Dr. Laura Robinson on X: "I think a huge part of the draw of tradwife content is that it markets the idea that we actually don't need social services, schools, or a government because everyone has an endless possibility of bootstrapping inside them. Tradwife content usually deliberately obscures or" / X
Trumpcoin and TikTok
the attention economy and the meme economy
Each piece makes all other pieces more powerful! It’s really a masterclass in the Art of the Deal.
It’s not just the money. It's the power! It’s attention through the memecoin and Tiktok, political power with the inauguration and US presidency, and money through the tech CEO alignment. It’s all perfectly situated and absolutely explosive at the present moment, and that’s a machine that is extraordinarily valuable.
Political Position ➝ Market Threats ➝ Token Value ➝ More Control ➝ Repeat.
Political Position Creates Leverage: If you can threaten to ban platforms (or people or enact sweeping tariffs, you have immediate leverage. If you do it through executive orders and ignore checks and balances, there is no traditional regulatory process needed. The threats alone move markets and create opportunities through immediate power projection.
Threats Create Market Opportunity: The markets are going to be very reactive to any political signals, and any sort of threat becomes a negotiation tool. All sorts of opportunities come from that.
Market Moves Amplify Token Power: You could argue that political action could drive Trumpcoin price, and a higher token price could mean more political influence and bigger political moves, because money is very much power.
Token Wealth Enables More Control: You could use Trumpcoin money to buy 50% of TikTok and use that platform to capture more attention, driving Trumpcoin price even higher (who knows if this will happen, but anything is in the realm of possibility). Infrastructure control expands. The power base solidifies. The attention distribution, the narrative shaping, the reality perception are all tremendously powerful.
This moment in time is quite unique because of:
The speed at which wealth was created (36 hours to $70b+)
The scale (if it goes to $2,100 a share it will surpass the value of bitcoin)
The source (direct political influence conversion!)
The integration (platform threats + token launch + power)
This is compound power, not just compound interest, and I think all of this happening at the same time as the TikTok ban is important.
The basic formula is attention → improvement → value → compound. Trumpcoin doesn’t bother with those middle steps. Its process is simple:
Capture attention.
Convert directly into token value.
The attention is the product. The narrative is the value.
This is the birth of the Attention Singularity, where power, narrative, and wealth merge into one self-reinforcing system.
Think of the Attention Singularity like a black hole, but instead of gravity, it's attention that becomes so powerful it warps reality itself. We're watching the birth of a system where attention directly creates wealth (like $60B from Trumpcoin in 36 hours), wealth instantly enables power (potential TikTok acquisition), power captures more attention (platform control), and each cycle gets faster and stronger than the last.
Traditional limits like physical constraints, geographic boundaries, or institutional checks stop mattering because digital attention moves instantly and globally, while narrative overpowers physical reality. Once this feedback loop starts, it's self-reinforcing: attention creates wealth, wealth enables power, power shapes perceived reality, and reality drives more attention.
Real production could become secondary to narrative production - why bother with things like cash flow when all economic activity can simply be attention harvesting?
The more we treat things with no economic output as valuable, the less we'll actually produce.
Attention Harvesters: Create wealth through narrative and accumulate power rapidly wth minimal physical constraints
Real World Maintainers: The people who keep society functioning and deal with physical constraints. These people essential but undervalued.
As more capital and talent flow to attention-based ventures, essential infrastructure could become neglected and society could become more fragile. I am in LA with these fires, and my goodness, we need people who can be in the real world and fix burned down homes and maintain infrastructure and nurse communities back to health.
For investors: Memecoins like Trumpcoin show the growing dominance of speculative assets. If you’re an investor, this signals a shift: attention is now a measurable driver of market value. You should probably have a memecoin strategy, if that’s of interest. Position yourself accordingly.
For consumers: The rise of platforms and tokens driven by narrative suggests that your attention is more valuable than ever. Be mindful of how you spend it as every click and view reinforces this economy
She was at Luigi Mangione’s court yday & shes exposing the media for lying that it was full of emotional women. Its disgusting that theyre trying to push a narrative that hes only popular cus women find him good looking. Men & women supported him b4 finding out wat he looked like
— yup | (@brvttie)
Calling it now.
