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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello Casey.
0:01.0	Hey Kevin!
0:02.0	How was your Memorial Day weekend?
0:04.0	It was wonderful.
0:05.0	I got to go to a beautiful wedding and very much enjoyed that.
0:11.0	Nice.
0:12.0	That was your Memorial Day weekend. It was good, but I feel like you have something
0:14.9	that you didn't bring up, which is that you actually had a big launch this past weekend.
0:19.8	I did a hard launch. I mean, I guess I did a hard lunch a boyfriend like once before on
0:24.1	Instagram but it was many years ago and this one I think like at this point hard
0:29.8	lunches people sort of know what they are and so a lot of like thought goes into it.
0:34.0	Well so a hard launch just so I'm clear with the latest lingo this is when you
0:37.8	announce that you have a new boyfriend on Instagram.
0:41.1	Well because if the soft launch is like, you know, if maybe you see somebody's shoulder
0:45.4	in an Instagram story and you think, well, that's a new person.
0:47.9	Like how is that, is that, is that, is my friend or are they dating that person?
0:51.5	That's a soft launch. But once there's a face and a name? That's a soft launch.
0:52.5	But once there's a face and a name, that's a hard launch.
0:54.6	I see.
0:55.4	So you debuted.
0:56.8	You hard launched your new boyfriend.
0:58.3	We had.
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