We are living in the Clear Channel internet, writes Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day…
… where everything has been so thoroughly corporatized that nothing ends up in our feeds by accident anymore. At least, not when it comes to the truly viral content. … And there are really on two outcomes here. One possibility is we just slowly accept that nothing we see online anymore is genuine and accept that social media is just a new worse version of TV now. The other, much more interesting possibility, is that people realize the internet is infinitely big and you can always just make a new version of it.
I see this most prominently on Facebook, where 90% of my feed seems to be AI slop and ads for male incontinence products.
Also: Ryan and Panic World producer Grant Irving are going to the UFC White House fight. That should be insane and fun to read.