Ryan Broderick

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.

And the fact that they are not being put out by themselves anymore is both a platform hack.

Like, as in, like, it's not like the Clavicular account is where you're watching Clavicular.

You're watching it via 19 Nigerian guys chopping it up and putting it on every platform for, like, cents on the dollar, you know, in their little Discord chat.

That is...

a reflection of how the platforms are penalizing the follower metric.

Like platforms do not want followers anymore.

They want a Netflix style experience where you just refresh the feed and you don't follow any accounts.

And so they're killing big follower accounts and they're freezing large follower accounts out because they're too powerful.

You need the hub, but you need the hub off algorithm.

So like, I mean, that's why the podcast, that's why podcasting was so early to clipping was because the podcast is the hub.

The live stream is the hub in the, in the music industry.