A full-time lifestyle influencer shares why she feels this path is no longer for her. Really great POV
“I’m tired of making everything about myself. My job requires me to look at myself, talk about myself, post myself, and reply to comments about myself. It is way too much of a…
•
@coldxman
's appearance on The View
"There's no evidence that I've been co-opted by anyone. I have an independent podcast, I work for CNN as an analyst, I write for The Free Press, I'm independent in all of these endeavors and no one is paying me to say what I'm saying"
Just saw my childhood best friend for the first time in 2 years.
We had the same background - yet one makes $3K/mo, the other $300K+/mo. Here’s why:
(Warning for procrastinators)
This girl has just 7k followers on TikTok where the video has 150k views and the comments are all civilized
But on Twitter, there are countless reposts garnering millions of views with much of the discourse being straight up evil. She’s just trying to find peace in her journey —…
Her life doesn’t revolve around her family and kids so instead it revolves around TV shows and pop stars. Worst of all she’s too stupid to realize how depressing this is.
This video from
@TaylorLorenz
about the potential collapse of journalism is deeply important. Especially over the past 48 hours
“I don’t think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists”
“I don’t want to live in a world where all of the news is delivered…
A trend has been going on with the Ray Ban Meta smart glasses the past two weeks on TikTok. One video has 123 million views — many others have millions
It’s unclear if it organically happened amongst those with large followings after one person’s video went crazy, or if there’s…
Found two of the OG TikToks — they’re from creators with large audiences. While this will undoubtedly be a thing, these examples seem to potentially fabricate the tech’s capabilities? Like it would make sense for the “Ours” examples to show different moves than the OGs, right ?
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16:13 - Education example (ft. countries and world…
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Then shut the fuck up and get to work
Twitter had its positioning in the bag to win the long-game, but YOU created Zuck’s in. Meta started this project in January after recognizing the widening cultural gap Twitter now had bc you were straying it away from its potential
"The recommended way forward will be to invoke the Selective Service Act, as is my authority as president"
"The first to be called will be men and women who's 20th birthday falls during calendar year 2023"
A sneak preview of things to come
She posts a lot and likely felt safe sharing this within her current bubble. TikTok’s hyper-personalized alg tends to keep comment sections quite positive for smaller accounts
An unfortunate reality check to experience what can happen outside of that. People can be so shitty
Former Director of Product Management at Twitter
“I quickly learned that product and business decisions were nearly always the result of Elon following his gut instinct, and he didn’t seem compelled to seek out or rely on a lot of data or expertise to inform it. That was…
Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company.
I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in…
Of course, the sensational corners of Twitter are running with this video. The classic viral TikTok → Twitter repost hate cycle. Meanwhile, her critique is deeply valid + important
@miaferrariii
I speak with ChatGPT everyday and am wildly cordial. My initial input is just how I jokingly greet friends and then I decided to move forward with pushback to test boundaries — which were telling
I have never turned on Siri, nor have I ever owned an Alexa, Google Home, etc. If the system is listening for “Hey [Name]”, it’s always listening
While unsettling, this week, two projects were announced that have a main selling point of just that… that the devices will always…
Obviously they overlap + build on one another, but in relation to childhood…
• Millennials = rise of the internet
• Gen Z = rise of social media
• Gen Alpha = rise of AI
Gen Z isn’t as digitally literate as we think we are. All generations are victims of misinformation on social media, but Gen Z is particularly great at giving it more reach
I had the honor of interviewing Noam Chomsky about the ever-evolving media landscape, how we can turn truth into action, and much more. Check out our conversation today on
@MasterClass
Solar eclipse shift was real. It’s time to be outside ! It’s time for community ! It’s time to start smiling at strangers and making small talk. It’s time to look up
If we took away public metrics (likes, followers, etc) ppl would better comprehend how fucking brain dead the content they’re consuming is. But rn they have an incentive not to reflect on that bc they see [x number] of thousands or millions of ppl are also giving it attention
