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Stop Feeling Helpless About AI
+ '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 pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me
A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.
How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest âwritersâ on Substack arenât writing at all.
The Girlboss-ification of AI w/ Kat Tenbarge
+ Bezosâs private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, Chinaâs âdark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big techâs âtobacco momentâ isnât what it seems
Influencers Are Replacing Themselves With AI Clones
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"
Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
+ 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
They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
+ 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
Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ 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
The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ 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
The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Havenât Noticed)
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 âbuilderâ plague
The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, âporn addictionâ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet
How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harryâs Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, and secret billionaire typing patterns
You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms
+ AI Amish influencers, baby gut health, Kai Trump's Erewhon vlog, bed rotting for art, the Substack book, MrBeast banking, Quittr, a new Ellison, Ben Affleck's AI startup, Heated Rivalry fanfic drama
How Epstein Warped the Entire Internet
Mr. Beast Islam, Roblox threesoms, the Staples Baddie, Parisian slop bowls, phone away from phone, AI pervert glasses, TX primary influencer wars, and prediction markets' billionaire founders feud
'Situation Monitoring' Products Are Flooding The Web
+ Yapper ads, the Most Evil Gay Guy, pop culture OpenClaw, Gucci runway texts, Jim Carry conspiracies, #sendBaron, Zuck's $170M mansion, Opensource Palantir, and how the AIs kill
ICEâs Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7
+ PewDiePieAI, sustainable abundance, MAGA influencers go solar, disappearing summer break, YT's newest teen sensation, giving birth on livestream, a plan to bathe entire cities in sunlight from space
Why The Internet Is Broken
+ Ai;dr, r/lanadelrey drama, total boomer luxury communism, American Girl novels, Benny Blanco livestreamer, Nicki Minaj bot farms, Slxughter, POLITICO's pink slime, and a YouTuber's fake ICE tip line
Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
+ Burnout feminism, slop surgery, sleepcations, serftok, Meta's celeb wrangler -> OpenAI, American Girl Ozempic, chatbot cafes, Tinder voting, 13 yr old skincare CEO, how crying girls will make u rich
They're Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It
+ Beast Banking, Clav's mogshot, a brainrot Reels slam poet, X's fake cancer cure problem, Polymarket Portal feet pics, AI Netflix, analog YouTube, Roblox ICE raids, and giving birth on Discord
The Rise and Fall of Livestream Fail
+ Moltbook mania, Minecraft protests, wellness anarchists, travelscrimping, GlamBOT controversy, Tinder for clankers, French Zohran, and escaping a Chinese Mafia crypto slavery scheme
Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?
+ Slopagandists, WannaBeasts, r/massivecock vs ICE, America's Kill Line, peptide pushers, Boy Throb, viral armpitting, a new class of pro-Democrat dark money creators, and is Josh the new Karen?
Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham
A Dramageddon drag show, ManyVids AI psychosis, the far right's new goth girl, 13 yr old AI founders, UpScrolled > TikTok, Rumble Shorts, IRL Heated Rivalry, and Tay Zonday takes on ICE.
The New Satanic Panic Is Here
+ Admin nights, Steal A Brainrot, GAP's AI orb, IG for fishing, influencer peptides, a16z's pro-AI creator class, and one man's journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trumpâs America
2016 Nostalgia Slop Is Taking Over
+ Contentmaxxing, soft eugenics, Heated Rivarly lookalikes, a Reddit mod meltdown, AI relationship dealbreakers, IG's force friendship, Pentagon Pokémon, & how dumb phone owners have lost their minds
Ashley St Clair on trans rights, immigration, Elon and more
+ Liquid content, choppelgangers, influencer lobbying, YouTube's vibecession, a $2,500 viral fleece, Gen Z's it vacation spot, Chinaâs hottest app, the Diary of a CEO red pill pipeline, and Nigel Fara
How ICE Makes Raids Go Viral
+ Life under a Clicktatorship, shopaganda, OnlyFans visas, 365 button breakdown, the White House press briefing polymarket bets, NYTV.live, and the wildest products at CES this year
Is anyone going to take accountability for this?
