226 - The Collapse of Social Media?
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | buddy the other day we were talking about the things that we wanted to talk about |
| 0:10.6 | conversations that we wanted to wait until we were on mics to have and i threw a topic out |
| 0:16.1 | that i've been wanting to talk to you about and that is the impending collapse of social media that I think might be coming |
| 0:23.4 | and you did not argue in any way you didn't push back or shape the topic you just sort of nodded |
| 0:29.5 | stoically like yes you have thoughts on that and you are observing things so I just wanted to |
| 0:35.2 | have the conversation we didn't have the other day. Are you seeing that? |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah. What are the indicators? One of the canaries in the coal mine for you? |
| 0:44.5 | I think the value of it is going down. And I think that's clear for most people. And so when it comes to social |
| 0:54.0 | interactions, |
| 0:55.8 | used to, you would say like, |
| 0:57.2 | hey, here's this picture I took. |
| 0:58.7 | What do you think? |
| 1:00.3 | And the responses used to be like, |
| 1:02.2 | oh, that's cool. |
| 1:02.9 | I like the way the whatever. |
| 1:06.0 | Now the responses are, |
| 1:08.5 | have you considered killing yourself? |
| 1:12.1 | I don't know, but have you... |
| 1:14.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:17.3 | Like... |
| 1:17.6 | Hasn't it been that way for a long time, though? |
| 1:19.4 | It has, but I just think the percentage of value I get out of the thing versus the potential harm I cause to myself, that scale has |
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