You’re going to see people putting small cracks or lines in their ads.. the engagement is wild with comments.
(I was personally losing my shit)
— Nick Shackelford 🦾 (@iamshackelford)
Saw mainstream news coverage about the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare on TikTok and I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them
— Tobita Chow (@tobitac)
Anora first act:
day in the life of a chicago tiktok supercut making fun of other tiktoks
horrific
— mother earth 🫒 (@feminterrupted)
i think of this himalayas fancam at least once a week
— 𝗴𝗲𝗺 (@gemmypuss)
The iphone BTS of a photo shoot or video shoot is now just as important for social media as the end result.
One of the best viral formats that works just as well for creatives and agencies as it does for brands is
- showing an iphone behind the scenes clip from a shoot to get…
— Oren John (@orenmeetsworld)
(1) Moaning Myrtle 🫦 on X: "You know how easy it is to say “hey can we go do this AND THEN go out to eat?” Not gon lie, yall suck at this" / X
separate posts from buffsiah and crunchiethicc that people think are related about trivial dating culture gripes
“The thesis is solid. Online fandom is worthy of studying as a gateway into how online platforms can radicalize young people” —
Fandom culture has started so much of what has bled into general culture online and snooty-tootie types will continue to find themselves…
— Jules Terpak (@julesterpak)
✨ Mikey ✨ on X: "the top 100 editor at apple music https://t.co/GV7Le6jjcc" / X
Viral street interview where a girl is going through a list of pop stars and not having any clear allegiance to anyone, humorously abandoning stars she expresses loyalty too when faced with another pop star and having inconsistent reasoning
— shiv roy's bob (@stellamilfburn)
Shiv Roy from Succession impersonation fan edit
TikTok’s 3 strategic comms mistakes with this video:
1) LITERALLY DOING THIS 👀The TikTok team was so concerned with getting the words exactly right that they had the CEO read from a script. But trust is won or lost through body language — not words — and the script messed up… — Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey)
K. Thor Jensen 🐀🐀 on Twitter / X
Fetish content disguised as tailoring video
Rachel Karten on Twitter / X
noticing a lot of brands utilizing a specific intro style on tiktok that i am calling “shock and sell”. start with a shocking viral clip and transition into a hard sell. examples here from reformation and aeropress. pic.twitter.com/MJ0R7u6Pam— Rachel Karten (@milkkarten) April 16, 2024
molson 🧠⚙️ on Twitter / X
The 7 major ways China has changed between 2019 and 2024 pic.twitter.com/wvB7vwZqIM— molson 🧠⚙️ (@Molson_Hart) March 24, 2024
Science girl on Twitter / X
Teapot quality comparison
crap on Twitter / X
Mocking day in the life TikTok edits with. Really long drawn out consumerist day
Eize Basa on Twitter / X
Multilevel urban planning in china
TCL USA on TikTok
tv ad that uses another video at the start to grab attention
Ivy Alive on TikTok
This is the workflow I’ve settled on as being the most fun way for me to work on art! Would you try this method? ✨ #arttips #procreatetutorial #artstepbystep
Jules Terpak on X: "With the entire Universal Music catalog being removed from TikTok, this is an urgent matter for the platform — much of their competitive advantage is being taken away No doubt that TikTok is about to go full force into becoming more YouTube-like. Last week, they sent out a…" / X
TikTok transitioning to a horizontal scrolling feed
Holekage of the Hidden Bussy Village on Twitter / X
I need more bullets French npc military man
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TikTok isn't misleading the youth, mainstream media is misleading the old. pic.twitter.com/DRbfXjv6xN— onagapnotsew (@westonpagano) December 21, 2023
lindsay on Twitter / X
Chiropractor for dogs
Massimo on Twitter / X
city based on hilly ground → shared floors between buildings of different heights
🤙🏼 on Twitter
Britney Spears knives knife dance meme photoshopped into action movie scene deflecting billets from guns
Philton 🏱︎ on Twitter
Heels running away from Halloween’s Michael who is also in heels, they strut-run in the parking garage
beautiful woman on Twitter
Balkan shops at 8 am two female DJs in jackets jamming really hard pretending round items are DJ dials equipment