Taylor Lorenz

We have main characters like within sort of sub communities, like there are these like points of discourse or there are these sort of like niche personalities that everybody knows.

But like, I don't know, like it seems like less and less we're getting the like the type of posts that we saw like 2020 to 2024 maybe.

Yeah, I agree with you.

You know, it's interesting.

Did you see that tweet from Twitter's head of product, Nikita Beer, saying that they were going to help, you know, they were seeking to attract new communities such as women?

I think the mechanics are different, and I think we're so aware of the cycle.

And to go back to the crypto people that tried to exploit it and stuff, I feel like we went through the whole cycle of all this.

And now it's like, okay, I think even the NFT crypto people have realized that there's no immediate benefit.

They can't necessarily capture it.

Access continues to sort of change and evolve their monetization schemes.

Like you said, TikTok has lost its juice.

Social media has lost its juice.

I mean, like there is that stat showing that time spent on social media had declined.

It's declining across apps.

I think also we're about to see it decline even further.

We're seeing people act

actively becoming aware of how angry time on some of these apps makes them.

And so I think they're seeking to engage when they see these cycles of discourse, they sort of recognize it maybe a little bit more instead of getting triggered.

But it feels like we're moving towards a different internet and that era of the internet feels dated.

Come on over.