An Elegy To Snark
Every social media platform prizes something different. With Instagram, it’s aesthetics. On TikTok, it’s theatre-kid energy. And with Twitter, it was information and wit, conveyed via the written word.
Jonathan Goldsbie is very good at Twitter. But Twitter is no longer Twitter.
Every platform gradually withers — but since Elon Musk purchased it, the site’s ongoing transformation into the very worst version of itself has been by design.
So what’s a person like Goldsbie to do, when confronted with the prospect of terminal, destructive decline? What happens when X spots a mark?
Host: Jesse Brown…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.