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My observation of current social media as a meme:

I dunno, don't think it's a bubble man. They do these silly videos because millions of people out there are pacified by them, which is useful to advertisers and politicians.

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73 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 11 Sep
They do these silly videos because millions of people out there are pacified by them, which is useful to advertisers and politicians.

Sounds like a bubble to me: there is a specific audience, and there are "performers" for that audience.

Would you say it’s different on SN? Isn’t there also a specific audience here, and some are “performing” for that audience? Do you think stackers are immune from audience capture?

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I think what I mean is that the audience, the demand for brainless content to pacify your feelings with, is universal and not a bubble, thus the influencer trend is not a bubble

Same with SN... SN will be around as long as there's demand for the type of content that gets put here. In that sense, SN's fate is heavily tied to the popularity of bitcoin.

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52 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 11 Sep

If that wasn't clear, I mean the social phenomenon of bubbles, not economic bubbles

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oh, that changes it entirely

i see what you mean now

yes, SN is a bubble... haha... probably one of the weirdest ones of all

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