Ryan Broderick

And it's the new people who do not know what they're doing, going after everybody and sort of aping the language of what they've seen before, especially with young kids, all the Zoom school kids who have nothing to do all day.

but like sort of obsess over pop stars and fight with each other.

Like the sort of Tumblr culture run rampant.

All of that hits like a neutron bomb in 2020.

And we're going to find out if the pre-COVID era was any different.

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And so what's really interesting in the pre-COVID era is there are obviously a ton of main characters during the Trump administration, but they're not super notable.

It's almost sort of like during the first Trump administration, every journalist had a target on their backs.

But you don't get a lot of the, like, random person tweets something stupid.

You get, like, I mean, there's the vagina plane incident.

I don't know if you remember that with US Airways where they accidentally tweeted porn.

Yes.

That was a really good day in my newsroom.

I opened up the post and just screamed and my editor at the time was like, what are you screaming about?

And I was like, ah, and then I, yeah, it was, it was a good day.

Um, and there was like lots of stuff like that, you know, brands behaving badly, Trump figures saying something stupid, but it kind of takes a break.

And this is what I talked about earlier, where like we had this.