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Is Instagram Going to Lose the Arms Race?

Each of these companies has an ego or an embedded growth obligation. Instagram doesn't add a beautification filter to match TikTok in the arms race for teenagers mental health, Instagram's just going to lose the arms race. And so it's pretty simple game theory. But when you then say, okay, if I don't do the three second videos versus the 30 second videos, I'm going to lose to the guy that does the threesecond videos. These are all predictable phrases that describe a future that if you allow this to continue, I can tell you exactly what the world's going to look like.

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