Jake paul is emblematic of this a, you now, exploittive era of the creator economy. Jame famously had ounohi an sines contracts where he was entitled to, like, twenty per cent of their income for years,. even if they quit. His group. Ai ch. It's so radioactive that i think that there seem to be a number of these really big vewtubers specifically, who are pretty dopy and do stupid things.
Jason covers Amazon's talks to acquire MGM, AT&T's spin-off of WarnerMedia to Discovery, and Dapper Labs lawsuit about the nature of NFTs (1:00). Then, NYT journalist Taylor Lorenz joins to discuss the implications of social media & its more reckless influencers (15:21), why she prefers to write for the New York Times instead of a lucrative Substack offer (48:50), and more!