As someone who's quit "traditional social media" but can't get away from Substack or Youtube, I would love to see how teenagers are using it. If it's just Shorts, oof that's not good. But when I was a teenager I was watching Philip DeFranco for my news and every year I find a new channel I really enjoy. There's really great long-form content!
That Indiana story is wild. The Heritage tweet basically proved that heavy-handed social media threats can backfire spectacularly when dealing with state legislators who actualy have constituents to answer to. I was talking with a friend in local politics and they said text campaigns like that used to work better a few years ago, but now people just get annoyed and dig in harder.
I just cannot believe that anyone cares about Erika Kirk as much as Weiss wants us too. I mean I guess some people did but they are already deep into the right wing sphere. Most folk I know barely knew who he was let alone want to hear all this shit from his wife.
The toddler content on YouTube is truly horrifying. I don't want to be doomer, but seeing parents with children in strollers who are just staring with glazed eyes at tablet screens really does make me wonder what's going to happen for the next generation.
I saw here on substack, an article that talked about how the digital divide 10 years ago was thought to be that wealthier folk could afford fancy gadgets and would therefore have more familiarity with technology and more educational attainment over their poor contemporaries. Now, however, the divide is that poorer parents tend to give their kids too many screens (and screen time) and that negatively impacts their educational outcomes.
I once saw Charli XCX on TV. Not very interesting, although I did wonder about the cultural origins of her last name (Basque perhaps?) I can't imagine that she has the least clue about being cool. You want to be cool? Look up Linda Ronstadt or Patti Smith. Or Miles Davis, who gave birth to it. Not Ms. XCX.
Just curious; do you understand why Bari Weiss has any credibility at all? I have been trying to figure that out for some time now.. She seems to me to be nothing more than a shameless self-promoter. I have not known her to produce a single original idea (maybe I missed something) and does not seem to have any firm commitments (except Israel and now I guess Erica Kirk, of all people.) She seems like a highly driven but vacuous intellectual chameleon. And now she runs CBS. What's the deal?
She was ahead of the curve on calling out woke excess in liberal institutions like the NYTimes. She's not particularly insightful overall, and not even the best person at talking about the era of woke excess. But she was early on that and it translated into big attention. She dramatically quit the NYTimes to found her Substack.
Also, The Free Press was pretty objectively a huge success, I think it was the single biggest Substack around before CBS bought it.
As someone who's quit "traditional social media" but can't get away from Substack or Youtube, I would love to see how teenagers are using it. If it's just Shorts, oof that's not good. But when I was a teenager I was watching Philip DeFranco for my news and every year I find a new channel I really enjoy. There's really great long-form content!
But people are probably just watching the Shorts.
Same boat, here, but I hate shorts.
I agree. Either YouTube or the creators could do a better job of having the shorts push you to full videos.
The heirarchy of needs pyramid graphic is wrong, if posting is more important than food/sex, it should be at the bottom of the pyramid not the top.
That Indiana story is wild. The Heritage tweet basically proved that heavy-handed social media threats can backfire spectacularly when dealing with state legislators who actualy have constituents to answer to. I was talking with a friend in local politics and they said text campaigns like that used to work better a few years ago, but now people just get annoyed and dig in harder.
I just cannot believe that anyone cares about Erika Kirk as much as Weiss wants us too. I mean I guess some people did but they are already deep into the right wing sphere. Most folk I know barely knew who he was let alone want to hear all this shit from his wife.
The toddler content on YouTube is truly horrifying. I don't want to be doomer, but seeing parents with children in strollers who are just staring with glazed eyes at tablet screens really does make me wonder what's going to happen for the next generation.
I saw here on substack, an article that talked about how the digital divide 10 years ago was thought to be that wealthier folk could afford fancy gadgets and would therefore have more familiarity with technology and more educational attainment over their poor contemporaries. Now, however, the divide is that poorer parents tend to give their kids too many screens (and screen time) and that negatively impacts their educational outcomes.
Agreed 100%. Higher SES parents are keeping their kids off screens.
I once saw Charli XCX on TV. Not very interesting, although I did wonder about the cultural origins of her last name (Basque perhaps?) I can't imagine that she has the least clue about being cool. You want to be cool? Look up Linda Ronstadt or Patti Smith. Or Miles Davis, who gave birth to it. Not Ms. XCX.
Just curious; do you understand why Bari Weiss has any credibility at all? I have been trying to figure that out for some time now.. She seems to me to be nothing more than a shameless self-promoter. I have not known her to produce a single original idea (maybe I missed something) and does not seem to have any firm commitments (except Israel and now I guess Erica Kirk, of all people.) She seems like a highly driven but vacuous intellectual chameleon. And now she runs CBS. What's the deal?
She was ahead of the curve on calling out woke excess in liberal institutions like the NYTimes. She's not particularly insightful overall, and not even the best person at talking about the era of woke excess. But she was early on that and it translated into big attention. She dramatically quit the NYTimes to found her Substack.
Also, The Free Press was pretty objectively a huge success, I think it was the single biggest Substack around before CBS bought it.