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“Blue Sky Is now north of twenty-five million users, and it's well on its way to, let's, let, let's say that by this time next year, maybe even sooner, Blue Sky is gonna be around a 100,000, Blue Sky will be around a hundred million users, which I looked up th…”

“The most embarrassing moment in social media history as far as I'm concerned. Acting like that was anything other than just like a conference call simulator for board rich guys during the pandemic. I hate that app.”

“You just can't run a proper company with viral traffic anymore. It doesn't translate.”

“They're not opposites in the sense that, like, EA are communists. Like, they're both pretty aligned on the idea of making as much money as humanly possible. They're both supported by a lot of anti-democratic thinkers. They're both sort of center to not maybe j…”

“EA people should be, like, super into vaccinations or, like, preparing for the covid-twenty-four or whatever, but they've determined that it is the ultimate risk to humanity because it's exciting and interesting, and it, like, makes for a good post. And that i…”

“At the middle 2000, there was the rise of a very kind of niche, but influential message board and blog called less wrong and less wrong... Was the birthplace for several Sort of digital philosophies, online philosophies. So the big one is obviously effective a…”

“I have not found much difference in what these two groups want, only the timeframe in which they want them to happen. It is, it, in my opinion, I have not seen enough difference between the two.”

“Effective accelerationism was more or less a meme until last week. Like it wasn't really even like a thing. It was sort of just like a way to make older Silicon Valley guys look cringe or more cringe.”

“I think that if there's really any legacy from the last week of drama instead of opening AI, it's that the acceleration is all found each other. And like, now know how to talk about each other. And now we'll start to see sort of like those memes becoming more …”

“I think that the philosophies that we've seen sort of emerge and the rebranding of these philosophies that we've seen happen over the last month or so have a good chance of outliving the generative AI fad.”

“Internet culture became culture in twenty-twenty. This is like the moment where, you know, Stephen Colbert is wearing AirPods and doing his TV show on Zoom from his bathtub. You know, the barriers broke down. Every family got a group chat that didn't have one.…”

“They don't need aggregators. They don't need communities to surface things for them. It's kind of becoming it's, it feels counterintuitive, but essentially if you're a super normal person who likes really basic stuff like a blowjob joke or going to Costco, you…”

“When you and I first started working together, you know, stumble upon was the thing driving the most traffic, not Facebook for most publishers.”

“I would say that on the normie internet, the zinternet, you know, however you want to describe it, there are essentially two kinds of things that are constantly going viral. Stuff that local radio stations would talk about 30 years ago, and stuff that would be…”

“A recent report in Newsweek estimates that 1.4 million American women are using OnlyFans.”

“So as paywalls have filled up the web, I think that has also changed the nature of what we're all seeing, which is that it's all getting lazier and sillier, because, and more provocative, because it's trying to get you to go behind the paywall.”

“When Hawk Tua blew up, she was reached out to by Jake Paul's production company, and he's essentially created a company that captures viral stars and then figures out how to effectively franchise them.”