#190The Sad Unusability of Video Game Reviews
“It’s like a scale to measure which tastes better, a dream or gravity.”
Media shifts
Structural changes in media, platforms, and attention.
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How Refillables Filled Up Our Feeds
Perhaps the only way to get the kind of reach [celebrities] used to get appearing on a few late night talk shows
The New Brand Folklore
“Today, a brand is far less what it says about itself, and far more about what a wide ecosystem of third parties, both human and non-human, can find, trust, rank, recommend, and sell.”
The Culture Recession with Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick
It's like every person has to be a creator slash actor, whatever, just to get a normal job. And so that means everything is overwhelming.
#188What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
“In case you haven’t guessed it yet, it’s linked to prediction markets.”
On AI Search with Tom Critchlow
“For example, I’ve worked with a brand that used to rank number one for all of their commercial terms on Google — drove a ton of traffic and revenue for years. They’re cited very heavily in AI search now, but often cited as, “by the way, don’t buy from these people.”
i drink wine, i don't count my sleep score, i never use AI, i cancelled my amazon AND I AM HAPPIER THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Everyone jumping off the bridge to feel the wind in their hair.”
There's nothing to watch on YouTube anymore
“They want videos to feel like a friend with perfect media training casually FaceTiming them from a professional newsroom.”
Gen Z doesn't want to live in public anymore
“Only 5% said they wanted to be digital creators or influencers”
TASTESLOP
“The biggest thing people are missing about taste across the board is that it is relative, contextual, and social.”
Gen Z Cancels Streaming Subs for One Show, Don't Buy Full-Price Games
“Platform loyalty is effectively dead.”
The Year the Monoculture Died
“No one knew it at the time, but 2014 — more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie moment — marked the peak of a monoculture that no longer exists.”
Mario and the New Fandom Flywheel
“Two-thirds of Gen Zs spend more time with fan-created content than with the official titles”
Only 5% of Gen Zers said they’re cutting back on YouTube
“Social media teams are going to have to get more serious about YouTube this year.”
YouTube is in its studio era
“But I’m still bullish on creators.”
Being an influencer has replaced everything
“There's a reason why Timoth Chalamet is spamming your feeds with viral little moments. Even at his level, it is required if you want to have any chance at all.”
YouTube Face Has Infected the Internet
“Appleby didn’t know it at the time, but he was supercharging an entire visual genre of the internet—an undeniably effective and contagious one, but also one that would progressively become more loathed. He was the J. Robert Oppenheimer of YouTube Face.”
Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones
“It just really does allow you to shut off the rest of the world.”
The Obscure Media Theory That Explains '99% of Everything'
“I’m very interested in a phenomenon that I call the antisocial century, the idea that for a variety of reasons, we are spending much more time alone. And that is having a bunch of second and third order effects.”
The Obscure Media Theory That Explains '99% of Everything'
“I’m very interested in a phenomenon that I call the antisocial century, the idea that for a variety of reasons, we are spending much more time alone. And that is having a bunch of second and third order effects.”
The New Creator Economy Is Monetizing Your AI Brain
“What if you could subscribe to a domain expert's AI brain the way you subscribe to their newsletter?”
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