User Mag

Chinese dreamcore, Claudefishing, swipeflation, Clavicular's Israel trip, humanoid robot fingers, a tokenpocalypse, the Pod Save patriarchy, why the trillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta doesn’t add up

+ Corporate girlies, X psychosis, UGC mania, a tech swag fashion show, Minionese Idol, Machinic Taste, the secret history of Polymarket, and how VidCon became a cancelled YouTuber apology tour

Watch now | NYT's Ryan Mac joins me to break down Peter Thiel's Argentina obsession, discuss the secret cult, and more.

+ Inside tea on Peter Thiel’s secret society, doom trolling, Edikted, Streamer U mania, dopamine sites, Whoa Vicky's literary era, GR00T, Footy Addicts, and a Polymarket podcast

On Pump Fun GO you can get paid to post election fraud conspiracies and more.

Lonliness influencers, death of YouTube face, Airbnb robot cleaners, Suno addicts, George Santos Kalshi crimes, VidConization of Hollywood, why Alex Hormozi publishes 250 videos a day to social media

The influencer political advertising boom is poisoning democracy.

Political content creators are seeking to build their brands through collabbing with candidates, often without proper disclosure.

+ Waymo invasions, WordleTV, Halupedia, ballmaxxing, rogue AI radio, NYC roulette, Clav's List, YouTube whisperers, Elon's top reply guy, and another study finds zero benefits from smartphone bans

+ 'Screenagers', Bottom G, Labububot, armpods, pew-tubers, Richard Dawkins' AI gf, ASMR subliminals, luxury micro dramas, young Wikipedians, The Clippening, & the rise of the young founder-influencer

A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.

I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all.

+ Bezos’s private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, China’s ‘dark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big tech’s ‘tobacco moment’ isn’t what it seems

Anthropic girlypop dinners, new Costco Guys, BuzzBallz summer, Gen Z's silent scream, FBI aura farming, Elon Musk's TikTok, Mahjong mania, SantaCon fraud, andthe case against social media "addiction"

+ Boy kibble, cyberdecks, Bierberchella, AI Michael Jackson babies, peptides overtake pickleball, dating app whimsey, deep runs, an AI storefront, YouTubers vs Apple, Claude Code whips and fairy wands

+ NeeDoh squishies, Twitch for pets, Waymo influencer merch, OpenClaw crashouts, Alix Earle's skincare blowout, smut book clubs, Surf social, AI's millennial cringe problem, and Sam Altman tea

+ YouTube Shorts rizz party, Clavicular's Club Stream, heat islands, MrBeast's Japan pivot, Costco's chocolate bunny, Twitch streaming as a dog, and the doomed project to cancel Hasan Piker

+ LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a KitKat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and against the smartphone theory of everything

AI influencer awards season, vaping squirrels, RIP Sora, bestie-fication of media, peak MrBeast, the pop diva extinction, Zuckerberg's claw, a cowgorithm, Fortnite brain rot, LinkedIn “builder” plague

+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, ‘porn addiction’ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet