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Accidental Tech Podcast

385: Temporal Smear

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So what is this thing?

0:01.2

There's a app or game or something where you just have to hold your finger on the screen.

0:05.1

What is the backstory to this troll thing that you posted?

0:07.9

I know almost nothing about the app, but what gathered from context is like it's a contest.

0:13.5

Kind of like memory to like trivia HQ trivia or whatever.

0:16.4

It's like a mobile game where everyone can participate.

0:18.4

It's like that, but the game is how long can you hold your finger on the screen?

0:22.0

And as you can imagine, people can do that for really long.

0:24.3

And if it's like a worldwide group thing, like if you look at some of the timers and some of

0:27.6

those videos that I showed you, I think some more at nine hours.

0:30.5

So streamers do it, right?

0:31.7

Like, oh, we're doing this thing.

0:33.0

How long can you keep your finger on the screen?

0:35.2

You're feeling it's surprisingly hard because you get lazy or you get bored after a couple

0:40.0

of hours or anyway, that's what I assume is what's happening.

0:42.6

I just liked it because of people trolling the Hedangus thing where the strategy was because

0:48.4

they're like streamers.

0:50.0

The culture of streaming is such that you have to communicate with the people in the chat

0:55.3

essentially by reading their user names and addressing them, right?

0:58.4

Because they're there for a nine hour, like the whole thing of streaming, especially if someone

1:01.6

subscribes, hey, thanks, whatever, for the two-month subscription.

1:05.4

There's things that you have to do culturally as a streamer.

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