At the Senate hearing with Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord CEOs. Wild angle Zuckerberg decided to take in his opening statement: “The existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes”
Both of these girls have around 35k followers on TikTok — generally significant, but relatively low for creators on the platform. The video on the left has about 2M views and the video on the right has about 5M views on the platform
Girl on the left approached the situation very…
Sat down with
@Spotify
co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek (
@eldsjal
) to discuss their new pursuit within Audiobooks, as well as how he’s thinking about artificial intelligence and competing with Big Tech
A video of teenage boys at a Sweet 16 went viral last month but now millions of TikTok users are analyzing and ranking their social standings in the situation
“Every person on-screen has been put under a magnifying glass to the point where each one has been given their own lore…
Elon plays too much. The potential of a text-based platform is serious and will win the long-game amongst all social media platforms. Instead of coming into Twitter and tackling its core cultural voids, his priorities and messaging approach ended up creating bigger ones
While…
Fascinating —
@MKBHD
’s YouTube subscriber ratio is 97% male and 3% female
As a female whose deeply curious about tech, I can’t even really watch his videos. Like they’re amazing, but there just seems to be a biological wire that I do not have for tech hardware reviews lmfao
OnlyFans is dark. Point blank period
I highly respect that he’s being vocal about this realization after falling into OF with wide eyes. It’s just tough to understand how people don’t see this from the start — and why so many are afraid to tell them
TikTok’s attention to detail within the attention economy is unmatched. Aside from the algorithm, I don’t think people realize just how much they lead in terms of features, intuitiveness, etc
This deep fake video of
@elonmusk
has 1.7M views on TikTok and the majority of people in the comment section don’t even realize it’s fake + a promotion. There are a bunch of other versions also going viral
Obviously they overlap + build on one another, but in relation to childhood…
• Millennials = rise of the internet
• Gen Z = rise of social media
• Gen Alpha = rise of AI
“Only at a place like The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal do you have months to investigate a story and you don’t have to worry about views. You can do these stories where there’s a real public interest — The Washington Post series on the AR-15 last…
A lot of the work that sits best with the soul, does not sit best with the algorithm. … so I don’t pay much attention to numbers and just trust my intuition
Regardless, this is a milestone. Hit 10k subscribers at the same time one of my videos hit 50k views for the first time…
These Zs feel that, on average, our generation has a weaker understanding of technology’s nuances
Not crazy to assume we’re more social media savvy, but maybe less hardware/software savvy
@RIKKISCHLOTT
@joerogan
@jordanbpeterson
I never understood why Andrew Tate gets grouped in with Rogan and Peterson. Totally different realm and there’s no way those guys fw him holistically
Re: “Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time. To avoid angering the almighty algorithm, people are creating a new vocabulary”
via
@TaylorLorenz
|
Twitter is currently the only social media platform that has a policy protecting general consent. The report has to be in first-person, aka whoever is featured in the media
(Video posted 12.05.2021)
*And remember kids, the next time someone says Big Tech wouldn’t do that… oh yes they would
From
@guardian
: “Meta began blocking news from appearing across its platforms in Canada this month after prolonged negotiations with the government over Canada’s new Online News Act.
As…
It’s media addiction, not phone addiction. Smartphone-native platforms just serve media best (as of today) and also made publishing media so easy that there’s a never-ending, unfathomable abundance of it (+ personal media tends to be more entertaining/captivating)
But yes,…
TikTok users are frustrated by some of the Congress members’ social media knowledge.
@RepBuddyCarter
even revived the false understanding of the “NyQuil Chicken Challenge”
My FYP is filled with commentary on every moment of the hearing. It’s fascinating
“The constant race to be the “main character” and have a spotless record where you never do anything cringe, cancellable, or anything, has seemingly caused Gen Z to grow a profound fear of being both an outcast AND part of a group”