Dude, who even knows.

21st April 2022

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Over a decade or so ago I realized that the internet had delinked elements of the info-ideological ecosystem, and that under conditions of channel abundance getting as big a direct audience as possible was no longer as equivalent to climbing as far upstream as possible, and it’s the latter that’s the real target


Concepts of “clout” and “influencers” strike me as gesturing at this from within frameworks and metrics that still reify hierarchical broadcast-era celebrity

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