+ Bo Zangeles, Terrorgram, friction-maxxing, Chinese peptides, a political influencer reality show, Tinder 4 Nazis, Trisha Paytas congressional run, the addictive world of livestream fashion auctions
How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z
+ Holiday hauls, digital homesteading, charm robots, a Netflix for Wikipedia, Ozempic Santa in sad beige SKIMS, Temu Amazon dupeception, IRL Hallmark jobs, and how to get your chatbot high on drugs
Congress Is About to Break the Internet
+ Chinamaxxing, vibe interviewing, a JoJo Siwa cruise, Disney x OpenAI, Operation Bluebird, Santa bones, Alanâs Universe, PrĂłspera's implosion, and inside the dark world of crypto casinos
A prediction market for shortform content
+ TikTok's onion lady, total darkness retreats, an Apple bloodbath, looksmaxxer fraudmaxxing, Jake Paul's startup accelerator, Certified Bangers goes MIA, and tech bro etiquette school,
Stop Feeling Helpless About AI
+ '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 pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me
A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.
How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest âwritersâ on Substack arenât writing at all.
The Girlboss-ification of AI w/ Kat Tenbarge
+ Bezosâs private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, Chinaâs âdark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big techâs âtobacco momentâ isnât what it seems
Influencers Are Replacing Themselves With AI Clones
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"
Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
+ 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
They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
+ 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
Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ 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
The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ 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
The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Havenât Noticed)
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 âbuilderâ plague
The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, âporn addictionâ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet
How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harryâs Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, and secret billionaire typing patterns
You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms
+ AI Amish influencers, baby gut health, Kai Trump's Erewhon vlog, bed rotting for art, the Substack book, MrBeast banking, Quittr, a new Ellison, Ben Affleck's AI startup, Heated Rivalry fanfic drama
How Epstein Warped the Entire Internet
Mr. Beast Islam, Roblox threesoms, the Staples Baddie, Parisian slop bowls, phone away from phone, AI pervert glasses, TX primary influencer wars, and prediction markets' billionaire founders feud
'Situation Monitoring' Products Are Flooding The Web
+ Yapper ads, the Most Evil Gay Guy, pop culture OpenClaw, Gucci runway texts, Jim Carry conspiracies, #sendBaron, Zuck's $170M mansion, Opensource Palantir, and how the AIs kill
ICEâs Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7
+ PewDiePieAI, sustainable abundance, MAGA influencers go solar, disappearing summer break, YT's newest teen sensation, giving birth on livestream, a plan to bathe entire cities in sunlight from space
Why The Internet Is Broken
+ Ai;dr, r/lanadelrey drama, total boomer luxury communism, American Girl novels, Benny Blanco livestreamer, Nicki Minaj bot farms, Slxughter, POLITICO's pink slime, and a YouTuber's fake ICE tip line
Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
+ Burnout feminism, slop surgery, sleepcations, serftok, Meta's celeb wrangler -> OpenAI, American Girl Ozempic, chatbot cafes, Tinder voting, 13 yr old skincare CEO, how crying girls will make u rich
They're Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It
+ Beast Banking, Clav's mogshot, a brainrot Reels slam poet, X's fake cancer cure problem, Polymarket Portal feet pics, AI Netflix, analog YouTube, Roblox ICE raids, and giving birth on Discord
The Rise and Fall of Livestream Fail
+ Moltbook mania, Minecraft protests, wellness anarchists, travelscrimping, GlamBOT controversy, Tinder for clankers, French Zohran, and escaping a Chinese Mafia crypto slavery scheme
Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?
+ Slopagandists, WannaBeasts, r/massivecock vs ICE, America's Kill Line, peptide pushers, Boy Throb, viral armpitting, a new class of pro-Democrat dark money creators, and is Josh the new Karen?
Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham
A Dramageddon drag show, ManyVids AI psychosis, the far right's new goth girl, 13 yr old AI founders, UpScrolled > TikTok, Rumble Shorts, IRL Heated Rivalry, and Tay Zonday takes on ICE.
