#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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#190
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.”
Terminal Surrender
Every social media user is a day trader looking for God in the Like economy.
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.
#188Please let me phone my podcasts app
My perfect podcast app would be a long phone call in which I listen to the show and can also talk back to remember things.
#188What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
“In case you haven’t guessed it yet, it’s linked to prediction markets.”
Obsessed
Basically an AI-powered google alerts feed for topics you're obsessed with (waitlist)
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.”
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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This Is Why Every Video On YouTube Looks The Same
Adam Westbrook
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#186
This is not how creativity works. Artists are usually fascinated by a whole range of different interests, but on YouTube we're being forced to pick one and commit.
- I don't like computer anymore TikTok Sent #184
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This Cannes Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was AI Compute Costs
The Wall Street Journal
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#183
“The individual prompts were, on average, 3,000 words each.”
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The Feed Is Fake
Vulture
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#182
We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave, where what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind is often just shadows on the wall.
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Why Fashion Suddenly Loves Older Women
The New York Times
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#179
“what we’re really seeing is that brands are increasingly embracing models with visible signs of age, such as gray hair or wrinkles”
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The Veteran Podcasters Hanging Up Their Headphones
The Wall Street Journal
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#176
“Podcasters who spent the best part of a decade honing their craft and growing audiences are in a curious position: Burnt out or cast aside by fresh demands of the now thriving industry.”
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Being an influencer has replaced everything
Jason Pargin
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#174
“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.”
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The 'clippers' who make internet stars viral
NPR
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#173
“This is advertising that looks like authentic organic fandom.”