"This is a real quote, because nobody would ever pretend to be a famous person just to lie on the Internet." - Margot Robbie, Internet forum moderator and occasional actress
"Tipping the landlord" Some landlord/employer posted on Twitter how none of their employees/tenants are grateful for the nice things the capitalist provides them with. They said that they'd like to get tipped occasionally. It might have been a shitpost, but it blew up. Now, 'tipping the landlord' is an internet gag line. No one in real life tips their land lord.
It's as real as Kids requesting litter boxes in school because they identify as a furry, it's just meme BS that a specific political group has latched on to and bitch about. It's definitely not real.
That was a more subtle disinformation deflection by conservatives. Schools did need litter boxes for mandated mass shooting lockdown preparations.
Instead of the horror of children needing to use litter boxes because American conservatives cant regulate their firearms, it was, "Haha, liberals want litter boxes for furries."
A while back, there was this thing where some very out of touch landlords were whining about having to actually do things for their tenants and that tenants should tip them for this. Naturally, they were rightfully shamed and ridiculed for it and it never caught on, but the way I first heard about it was seeing another landlord agreeing with the original post.
It (used?) to be expected to tip your maintenance man at the end of the year in big apartment buildings (there's even a friends episode about it). Some scummy landlords try to claim that they are the maintenance man and more and so deserve a tip. I have personally had landlords ask for it,
The air conditioner went out a couple days before a huge heatwave came through our area and it was >40°C for about 4 days in a row. My wife and I notified her of the problem as soon as we knew. Two days into the heatwave, she sends a message basically saying, "The repairman is in a volleyball tournament, sorry that the unit can't be fixed today." When asked if she could call literally anyone else, we got radio silence. It got up to 32°C inside the house. We cracked and bought a window unit for the bedroom on the third day. It was the only way we were getting any sleep. About 3 days later, someone comes by to fix the unit. It was still about 35°C outside by then.
A few months later, an insect infestation (which we were advised by a professional could not have been foreseen) killed the yard. She was pissed at us for letting the yard be killed anyway. Again, she heard the guy say that there was no way to know that would happen. We just got unlucky. So she took the time to bitch at us about the untrimmed trees, which we were not contractually obligated to trim. Always found something new to gripe about.
As a parting "Fuck you," when we left the house, we submitted a request with the power company to turn off the power. As the landlord, it was her responsibility to make sure new service was started in her name the second after our contract ended. We paid $20 to have the service disconnected. Because she did not notify the power company that she would be taking over the power bills beginning the day following the end of our contract, she had to pay about $250 so someone could come out and connect new service following a disconnect. The house didn't have any electricity for a few days. She had the audacity to text us and say, "You didn't have to turn the electricity off." Yeah? Well we had no obligation to pay for any power after our lease ended. That's your fault. God, it felt so good to be petty.
She's our neighbor now. Not a small town, just a small world. She probably doesn't remember us, but I hope her grandkids don't call her. She was an asshole to us. Something about axes and trees. Fuck her. Fuck landlords.