Hank Green

You know, there was a time when making a newspaper was extremely cheap.

You could give them away for less than the cost of print because of advertising.

Suddenly there was all this distribution, yellow journalism, everybody fighting for attention with the most sensational headlines and following, you know, murders and like just like so.

So we're doing that.

That's where we're at right now in online media.

And then eventually, you know, something happened.

And by 1980, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times had editorial standards in a huge mode, and they worked really hard to get things right all the time so that you could trust them, unlike those crappy newspapers.

And like, that's just what's happening?

Yeah.

And so like you and I are saying like Vox, Vox is a brand.

The Verge is a brand.

And you can trust us in a different way than you trust some guy on TikTok.

And when I'm 20, I don't get that.

But when I'm 30, I do.

And when I'm 20, I don't have money.

And when I'm 30, I do.

And when I'm 20, I'm not subscribing to anything.

I'm just watching whatever comes across my feed.

And when I'm 30, I type in theverge.com, the last website on earth.

We're going to change the domain name.