Wyatt Cenac
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312 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Sure, I'll answer your question, but I've got a question for you first.
So when you were watching the old Snowstorm footage,
Was there a certain comfort that you found in that coverage, whether it was them talking about it's a catastrophe and the fact that we obviously survived it, or just in the way that they were talking about it as it related to the way that people talked about this snowstorm?
Yeah, I agree with that.
There's a part of it where I see a certain comfort when I look at those commercials because there is the nostalgia part of it.
But then
It's weird because watching like whatever, an hour of commercials from the 1980s or something like that, when you watch them, I do find myself thinking this just is kind of what TikTok has become.
And I don't go on TikTok.
I don't look at that as a feed.
But I found myself, as I'm watching these compilations, I'm realizing this is kind of...
old, like, prototype TikTok.
Like, this is kind of the original TikTok in a way, like, commercials, because you have these highly produced ones that there's a lot of money in, and then you get some local car dealer or insurance company, and the production value is terrible, and...
It doesn't feel that different than the person who has a video that goes viral and it's their kids saying something dumb or it just feels like, oh, these these things feel really similar.
What feels a little more pure is that these commercials are all very much out in the open trying to sell me something.
They are not hiding the fact that this is a commercial enterprise where TikTok is trying to present itself as we're connecting people all over the world in ways that you never thought.
And the reality is we're scraping your data and selling it to advertisers to push things to you.
And this isn't really- It's less insidious.
Yeah, this isn't really about you connecting with that person across an ocean.
This is about us making connections between you, that person across the ocean, this other person, this other person, and then packaging that and selling it to someone who can then push a product down your throat.
Yeah, no, there's one of my favorite commercials is this one from the 80s and the production value on it.
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