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The most wild thing, to me, is how effectively it has been taken over by scam artists. The other day I tuned into a 'startup pitch' show where the premise is you pitch your company idea to an 'investor'. Unfortunately in practice the investor applauds your idea, and then claims he will 'invest' engineering time worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he needs you to 'prove you are serious' by investing tens of thousands of dollars of your own money.

I'm sure after putting up the cash you are handed some janky app worth nothing close to what you paid, much less his supposed investment. While maybe not being illegal, it was incredibly predatory. The 'entrepreneurs' weren't being asked the most basic questions about their business, and were clearly not financially in a place to invest the money he was demanding. Rather than helping them achieve an entrepreneurial dream, he is sucking up the limited money they have (perhaps even inviting them to take on debt) without any real hope of success.

It seems like every channel on Clubhouse is some version of exploitation, whether it's about crypto, your love life, or your money. I don't know how I would moderate that away if I was them, but it seems like the time to do it was several months ago, and now might be too late.

This is how I remember most of the Clubhouse content during the initial popularity.

There were exceptions such as famous VCs, authors, and tech people doing Q&A, but everything else felt like content marketers, online course sellers, and crypto scammers having a field day with their sudden access to a lot of bored and curious people.

Outside of a few pre-scheduled and planned Clubhouse events, I never actually found anything organically interesting on the platform.

Don’t forget all the “Life Coaches”

My life coach works at Chilli's, I can go see them any time between 3 and 7 on weekdays. I can put in a word if anybody wants to respond below. Blue Cross is showing some resistance, but I think they'll come around.

Update: I spoke with Tyler, he says our new meeting place is TGI Fridays but that you're all welcome. He asks that groups of 8 or more call ahead.

Because I didn't clearly remember the character's name in Fight Club, this made me initially think of kind of a superposition of Brad Pitt as Tyler in Fight Club and as Chad the personal trainer in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_After_Reading.

"Pitt...said when he was shown the script, he told the Coens he did not know how to play the part because the character was such an idiot: "There was a pause, and then Joel goes...'You'll be fine'."

so basically the internet

No, the traditional internet required that you be literate, be able to write, have an IQ > 45.

Already we saw sites like Medium attract lower quality content than blogs that require a certain amount of intelligence to set up.

Audio and video communication online is something Marshall McLuhan warned you about: take a look at TikTok if you don't believe me.

Lol you're so full of yourself.

> the traditional internet required that you be literate, be able to write, have an IQ > 45.

No it didn't. The internet required you to know how to setup a server and hosting. If you knew how, you could serve the most illiterate, badly thought out crap ever, and nobody would stop you.

You think that you needed to be litterate, because you've confirmation-biased yourself into thinking that you were 'special'/'gifted' for having read some nginx-manuals and setup your own blog. And now that everybody has access to the thing that made you feel 'special' you act childish and try to degrade that achievement of others.

"yeah you write for your own blog, but did you use MEDIUM while doing it? What a poser! If you're a real writer, like ME, you'd host your own blog in the 90s".

> Already we saw sites like Medium attract lower quality content than blogs that require a certain amount of intelligence to set up.

Who made you the arbiter of quality content? Did you ever self-reflect and realize that it might not be about quality, but rather your personal preference?

Are you too stupid to see that people might not share your views at all? That what they think is quality-content you might think is shit? And that what you think is quality-content others might think is shit?

Lol.

1. Back in the 90’s it was Apache, not NGINX. 2. Cool kids today make a blog w/ Jamstack and don’t mess w/ NGINX. 3. People who blog on medium seem to be more hung up on getting a domain name than anything else (either $10 a year is not worth it or paying $10 a year means you’ve been ‘canceled’ by big tech or something…)

The ignorance of those people is not so much technical but in the domain of marketing and branding. Like ‘data scientists’ who think they are too good to run unit tests or type ‘git commit’ they think being high status is letting other people do things for you, so in their bizzaro world being on medium makes you look like a somebody and having your own domain makes you a nerd, a tool or something like that.

Thank God people who won’t register a domain name won’t figure out how to make a crypto wallet so they’ll always be looking from the outside in, wishing they had a bored ape of their own.

I remember entering a channel once that was just a bunch of “Queens” with hot avatars sitting at the top, and the host who was some dude with a smooth big black guy voice would talk with the audience and ask people “which of these queens would you like to sponsor?” and people would donate money to them or whatever. And the queens would also talk a bit if they felt like it. God it was stupid, one of the last channels I checked out before dropping this app completely.

Somebody got sick of saying “if I had a nickle for every time somebody had some great idea for an app” and decided to go out there and get the nickle.

There's a company that does something very similar a few floors up in our office building. The website is atrocious,the 'tech' is so absurd that it could win absurd of a month award. Yet, the most expensive cars, with the company logo, some shady links with Russia and etc. It's a joke. I feel bad for people who fall for it.

clubhouse is full of VCs and angels. wannabe celebrities.

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