This is exactly why I'm just writing about Pixar - it's something my readers can actually trust me on. I'm not suddenly going to pretend I know what I'm talking about with regards to "Addison Rae"
i’m behind on reading everyone’s substack posts but this is also why i like yours. no one else is doing this and you have unique insight about it because you care. talking about addison rae because everyone is talking about it is like… the world has rules and you don’t seemingly know anything about her— that’s my job!
Thank you! Yeah while there are ways I plan on pushing myself out of my comfort zone, the whole point of a newsletter is not feeling like I *have* to cover the news of the day - the further I get from what's even happening right now the better! But there will be daily updates from me on Death Stranding 2.
I have no issue with short form content and ultimately dont care who does or doesnt offer it, but the tiktokification of everything is just kinda pointless. Tiktok made a really good version of tiktok, mostly because they got a huge number of people to start using it at a moment in time, and now everyone wants to make a much worse version of tiktok
i completely agree with this, but i also think instagram is offering short-form-video integration with a brand or image that tiktok can't. when reels are attached to someone's far-more-established instagram persona, they go a lot further in different ways, even if they aren't as likely to be seen or make money. adding short form video a la youtube shorts, though, isn't enough - which is something i fear will happen on substack. it has to build its own form of integration with the videos (i suspect on substack a good mode for that would be particular "live" functionalities) to not be lame, but it also, simply, has to have videos if it wants to be social media, at all
This is why I only post about things that I'm insanely confident about, like myself and the Nazis. I worked with a proper editor once on Substack and it was awesome. It made me really miss proper writing! And honestly I agree about the short-form video stuff. I don't like the stuff, and it makes me irritable and distracted, but videos are an essential part of culture and media at this point. I watch *so much* youtube, so I'm not going to be a hypocrite and bitch and moan about a 10 second clip. I actually think more of these long-form writers could benefit from watching more videos >:)
definitely. a big part of my whole thing is that posts/books/articles/canon/new stuff are all of equal import to have a balance, un-hysteric, materialist perspective. idk how you can be a culture writer and not be running tiktok
Yes!!! like i legitimately feel like I learn quite a bit more about culture (especially the state of men) on youtube & podcasts than I do in any longform writing. People want to believe that they're above those forms, but if they're actually interested in culture then they should be on these apps and going where the people are. I just can't get on tiktok because i will probably get addicted and depressed. also there is something too depressing to me about the image of a 31 year old man just scrolling alone on tiktok but maybe i need to get over that
i don't think that's depressing, at all. i'm basically the same age and my mom is like 70 and we send each other tiktoks like moms and kids used to send each other facebook memes. there is something about it being a whole new app with a whole new algorithm that makes it feel completely divorced from the ecosystem we've been embedded within for well over a decade, but my fyp is mostly dogs or some woman being like, "this is how i take care of my parrot" or "this is where i buy sandwiches in osaka." it's really more like youtube than it is like instagram, and over the years it's been popular the videos have gotten up to 10 minutes long, most of them at least over 3. i spend too much time on there because it doesn't require a "making a choice" factor like putting on a movie does, and sometimes when i'm sad that's the first mental faculty to go. but i learn stuff about the world on there, way more than i would by scrolling twitter or even, like, a legacy publication's website
once a month I get an insane email about having a typo in something
most of the time i'm like how did you catch that. you're not supposed to be looking at these that closely
This is exactly why I'm just writing about Pixar - it's something my readers can actually trust me on. I'm not suddenly going to pretend I know what I'm talking about with regards to "Addison Rae"
i’m behind on reading everyone’s substack posts but this is also why i like yours. no one else is doing this and you have unique insight about it because you care. talking about addison rae because everyone is talking about it is like… the world has rules and you don’t seemingly know anything about her— that’s my job!
Thank you! Yeah while there are ways I plan on pushing myself out of my comfort zone, the whole point of a newsletter is not feeling like I *have* to cover the news of the day - the further I get from what's even happening right now the better! But there will be daily updates from me on Death Stranding 2.
thank god 🙏
Like other social medias before it, even lots of people with a platform can be really bad at posting.
I’m still waiting for Kendall to apologize for that weird ballet video.
if i were a kardashian i would never apologize for anything
I have no issue with short form content and ultimately dont care who does or doesnt offer it, but the tiktokification of everything is just kinda pointless. Tiktok made a really good version of tiktok, mostly because they got a huge number of people to start using it at a moment in time, and now everyone wants to make a much worse version of tiktok
i completely agree with this, but i also think instagram is offering short-form-video integration with a brand or image that tiktok can't. when reels are attached to someone's far-more-established instagram persona, they go a lot further in different ways, even if they aren't as likely to be seen or make money. adding short form video a la youtube shorts, though, isn't enough - which is something i fear will happen on substack. it has to build its own form of integration with the videos (i suspect on substack a good mode for that would be particular "live" functionalities) to not be lame, but it also, simply, has to have videos if it wants to be social media, at all
This is why I only post about things that I'm insanely confident about, like myself and the Nazis. I worked with a proper editor once on Substack and it was awesome. It made me really miss proper writing! And honestly I agree about the short-form video stuff. I don't like the stuff, and it makes me irritable and distracted, but videos are an essential part of culture and media at this point. I watch *so much* youtube, so I'm not going to be a hypocrite and bitch and moan about a 10 second clip. I actually think more of these long-form writers could benefit from watching more videos >:)
definitely. a big part of my whole thing is that posts/books/articles/canon/new stuff are all of equal import to have a balance, un-hysteric, materialist perspective. idk how you can be a culture writer and not be running tiktok
Yes!!! like i legitimately feel like I learn quite a bit more about culture (especially the state of men) on youtube & podcasts than I do in any longform writing. People want to believe that they're above those forms, but if they're actually interested in culture then they should be on these apps and going where the people are. I just can't get on tiktok because i will probably get addicted and depressed. also there is something too depressing to me about the image of a 31 year old man just scrolling alone on tiktok but maybe i need to get over that
i don't think that's depressing, at all. i'm basically the same age and my mom is like 70 and we send each other tiktoks like moms and kids used to send each other facebook memes. there is something about it being a whole new app with a whole new algorithm that makes it feel completely divorced from the ecosystem we've been embedded within for well over a decade, but my fyp is mostly dogs or some woman being like, "this is how i take care of my parrot" or "this is where i buy sandwiches in osaka." it's really more like youtube than it is like instagram, and over the years it's been popular the videos have gotten up to 10 minutes long, most of them at least over 3. i spend too much time on there because it doesn't require a "making a choice" factor like putting on a movie does, and sometimes when i'm sad that's the first mental faculty to go. but i learn stuff about the world on there, way more than i would by scrolling twitter or even, like, a legacy publication's website