Taylor Lorenz

And I just think that this is interesting because it's affecting our world.

I mean, a lot, I think, in the media has been written about polymarket and the way that it's manipulating people.

sort of reality in these ways.

I think it's bigger than polymarket.

And I think you can look at this cluster of platforms all in the same realm.

I was giving this example yesterday.

I work in downtown LA and I saw this guy doing this like weird chalk thing and he seemed kind of crazy.

And I

my first thought was like, is this promotion for like, what is he doing?

Is he being paid?

Is there a stream?

I'm like looking for the streaming camera around him.

Like, I think that there's just a lot of things where if you're walking around New York city or you're walking around a major American city or even a non-major American city, Minneapolis or something, right?

Like you see weird things taking place.

You see these things happening.

You see these stunts.

Um, and often they're in service of a meme coin.

There are some, you just, it's

person that's been hired to do that for some reason.

Maybe they're trying to make good on a polymarket bet.