It is April 1st, 2026, which means by most companies' standards, that is the first quarter of the year.

And I want you, as you are listening right now, to try and answer the question that we answer in this episode, which is, what are the three most important cultural things that happened in this quarter?

We need to talk about how Markiplier's independent horror film could change Hollywood. President Trump also weighed in saying the Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely

terrible, one of the worst ever. Open AI saying it's shutting down its video generation platform

Sora. Clivicular is a looks matter. Now, if you haven't heard of Fruit Love Island, it is a

unfortunately viral TikTok series. The White House's war videos

are racking up millions of views. Does Netflix have the balance sheet to boost its bid for Warner

Brothers Discovery? To the extent that over a million YouTube channels each day in December

used AI technology in creating those videos.

In a world where so much happens in a week and in a day, it's actually a really hard

question to answer.

And as guys who try and distill what happens on the internet, it's actually an important

one to answer.

And as we tried to go through this exercise of answering, what happened this quarter

on the internet?

It helped inform some thoughts around where

we think the internet and the creator economy are going. And in many ways, culture in general.

What we talk about in this episode gives us a bit of a glimpse of where the world is heading.

So in this episode, we're going to break down three trends that we wrote down as the biggest

trends that we saw in the past three months. We're also going to talk about what that means going forward. If you're listening and you feel like we missed something, feel free to reach out. You can tweet at us. You can comment on this episode. You can email us. You can write us a letter, although you don't know where we are. So don't do that. Just do one of the digital ones.

Samir, it's getting confusing.

Okay, all right. Well, here's our look back on Q1, 26.

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