Neal Freiman

He gave an interview saying he thinks Instagram has a more robust ecosystem.

YouTube has their shorts program where you can bring people in and then use it for long form as well.

And he says that TikTok is just not as conducive to building that community.

He says he doesn't hear people saying that they're TikTokers anymore.

Like that term is maybe a relic of 2021 and 2022.

So I think TikTok, even though it's been saved through this years long process, I think still needs to figure out where it stands in the ecosystem, whether it held this commanding lead that it did.

So I watched this live.

I did.

And it was one of the more remarkable things I've ever seen.

The most impressive thing.

Like it was astonishing to watch.

Your heart was in your mouth for the first half hour.

But then when he got up to the middle rungs and he was doing the same move over and over again, I honestly just like was kind of looking at my phone.

Kids these days, Neil.

I just had complete confidence in him.

And sometimes when the broadcast went completely silent, they had this the setup where there were a few commentators and they just went completely silent and it was just him.

You heard a little of the wind and he was just climbing and in the zone was just one of the most amazing things I've seen and perhaps a vindication of Netflix's.

live strategy where you really didn't know what was going to happen this guy is on the face of a skyscraper thousand feet up and i don't know i just i thought it was pretty incredible television a few other details i thought were pretty interesting he does listen to music while he climbs and the music he listened to was tool he loves really he loves he loves like pretty heavy rock music yeah right music

He knows how long each of the songs is, and it helps him keep pace.

I mean, he rocketed up this thing.