Taylor Lorenz

You know what I mean?

Like there wasn't, people weren't even posting very much.

It was mostly like, I mean, the internet was like, yeah, it was like from like recent grad millennials.

No, that was Tim Herrera.

It was so small.

It was so small.

I do remember shortly after I graduated, I went to a BuzzFeed meetup and it was like fans of BuzzFeed.

It was like Matt Stapara organizing it.

I want to say like 2009 or 10.

It was like really like...

early days but so i think like i mean instagram only launched in 2010 there weren't that many places for sort of like public posts and twitter was the only platform that allowed for like public discovery of posts in that way as well because facebook was your friends facebook was still dominant that was the platform that most people were using that was really just your friends it wasn't getting travel people weren't getting outraged in the same way yeah it felt like twitter was the open water in a way yes

Oh, yeah.

They were basically memes.

Yeah.

You're right.

Like, right.

It was like internet figures.

That were the main character.

Cause they were all viral, like the double rainbow guy or something.

And it wasn't negative in the same way.