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Internet trends by day. Also internet trends by night. Trends Insights Lead @ YouTube Mastodon @[email protected] but relatively quiet On Twitter @earnestp. I've been silent there for almost a year.
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I wonder whether Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian are thinking about the real corrosive influence on link-sharing communities: companies. Once a site becomes a sure source of traffic, companies immediately dream of ways to exploit it.…

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How did Bubble Boy never become a cult classic?

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My entire life, I’ve heard “markets crave certainty.” If that’s the case, though, how do you explain the markets during this administration?

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I highly recommend this reconsideration of algorithmic recommendation systems. I love how it avoids the knee-jerk “algorithms are bad” stance https://dynomight.substack.com/p/ranking

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I am going to start a Hackerscore aesthetic based on 1995’s Hackers, which I just learned is now officially on YouTube for free. https://youtu.be/5T_CqqjOPDc

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I am interested in whatever this show was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKeQ_-gwFvs

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Do you ever think about the fact that price of home release of movies, music, and video games have remained relatively stable for decades? It reminds me of Coca Cola being 5 cents for about 50 years.

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I was making some updates to my site today and finally removed my old Facebook & Twitter/X social links. End of an era.

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Now that Surf exists, it makes me wish everyone were on the Fediverse just for my convenience of being able to reply in-app. I highly recommend this app https://about.flipboard.com/press/announcing-surf-the-first-browser-for-the-open-social-web/

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I just accidentally shared a nod “hello” with someone in this office that I DEFINITELY don’t know. I guess I’m locked into nodding to this person for the rest of my life, now.

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I’ve never clicked “Accept” when a website has requested to send notifications through the browser. What kind of notifications are these sites sending? What does Semafor need to notify me of?

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The anniversary of X's original content announcement passed without anyone remembering it ever existed

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My generation’s version of “there were only three TV channels when I was a kid” will be “there were only four flavors of chips when I was a kid”

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I guess I finally have to come back here now that @clairepettie.bsky.social has decided to come here.

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I was in my 5th year of college, living in a house with my best friend and little brother, and working in a video store. I was a film & video studies major with dreams of writing sitcoms, and I was producing funny content for OU's students on the internet. I bicycled everywhere.

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@cutcafe.bsky.social Just wanted to tell you that I found your video on Sprunki to be quite helpful.

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Did you notice that the official upload of Alicia Keys's Super Bowl performance had been altered from the original broadcast? If the original performance becomes "lost media," there's a whole community out there that will try to recover it. earnestpettie.com/essays/how-c...

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The Usher performance was like the ads. Well-executed but generally unmemorable with no real surprises.

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This week's newsletter is on the impact of developing parasocial relationships with billionaires. earnestpettie.com/essays/2024-...

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Please subscribe to my newsletter for weekly thoughts on internet and culture. Or is it internet culture? I'll figure it out along the way. earnestpettie.com/newsletter

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We are going to remember this era forever, championship or not. #Clippers

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Every platform goes through this phase in search of "legitimacy" to lure ad dollars from TV. Only one of them embraces the most toxic aspect of its platform and asks advertisers to GFY.

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In today's media landscape, the popularity of a song is often less about a song speaking to you and more about a song speaking for you. I take a closer look at that phenomenon in this week's newsletter. earnestpettie.com/b/85C

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A Melrose Place art prank led me back to the first place I encountered the concept of viral media and thoughts on today's media landscape. earnestpettie.com/essays/melro...

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