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Let him cook

Some of the apps say they want to expand beyond their soap-opera cores to new formats and genres. ReelShort has been exploring shows to appeal to young men and recently made a movie based on Luigi Mangione, while DramaBox said it's looking at animation and family content.

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These salacious, bite-sized soaps have become a $1.3 billion business in the US Owl & Co. estimates short-drama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox will make $3 billion this year globally outside China, nearly triple last year.

$3 billion globally last year

$1.3 in the US

Top 20 apps reached ~10% of US mobile users, or 250 million monthly active listeners

It functions by giving you half a "show" for free and making you pay a small fee for each of the remaining chunks.

www.businessinsider.com/micro-dramas...

What is happening???

This is just SFW porn

ReelShort made $700 million last year???

This short-form vertical movie thing is not it

Someone filmed the Iranian suicide drone attack from INSIDE the Bahrain hotel.

Extraordinary footage.

(🎥 Cradle Media)

they literally did The Fountainhead to Anthropic! except that instead of an apartment building, it's a massively beneficial industrial tech similar to the perpetual motion machine from Atlas Shrugged! we're literally in an Ayn Rand story and the conservatives are 100% the villains!

The two genders of gay people: top and bottom

I shoulda put a tier between Reels and X for Facebook/LinkedIn

10000%, that's actually my usual tell that they're a reels consoomer

Its mildly interesting to me how there's both a fairly distinct hierarchy to the quality of social media political diets:

(feel free to take issue with this order)
Youtube/tiktok/twitch
Instagram shorts
X/Rumble

Yet they all produce people with bad politics

man, this reminds me: for as bad as TikTok is, Instagram Reels have 10x worse politics

Any interaction I've ever had with anyone who gets their politics from Instagram has been anthropologically stimulating to say the least

If the content model makes sense then its not just for fun, but for the fun of their base, which seems like a new, worse thing

Alice in Chains s/t isn't their best album but it is probably my most listened to of theirs tbh

"If you commit a crime you'll have your limbs chopped off" really smooths over the problems of a state that can make ontological assertions of criminality

Very Am*rican of him

oh jesus christ

The guy who got arrested for tax evasion and then made a youtube video called "They're trying to silence me"?

the CvC quote in context means that war is just the violent expression of pre-existing political dynamics, which peace time can no longer contain. Which means that if domestic and international politics is increasingly kayfabe'd, then the logic of the armed conflict that follows will be guided by it

"America wants you to spot the difference between these two pictures"

There is no difference between this and Alex Jones saying the "globalists" staged Sandy Hook btw

Egalitarian Christianity >>>>>>>>> friends/enemies Christianity

He’s entirely right

Antisemitism has already broken into the normie sphere, this is just going to embolden it

Oldhead doomscrolling

In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

this is an attempt by the Secretary of War to bankrupt Anthropic.

good luck to everyone working there