AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min chapter
Did Clickbait Kill Buzzfeed and the Digital Media Era?
Offline with Jon Favreau
The New Global Digital Culture
This was essentially like a fun and harmless piece of popular culture that began when a woman goes to a wedding. And so she sends a tumbler message to BuzzFeed to say, hey, can you sort this out for us? And the woman who's running our social media takes a look at it and everyone's gathered around her computer arguing about it. Like two thirds of people saw it one way, one third the other. People like to argue about it, all those Facebook mechanisms that like feed off division loved it. But I do think- There are corners of the internet where Reddit remains a very interesting counter example to everything else that happened on social media.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode