Everything Looks The Same
exploring the endless forces luring towards conformity and sameness
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Everything Looks The Same
Imagine working at Meta and making $1m/year in total comp as a product manager and your entire job is to just copy and paste things from other apps.
That’s the dream
Rival products (burgers, pop songs, political parties) tend to grow more alike over time, because creators copy more successful rivals to replicate their success and steal their customers/audiences.
Paradoxically, this increases the value of being different.
Paradoxically, this increases the value of being different.
Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles
this examples why tiktok, spotify, instagram, and twitter all start to look the same - pivot to video, stories, etc…
anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic.
social media is robotic, formulaic. everything looks the same. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
what a computer can never reproduce is organic human emotion. it cannot recreate authenticity.
-paraphrased from Mango Street
Empire of Same ❧ Current Affairs
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Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?