Tag: media

• The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012

  March 19, 2024

  From the first time I wrote about Gen Z in 2015 (with Greg Lukianoff, in our Coddling essay) through my most recent discussion in a December interview with Tunku Varadarajan… more ›

• The end of the MrBeast era

  March 14, 2024

  In the fall of 2023, a clip ripped from a video by Tom Simons and reposted on X (formerly Twitter) saw Irish YouTube entertainer Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin strapped to a… more ›

• March 14, 2024

  https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/openai-cto-sora-generative-video-interview-b66320bb?st=mmn6sheebyne9e4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink more ›

• A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day

  March 2, 2024

  In September 2023, WordPress. https://www.404media.co/wordpress-firehose-allows-ai-companies-to-buy-access-to-a-million-posts-a-day/ more ›

• Keily Blair, OnlyFans: ‘We are an incredible UK tech success story’

  March 1, 2024

  Keily Blair is the chief executive of OnlyFans, an online platform where sex workers, sports stars and celebrities sell subscriptions for access to images and personalised content. It was founded… more ›

• February 26, 2024

  https://timqueen.com/youtube-number-of-channels/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›

• All the garbage I found on Substack in 1 hour

  January 18, 2024

  Content warning: this post contains examples of rampant anti-Semitic hate speech, Nazism, white supremacy, some of the worst and weirdest anti-science/anti-vax stuff I’ve seen anywhere on the Internet, anti-trans hate… more ›

• How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse

  January 13, 2024

  This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta’s offices in San Francisco. http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-integrate-with-the-fediverse/ more ›

• Peak Hollywood

  January 12, 2024

  You are where you spend time. And my boys, like the rest of America’s youth, are TikTok. When asked whether they’d prefer TikTok or all other streaming platforms, tomorrow’s business/civic/military… more ›

• How Big is YouTube?

  December 25, 2023

  How big is YouTube? I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal of social media research focuses… more ›