Ryan Broderick

The bosses could not because you're never going to get a website as easy and simple to use as Twitter.

Sure.

And so I spent the majority of my career in newsrooms either explaining something that was happening on Twitter to a boss or having a boss assign me something to do based on what they saw on Twitter.

I no longer work in newsrooms, but from what I've heard is that after Elon Musk bought Twitter...

Those bosses have stayed.

They might not be posting, but the number one complaint I'm hearing from creatives, but specifically journalists working in newsrooms right now, is that their Gen X bosses have had their brains completely melted.

And once you understand that the few remaining gatekeepers and arbiters of how culture works are watching clavicular clips on X all day and have no fucking idea what they're looking at or what it means or what it doesn't mean, everything makes sense.

Everything.

So like, for instance, like I had, I had questions asked about, um, like by like a media industry kind of person about, I show speed.

Because they had seen Aisho Speed's clips of him in China and Africa, which are awesome.

And I love Aisho Speed.

Especially, I think I've talked about how funny I think White Speed is.

His villain that shows up in random places and chases him around.

The whole clipping industry.

Do you think that's kayfabe?

Oh.

You think this random white guy just like appeared in rural Africa out of nowhere?

I want to believe Ryan.

I mean, after the jump to the paywall, we can talk about how short-form videos turned the entire world into WWE and that's having some pretty severe consequences to society if you ask people like Vitaly or Johnny Somali this week, but we'll get there.

The last point I want to make here on the free side of things is the views that you're seeing on these short-form clips do not have to reflect anything because the point is to legitimize whoever is putting them out.