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Weldon: Creators oversimplify AI agent deployment to sell courses
“These YouTuber are mostly Instagram. Actually, Instagram is amazing for these things. They're just promoting their stuff to sell their program, to get you, to make you feel like it's simple to do and to build an alpha, super simple, make it work in your busine…”
Wong: Asian KOLs frequently purchase likes, comments, and followers
“A lot of them boost particular posts that they have. Not in the traditional sense of Instagram or Facebook posting their posts. I think that's the biggest issue here. They purchase likes, they purchase comments, they purchase followers.”
Wong: Asian KOL fans will pay for standard Instagram-style content
“And when we typically find content creators in Asia, especially in Taiwan, Malaysia, or even Korea, a lot of these KOLs, you know, what we typically see is that their fans are more than willing to pay for their content. And this kind of content is typically wh…”
Wade: Friends-of-friends privacy models fail before a social network reaches scale
“When there is zero or a hundred or a thousand friends of friends is very limited, right? Because you don't have a lot of friends on there. It's not, it hasn't reached the scale of Instagram and Facebook and whatnot. And so like that, that's the gap that I'm aw…”
Frasier: Social algorithms penalize accounts and posts that include outbound links
“Anytime you're encouraging people to leave the algorithms for social media will start to punish your account. This is something people don't talk about. So YouTube, for instance, when you create a YouTube video in the description, the first thing that you say …”