Andrew Manganelli
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's almost as if he needs another person to play chess.
Like social media just flattens everything.
You lose nuance.
It hit the Twitter number one, what's happening today thing.
Someone sent me a screenshot of that.
You know, it's super funny, too, is the amount of people that like acquaintances that I have that sent me like meme compilation pages that just stole the post and like removed my name.
yeah this is David's picture yeah so he tweeted this six years ago now I know what it feels yeah exactly now I know what it feels like to have someone just rip your content and make put it on meme pages and stuff yeah but I've had a ton of people send me like various meme pages that just it's like whatever Marquez has no experience with that not at all I was gonna say welcome to the life cycle of a viral social media post yeah it will be stripped of its context and re-digested by every other commentator and their own angle yeah
and there's nothing you can do about it.
The thing about social media that I think sometimes is interesting.
Okay, I had a conversation.
This is an off-camera, off-kilter, random conversation I had with a YouTube engineer about features that they could add or not add to YouTube.
And they told me in a few words that they tend to be pretty minimal with the features that they add or don't add.
And algorithmically, they could make big changes, but they tend not to.
And they let people's algorithms reflect them.
Like they could choose to push certain things or even remove certain things from the algorithm because it would be better for society in their own judgment.
But the second you make a judgment and influence it, then slippery slope, you have to judge a whole bunch of other things.
There's also all the Section 230 problems that come along with that.
So his basic stance was like, YouTube is like a, it's so dense with media and so many people and so much stuff that it's kind of just like a mirror of society and all the good and all the bad.
And when a post goes viral,