Silicon Valley's Social App and Teen Obsession

Many things in modernity are brain dead, but I can’t think of anything worse than the short form dystopias of TikTok and Instagram. They’re materially making people dumber, breeding addict behavior (particularly in the young) and ultimately ruining the lives of normies. It’s depressing to think about the countless kids who might have started garage... See more

“In the tech world, people crash and burn quickly, but the idea of these controlled micro-communities is something that will persist,” Eichhorn says.

First off, new social platforms emerge every decade. With teens driving culture and telling us adults what’s “cool,” it's only a matter of time before something new emerges that we never saw coming.