Giannis Pappas

It's China's victory cry.

Yeah, we got him.

That's what I think.

I think China TikTok'd us into a fucking coma.

They certainly have, yeah.

I think we did it to ourselves partially, but I also think for sure, just like I said, it has an effect on narratives about which way people believe, what they agree with and don't agree with.

Whatever they can show you on that algorithm that shapes things in a certain direction.

Well, I think they saw what our culture's about, what our weakness was, and they used it against us.

You know, fame, what we worship, Tom Cruise, fame.

And then once they democratized fame, they were like, oh, let's use this.

Let's promote, let's make stupid people famous.

Let's make simple things famous.

Let's push these in the algorithm so people see it because then Americans will go, oh, I can get famous too.

And then everyone started becoming their own Madison Avenue agency marketing thing.

wacky zany versions of themselves if you know actors and you know actors and I know actors

Not all of them, but there's a percentage of them that aren't even people.

No, they're like vessels.

They're vessels of their fucking mind.

And if you can convince that guy that wearing a dress to the Golden Globes is going to get him more attention, he's going to do it.

Oh, yeah.