Ryan Broderick

And so we have moved back to that.

And a thing that I've been cooking on for a little bit is I believe that that is actually a recession indicator.

I was looking at research.

I've been looking at research about the rise of the first troll armies.

And so Japan is a really good one to look at.

So the Netoyoku basically appear after an economic collapse in Japan.

And I'm trying to find more data about this because I believe that like angry sort of like faceless anonymous trolling and sort of anger and resentment is actually an economic like feature and not something that is attached to like a social media platform or a type of posting.

But I'm doing more research on that because I think it's really interesting.

Yeah, because it comes around every time like there's like a lot of economic disparity and it sort of thrives on resentment.

And so you get like people being like, how dare you have a good life?

An editor of mine years ago had this great line that I'm going to butcher that was something like, we will look back and realize that the invention of Instagram came immediately before the invention of the guillotine of the future.

Once we can see the inside of people's homes, there will be an uprising and anger because they can see what they don't have.

And something I think about a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm all for it.

I think it's great.

march 2020 or since really summer 2020 like it just feels like that is more normalized now like think of the internet like a physical space like so like a big room and there's a bunch of people who've been in there since the early 90s then you get a bunch more people who come in towards the end of the 2000s and then the whole world shows up in 2020.

And so you have a lot of people who are sort of used to the mechanics of it, understand it.

And you have a bunch of people who have only heard about it or sort of seen it from a distance.

And I think it's half the people who are already there going after the new people.