social media

19 statements across 16 episodes · 8 bullish · 5 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jan 6, 2022 by Gary Vaynerchuk · across every show →

Everything said about social media, oldest first

Jan 6, 2022 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Vaynerchuk: 90% of Initial Brand NFT Drops Will Be Garbage
“I think it's gonna be just like social. 90% up front are gonna make garbage. 10%, if you remember early brands on social, Zappos had a big move on it that worked for them. There were some other brands that did a really nice job. Then you look at brands that we…”
Gary Vaynerchuk Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 21:44 NFTs with Gary Vaynerchuk | Where It Happens
Apr 28, 2022 negative
Insight
Housel: Social media trolling has zero downside and huge viral upside
“Not only are you not going to get punched in the face, you're probably going to get a thousand retweets, which you like. Like not only do you have no downside, you have all, you have huge upside by being a troll.”
Morgan Housel Apr 28, 2022 ▶ 52:43 How To Invest Like An Optimist With Morgan Housel
Apr 28, 2022 neutral
Insight
Housel: Online reach amplifies both novel ideas and the risk of cancellation
“It's easier to get your crazy ideas attention. And it's also easier for your crazy ideas to ruin your life.”
Morgan Housel Apr 28, 2022 ▶ 48:19 How To Invest Like An Optimist With Morgan Housel
Apr 28, 2022 negative
Insight
Housel: Social media causes road-rage-style dehumanization when facing handles instead of people
“Once you're not talking to a person, you're talking to a handle, then all, all humanity goes out the window. And it's just like in road rage, it's easy to like flip someone off and scream at them. But if you actually get out of your car and see the person, you…”
Morgan Housel Apr 28, 2022 ▶ 50:32 How To Invest Like An Optimist With Morgan Housel
May 19, 2022
Disclosure
Wilkinson delegates a screen time passcode to cap his daily social media
“I also use screen time very aggressively. So I have somebody else set my screen time passcode. I totally limit my ability to look at news, social media for more than about two to three minutes a day. And that has really deprogrammed my brain.”
Andrew Wilkinson May 19, 2022 ▶ 15:19 Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
Feb 2, 2023 positive
Insight
Startups should leverage existing viral channels instead of creating new ones
“Like a huge thing that I believe is social media is sort of like a web of just like the neurons in a brain. Everyone is just sending stuff through the different distribution channels. But the one thing to note is those distribution channels are already made. Y…”
Chris Josephs Feb 2, 2023 ▶ 3:45 Unveiling Chris Josephs' Million-Dollar Meme Strategy
Feb 9, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Postma: Social Media Will Die in Five Years Due to AI
“I'm pretty sure. Like I think social media, how we know it is going to be dead in five years because everything is going to be fake. So either people are going to love it or no one's going to use it because it's going to be a black forest effect.”
Danny Postma Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 4:17 From Zero to Millions: Danny Postma Reveals AI App Strategies for Success
May 18, 2023
Insight
Nickson: Driving commerce is the best indicator of audience quality
“To me, like the sort of the best indicator of a quality audience is how much commerce you're able to push, right? Because ultimately, you know, people don't like to admit it, but like social media really is kind of a status game. And at the bottom of it, like …”
Roberto Nickson May 18, 2023 ▶ 18:13 Roberto Nickson Grew 400K+ Followers In 100 Days: Here's How
Sep 7, 2023 positive
Insight
Girdley: Vulnerable 40- and 50-somethings face a blue ocean on social media
“If you would actually be one of the people in their forties or fifties, who's learned some stuff and it's like willing to put yourself out there and be a little bit vulnerable, like it is such a blue ocean for us. Like we have such an opportunity to share and …”
Michael Girdley Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 55:08 How Holdco Legend Michael Girdley is Playing Multi-Decade Games (and Winning)
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Insight
Isenberg: Most social media followings come from a few mega-viral posts
“That's the secret that people don't talk about in social media, which is most followings. Come from a very small amount of posts going mega viral. Like it's really about a home run. Like you just need a home run.”
Greg Isenberg Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 24:27 How Jay Clouse Built a $500,000 ARR Community (in Less than 2 Years)
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Insight
Clouse: Top-of-Funnel Social Media Forces Creators onto an Endless Content Treadmill
“When you are playing the social media game as part of your top of funnel, That's, that becomes a lot of production on its own, let alone whatever that is moving towards. So you get in this place where it's like, I am creating so much all the time just to remai…”
Jay Clouse Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 37:39 How Jay Clouse Built a $500,000 ARR Community (in Less than 2 Years)
Oct 5, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Diego Perez: Wisdom Ventures aims to fund non-addictive social media
“When we first created wisdom ventures, that was a lot of the conversation was like, we were, we're hoping to invest in that next generation of social media that can help connect people without all these addictive, like byproducts.”
Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) Oct 5, 2023 ▶ 5:54 How To Build An Audience From Scratch | Yung Pueblo
Apr 24, 2024 negative
Opinion
Cohen: Most social media growth advice lacks validated data backing
“I think the question of how to quote unquote, how to do social media well. I don't think is very data-based and you could potentially argue it's not possible to be data-based cause it's too complicated and there's too much that the noise of what happens online…”
Jason Cohen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 13:49 $100M+/Year Founder Reveals a Brilliant Startup Idea Built on Top of Twitter
Sep 24, 2024 bullish
Insight
Isenberg: New social accounts can hit 250K monthly impressions in 90 days
“I do this with a bunch of new accounts, and I start from zero, and it's totally doable that within 90 days, you can start getting 250,000 impressions per month.”
Greg Isenberg Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 4:25 My $0 to $10 Million step-by-step guide (watch this)
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brown: People will prompt full movies with perfect audio in 739 days
“People are going to be creating movies with prompts 739 days from now, with perfect dialogue, with perfect speech with great background music, like, all of the models are going to be integrated into these videos and it's going to completely disrupt social medi…”
Riley Brown Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 14:56 The Future of AI with Riley Brown
Apr 30, 2025 bullish
Insight
Isenberg: Generative AI video offers a Pixar-level social media arbitrage
“There's this arbitrage moment that exists right now where you can actually go and create Pixar level content that's gonna fly on social media if it's actually good and your competitors are not.”
Greg Isenberg Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 15:20 How I use AI agents to make money (Vibe Marketing Tutorial)
Jun 9, 2025 neutral
Insight
Meng To: Large social followings sell products regardless of quality
“If you have like a huge channel on social media, regardless of how bad your product is, as long as you have the functionality, people will buy it.”
Meng To Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 17:51 How to get 10x more out of Lovable, Cursor, v0
Jun 16, 2025
Insight
Isenberg: Social media growth is fundamentally a game of formats
“Social is a game of formats. So, you know, there must be a way to use his formats in another niche.”
Greg Isenberg Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 12:11 Perplexity's new AI agents are INSANE
Oct 20, 2025 bullish
Insight
Courtney: Doing the exact opposite of AI trends is a massive opportunity
“I think that there's a massive opportunity or lots of massive opportunities to take a look at what's happening in the AI space, the social media space, the content space, just go the opposite way. And you're going to find that a lot of people want exactly that…”
Jonathan Courtney Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 1:34 Make $1M+ in 2026 with this Trend (IRL is back)
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