Enshit*ification
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4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Enshit*ification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to citation needed. |
| 0:24.4 | The podcast where we choose the subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia, |
| 0:28.0 | and pretend we're experts. |
| 0:29.2 | Because this is the internet? |
| 0:30.3 | And that's how it works now. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Eli Bosnick and I'll be the pre-roll auto ads to this feed drop mini trailer tonight, |
| 0:36.4 | but I'll need some dynamically |
| 0:38.1 | placed co-hosts. First up, two men who remember when auto ads were about buying a vehicle, |
| 0:43.6 | Cecil and Noah. |
| 0:45.1 | Get into the zone. Yeah, I also remember I'm trying to make me come by rolling a ball bearing |
| 0:51.5 | around Alexis, Eli. It's not as good as you're making it sound, man. And it worked. It did work. I'm not saying it didn't work. My God, that was a sexy ball bearing. And also joining us tonight, two men sew in it for the money. The feeling is reciprocal. Heath and Tom. Okay, I just, I actually really like factor meals. |
| 1:11.2 | I really like this. |
| 1:12.2 | They're chilly. |
| 1:13.0 | It's great. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.2 | So the money is only in it for me, too. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm very confused. |
| 1:19.2 | Well, compensated, but confused. |
| 1:20.8 | Just jokes. |
| 1:21.8 | Very well. |
| 1:22.8 | Before we begin tonight, I'd like to take a moment to thank our patrons. |
| 1:25.9 | Patrons, without you to remind us that what we already |
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