Adam Oleksik

That's also what 6-7 was parroting at the core of it because it comes from this joke that you could go viral by saying 6-7.

So people said 6-7 to go viral.

It was a little self-referential.

It was a nod to itself.

And then, yeah, drifts from NBA players who are saying this to go viral to Gen Alpha kids who are saying this to go viral.

And then it goes off camera.

And now the implied joke is still this possibility that a camera is watching you.

And I think that's maybe a defining trend that I keep seeing, that we're kind of aware of this constant surveillance or panopticon, and we're ironically performing for the algorithm when we say 6-7.

And the early iteration of the joke now, of course, it just is layered into abstraction.

I think it's like 50% or something.

It's not astronaut anymore.

We want to be seen and there's more seeing going on.

I kind of worry about the amount of seeing that we're doing.

I was in Washington Square Park

A few months back, and I saw somebody with, like, the meta glasses trying to, like, make Riz content, and he was, like, talking up girls.

But, like, it's not a real flirtation.

He's performing.

He's clip farming, you know?

Right.

I see, like, politicians saying stuff that they know will algorithmically go viral later, but in the present moment, they sacrifice, like, a moment of decorum.