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In fairness to Adam and Eve, nowhere in Leviticus are you told not to obey a talking snake.
We’re doing something we usually don’t do by giving you a peek behind the curtains. This is the stuff our beautiful supporters usually get for keeping us financially viable enough to joking around.
We definitely told our patrons this would stay exclusive, and now we’re essentially that friend who swears secrecy then immediately tells everybody your embarrassing story on the school yard.
The guilt is consuming us like a shame-based brain worm. Our only chance is to make the next secret comics so hilarious that our supporters will forgive this betrayal – comedy so sharp it could perform its own appendectomy. Please don’t revoke our kneecaps!
As we descend towards slop-based social media, where the videos are fake and the people are bots, we might be rounding up our time with algorithmically generated feeds. For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows time spent on social media over the past decade.
The key signal seems to be in young people’s usage. It looks like usage plateaued for 16- to 24-year-olds and has been inching its way down. Although usage over two and a half hours per day is still a lot. Also when broken out by continent, North American usage still looks like it’s going up.
So I guess we’ll see. Bookmarked for later.