social media

10 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 8 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement May 7, 2023 by Sujeet Kumar · across every show →

Everything said about social media, oldest first

May 7, 2023 negative
Opinion
Kumar: Social Media Fits Fashion Commerce, Not Major Consumer Appliances
“Logically, let's say social media is one of the most leading channels. But for consumer goods, like white goods, Is it the performance? Is it the support? Is it the pricing? I don't know. Let's say buying AC on the social media is very hard to imagine.”
Sujeet Kumar May 7, 2023 ▶ 1:18:05 Ep #3| WTF is E-commerce: Kishore Biyani, Udaan & Meesho Founders Reveal What Sells and What Doesn’t · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bhat: AI will accelerate social media's psychological harms and envy
“Whatever social media did to the next generation's brain, AI will probably accelerate it. And that is kind of worrying, which is I think envy will go through all time high for those who are able to leverage it outside success for a lot more of your peers, whic…”
Tanmay Bhat May 14, 2023 ▶ 2:02:24 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 20, 2023 negative
Insight
Yassin: Social media offers 6-7 guaranteed viral crisis events annually
“So unfortunately, in social media, every year there's roughly like six to seven opportunities To go guaranteed viral. Guaranteed. Any video you make about a topic, it will go viral. Unfortunately, a lot of people utilize that just to get attention.”
Nuseir Yassin Nov 20, 2023 ▶ 46:37 Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath
May 24, 2025 negative
Opinion
YouTube is a video platform, not social media or linear television
“We're not social media. We're not a place where you go To connect or share with your friends. You're primarily there to watch video. And we're not sort of linear, traditional television either.”
Neal Mohan May 24, 2025 ▶ 14:05 Nikhil Kamath x YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan | People by WTF Ep. 9 · Nikhil Kamath
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Insight
Al Olama: Social media makes Machiavellian political deception impossible to sustain
“If you apply Machiavelli's thinking, Tony Prince that acts philanthropic, or acts kind, or acts like a family man, especially in our DNA with social media, it's absolutely impossible. Because you will have one bad moment, and it will come out. Regardless of ho…”
HE Omar Sultan Al Olama Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 30:55 The Case for Youth in Politics | HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (One of the World's Youngest Ministers) · Nikhil Kamath
Feb 11, 2026 negative
Opinion
Harari: Delegating public conversation to algorithms was humanity's biggest mistake
“Our biggest mistake is that over the last 10 years, we gave one of the most important jobs in the world to algorithms, and they did a terrible, terrible job.”
Yuval Noah Harari Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 41:29 Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Feb 11, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kamath: Gen Z is spending significantly less time on social media
“Data shows that the youngest of people, age group, 16 to 20, 22, are spending lesser time on social media, significantly lesser.”
Nikhil Kamath Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 44:58 Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Feb 11, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Harari: Taiwan built social algorithms that reward cross-group consensus over outrage
“Like you had these models from Taiwan, that they actually built it and it worked well, that you can take the same basic premises of social media and reverse them. You can have the algorithm rewarding content, like the algorithm, first of all, in this Taiwan sy…”
Yuval Noah Harari Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 45:42 Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Insight
Palihapitiya: Domestic social platforms cannot defeat algorithmic monoculture without state intervention
“In the absence of governmental support and intervention, the answer is no. The natural momentum is for monocultural consolidation. And the reason is because we've assumed and we've given the responsibility to an algorithmic arbiter that only values one thing a…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 1:04:38 Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 11, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kamath: Major countries will develop sovereign versions of global tech platforms
“The way I'm looking at it with all the geopolitical stuff going on, if I were to wager a guess, I would think at some point in the future, we will all live in a more multipolar world where we individually countries go down the path of Russia and China, where m…”
Nikhil Kamath Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 38:11 The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath
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