People do not realize that industries are MADE with communications

— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn)

Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022

a close friend of mine works in the music industry, so I have takes on music streaming 🧵Spotify has never turned a profit in any year of its existence, this means Spotify's shareholders are already subsidizing artists.streaming services saved the industry from literal /1 https://t.co/CaSYct4TS6— Ariele 🌐🏗️ (@weatherdai) March 10, 2024

I do not understand how Hollywood apparently learned nothing (nothing!) from the huge vast insane popularity of Knives Out, a solid film that would have just been a normal film twenty years ago https://t.co/NFc6ciJvOo— Amber Sparks (@ambernoelle) June 19, 2023

The previous Sony Interactive CEO comments on the game industry are proving to be very true (from 2020) https://t.co/eCEp5H51HV pic.twitter.com/xNyzt6i403— Alex Strook 🐁🍃 (@AlexStrook) June 13, 2023

Streaming platforms are actively making themselves worse because they have hit the max amount of customers they'll get and their shareholders want infinite growth which isn't possible so in the short term they are gutting themselves to save money by removing shows to avoid— Fletcher (@marshonstupi) May 24, 2023

people were still buying music and the mp3 ecosystem that apple’s ipod marketing was driving millions of people to embrace was an incredible promo platform for indie stuff. everyone was going for it because success meant something: you could do 33k first week on warp. not anymore https://t.co/rE1pS46TP3— jaime brooks ☭ (@elite_gz) May 23, 2023

(2/5) Today, I got to publish what I see as the big picture around that story. 🖼️ It's about an entire movement quietly taking off in tech & VC circles of people who believe it is their DUTY to fill the earth with their genius children... to save humanity.https://t.co/fty0lhW6f9— Julia Black (@mjnblack) November 17, 2022

"They're coming for every second of your life" –@boburnham pic.twitter.com/RhkYrDZbxR— Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt) November 2, 2022

slowly reading through some of the internal documents that oil executives were forced to turn over to congressional investigators and the honesty on display here is wild 1/— Ajit Niranjan (@NiranjanAjit) September 15, 2022

“I think about how The Iron Giant was a MASSIVE flop at the box office, but still became a household name because DVD sales shot up after repeat airings on Cartoon Network. That's never happening again.”

This is more or less what my final project is about… Facebook killed the blog and it has killed the ownership of our digital archives with it https://t.co/HTcwRhho1u— Lara Mendonça (@laraisuncool) July 25, 2022

“Capitalism at work: twitter would be better off without Musk, but the twitter board has to pursue this owner.”