Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the realignment.

Hey guys, super pumped for this discussion episode.

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Saga, let's hit the most low stakes, but also high stakes.

Relative to what we do, discussion, Twitter.

I want to start by just asking you to describe something you said to me

in a text message that really resonated.

You were excited about Elon's acquisition.

But as you saw the possibility of this bringing back to the early 2010s,

Wild West social media space.

So can you describe what that period was like,

especially because many of our listeners literally were not online in these platforms.

I don't remember what that was like.

Yeah, I mean, at most basic level, the tick-tockification effect

of the 2016 onward internet existed at a very nascent game.

So let's explain what that is.

Tick-tockification means time on platform is the only metric that matters

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