Ryan Broderick

Wow, these view counts are insane.

These view counts are aggregate across all of the clips, by the way.

Yeah, Asmongold is in here.

Aiden Ross is in here.

We should probably do an episode on him at some point.

A lot of these people I've never heard of.

I have no idea who Nino Drama is.

Oh, Neon I'm familiar with.

He's a scumbag.

We should probably do an episode about him.

Oh, and this is a chart that Clavicular shared himself.

And I wanted to start there because I think this is probably the most accurate way to think about popularity on the internet right now.

And it's in line with my personal belief that the minute something on the internet has a name, it is effectively already over.

So the minute a meme has a name, the meme is probably dead.

The minute there's some sort of strategy or growth hack or meta that people are doing, I would like to talk about the end.

Well, I guess we can talk about the beginning first.

But I think the short-form video economy is about to collapse.

And I think it is happening as we speak.

I think this is all shifting because everyone has figured it out, which is that the key to virality is to pay attention.

So Adam and I, our intrepid researcher, we're trying to put a date.