)
- Breeding Pink Catillacs
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Speculation is rampant! (Rife?)
- Rampant
- Rife
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That’s nonsense and easily verifiable. Even though I already KNEW with no doubt that this was 100% written by Gwendolyn, I just ran it through 5 different AI detectors, including one that will analyze and rate each individual sentence. Every single one of them said it was 100% written by a human. Every single sentence. ChatGPT could never write something like this on it’s own from a simple prompt. It’s way too personalized and nuanced with things that are only applicable here.
If a person is looking for a company that follows convention or purely PC culture, Wyze is not where you’ll find what you’re looking for (cue the Obi Wan meme). It is what most of us LOVE about Wyze. Just go read their newsletters or marketing posts (they even recently had one that included a hint at a “yo mama” joke 
they’re not going for PC). Look at their early YouTube videos. Wyze likes to break from the crowd. They try to Disrupt the market by doing things differently from the others and doing things others weren’t: insanely low profit margins, optimizing the logistics, they made local AI become popular after they first implemented it, they made starlight lenses popular, they have traditionally not done many things conventional companies do, like pay for traditional advertising. They’ve relied on word of mouth, etc. They have inadvertently created a bunch of copy cats trying to become the new “Wyze Killers” with affordable smart cameras and smart home tech which has made life better for everyone, including all the people who don’t like or use Wyze. Competition is good for all of us. Regardless of how one may feel about TikTok, Wyze was one of the pioneers of a known-company becoming the most successful company on there and getting a ton of others to suddenly jump onboard to the Tiktok marketplace too. They’re not trying to be like “everybody else.” They like to joke around and have fun. If you’ve ever attended any of their live events, there is a ton of fun, light-hearted banter it’s half the reason I bother tuning in. If they were totally “professional” and PC drab, I wouldn’t bother. They don’t act like emotionless robots. It is what LOTS of us love about them. That is part of makes Wyze so great!
I have no problem with others having a different preference. Luckily there are thousands or millions of other companies more than happy to act like zombies and suck the life out of their employees and customers. I honestly just block all their newsletters and marketing materials because they’re so boring, dull, drab, same as every other company, and doesn’t even get a smile or laugh out of me. Wyze might be one of the only companies that I actively tell them they can send me everything (another being Windscribe VPN as an amazing company like this) because they often try to make their communication creative and funny and entertaining and nuanced.
Wyze holds as one of their highest core principles to “be friends with users” and treat us like friends, and this letter is living up to that. If this letter stayed emotionless and “professional” then it would actually not be living up to their core values. This letter is more like how I’d expect a “friend” to write to me, not some emotionless 95-percenter professional response that could’ve been regurgitated by ChatGPT because it says the same template that every other company says. That’s how everyone should’ve definitely known at a glance that this wasn’t an LLM AI response. That’s how ChatGPT works. it just regurgitates the average of what most people would likely say. It isn’t really creative, it is the definition and epitome of a sheeple response within the parameters given to it. Bleh (and this is coming from someone who loves LLM AI’s And uses multiple of them every single day since the day open AI opened to public beta testing). If Wyze starts copying every other company and stops living up to their core values of being friends with users and starts being overly obsessed with professionalism and corporate bureaucracy, then I’m out. They would lose half the stuff I love about them and makes me such a huge, supportive fan. I like out of the box thinking, disruption, breaking convention, treating me like a friend and half the other things they do differently from all the other bureaucratic drone corporations.
May they never change those core values.
We will miss you Gwendolyn! Thank you for giving a letter from your heart. You’ve done an awesome job over the last several years and built up a great community that I enjoy spending cracks of time in.
Hear hear!
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You will be missed! Best wishes in your future endeavors…
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Don’t be sad. 
You can probable still be friends with her. If she cares about you, she will probably PM and reach out to you. Perhaps meet her for coffee. My friends are all in person so I don’t get the sentiment… I just come here to check on firmware when my vacuum gets lost. 
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Do vacuums climb stairs yet?
I can’t even get ours to move without pushing it.
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I am (still friends with Gwendolyn, and still in contact). We still DM and have other communication connections, but I can still miss that we don’t “work together” as much when I rather enjoyed such frequent interactions related to things I enjoy as part of my daily routine across multiple platforms. For what it’s worth I did know Gwendolyn in person too, multiple days when I flew to Washington, also have had video calls with them and interacted almost every day since 2020. Not that meeting them in person should actually make a difference in whether they’re my friend.
You’re missing out. I have lots of both. One great thing about digital access is no longer limits your friendships by your geographical locations. Some of my favorite people in the world live in different states and countries, including loved family members. I would be devastated if we could only be “friends” or “family” when “in person” like the old tribal days and am glad I don’t limit myself to that. I get to hang out and play games with my brothers and their families/kids online. Outside of my family, my favorite person in the world is like a brother to me. We lived together in Haiti for a long time. I taught him English, he taught me Haitian Kreyol and French. We have been as close as brothers for decades despite being thousands of miles apart for most of that time. He eventually got kidnapped & held for ransom (kidnappers were trying to extort a US organization he worked for), but he escaped and they kept trying to recapture him so he sent his family to the US for their safety. Eventually, they moved to my state for a couple of years and are now several states away again. Just because we’re not in person does not mean we’re no longer friends. I don’t think friendship or intimacy require physical contact.
I’d be devastated if I could no longer have any contact with my extended family and long-time friends just because we aren’t neighbors anymore. That would be horrible. And if that is true, it logically stands to reason that relationships can indeed extend beyond my immediate local presence or I would not care if I no longer talked to my brothers unless it was in person. And since I do care, then it stands to reason the same may be applied to anyone who is also human but not in my immediate presence.
Being able to care about and have empathy for humans, even those not in our immediate presence is a huge green flag IMO. The opposite is related to the horrible effects of tribalism, trolls, online bullying, and a lot of psychopathy and antisocial activity we see every day from people who treat everyone else online as more of an object than a human. Immediate presence tribalism is instinctual, but robotic.
I sincerely wish more people would be open to friendship and humanizing people that aren’t strictly within their immediate presence/tribe. It’s a huge green flag that makes the world better literally for everyone. Those are my kind of people I like to seek out and care about for sure.
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As my fellow Navy shipmates would say Fair winds and following seas,
thank you much
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Nah. Sounds exhausting. I would suggest a good balance for you. See, Sound, Touch, Smell… wins every time over a computer screen or speaker. Talk with some of your elders as they will provide more personal insight into this for you. Gwen will probably ditch you as the chances of her keeping your shallow internet friendship going is lowwwww. Be prepared to deal with this mentally and physically depending on the devastation you suggest.
Dude, what? I’m a Millennial. We’re known for maintaining online friendships across decades. Don’t say such unkind things to my friends. It’s totally cool if you aren’t the type to do this kind of friendship because it isn’t for everyone. But this isn’t a shallow friendship and it’s one that continues to mean a great deal to me. Don’t use my name to attack folks.
Also, I wasn’t aiming for professional in my letter. If you found it borderline unprofessional and gooey, then I think I actually accomplished my goals of communicating that this community meant more to me than a simple paycheck. Thank you for your feedback.
@Mods , it feels as if this person isn’t engaging in good faith or kindness. Please review their contributions to this conversation.
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