The New Satanic Panic Is Here
+ Admin nights, Steal A Brainrot, GAP's AI orb, IG for fishing, influencer peptides, a16z's pro-AI creator class, and one man's journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trumpâs America
2016 Nostalgia Slop Is Taking Over
+ Contentmaxxing, soft eugenics, Heated Rivarly lookalikes, a Reddit mod meltdown, AI relationship dealbreakers, IG's force friendship, Pentagon Pokémon, & how dumb phone owners have lost their minds
Ashley St Clair on trans rights, immigration, Elon and more
+ Liquid content, choppelgangers, influencer lobbying, YouTube's vibecession, a $2,500 viral fleece, Gen Z's it vacation spot, Chinaâs hottest app, the Diary of a CEO red pill pipeline, and Nigel Fara
How ICE Makes Raids Go Viral
+ Life under a Clicktatorship, shopaganda, OnlyFans visas, 365 button breakdown, the White House press briefing polymarket bets, NYTV.live, and the wildest products at CES this year
Is anyone going to take accountability for this?
+ Bo Zangeles, Terrorgram, friction-maxxing, Chinese peptides, a political influencer reality show, Tinder 4 Nazis, Trisha Paytas congressional run, the addictive world of livestream fashion auctions
How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z
+ Holiday hauls, digital homesteading, charm robots, a Netflix for Wikipedia, Ozempic Santa in sad beige SKIMS, Temu Amazon dupeception, IRL Hallmark jobs, and how to get your chatbot high on drugs
Congress Is About to Break the Internet
+ Chinamaxxing, vibe interviewing, a JoJo Siwa cruise, Disney x OpenAI, Operation Bluebird, Santa bones, Alanâs Universe, PrĂłspera's implosion, and inside the dark world of crypto casinos
A prediction market for shortform content
+ TikTok's onion lady, total darkness retreats, an Apple bloodbath, looksmaxxer fraudmaxxing, Jake Paul's startup accelerator, Certified Bangers goes MIA, and tech bro etiquette school,
Stop Feeling Helpless About AI
+ '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 pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me
A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.
How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest âwritersâ on Substack arenât writing at all.
The Girlboss-ification of AI w/ Kat Tenbarge
+ Bezosâs private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, Chinaâs âdark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big techâs âtobacco momentâ isnât what it seems
Influencers Are Replacing Themselves With AI Clones
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"
Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
+ 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
They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
+ 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
Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ 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
The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ 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
The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Havenât Noticed)
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 âbuilderâ plague
The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, âporn addictionâ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet
How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harryâs Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, and secret billionaire typing patterns
You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms
+ AI Amish influencers, baby gut health, Kai Trump's Erewhon vlog, bed rotting for art, the Substack book, MrBeast banking, Quittr, a new Ellison, Ben Affleck's AI startup, Heated Rivalry fanfic drama
How Epstein Warped the Entire Internet
Mr. Beast Islam, Roblox threesoms, the Staples Baddie, Parisian slop bowls, phone away from phone, AI pervert glasses, TX primary influencer wars, and prediction markets' billionaire founders feud
'Situation Monitoring' Products Are Flooding The Web
+ Yapper ads, the Most Evil Gay Guy, pop culture OpenClaw, Gucci runway texts, Jim Carry conspiracies, #sendBaron, Zuck's $170M mansion, Opensource Palantir, and how the AIs kill
ICEâs Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7
+ PewDiePieAI, sustainable abundance, MAGA influencers go solar, disappearing summer break, YT's newest teen sensation, giving birth on livestream, a plan to bathe entire cities in sunlight from space
Why The Internet Is Broken
+ Ai;dr, r/lanadelrey drama, total boomer luxury communism, American Girl novels, Benny Blanco livestreamer, Nicki Minaj bot farms, Slxughter, POLITICO's pink slime, and a YouTuber's fake ICE tip line
Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
+ Burnout feminism, slop surgery, sleepcations, serftok, Meta's celeb wrangler -> OpenAI, American Girl Ozempic, chatbot cafes, Tinder voting, 13 yr old skincare CEO, how crying girls will make u rich
They're Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It
+ Beast Banking, Clav's mogshot, a brainrot Reels slam poet, X's fake cancer cure problem, Polymarket Portal feet pics, AI Netflix, analog YouTube, Roblox ICE raids, and giving birth on Discord
The Rise and Fall of Livestream Fail
+ Moltbook mania, Minecraft protests, wellness anarchists, travelscrimping, GlamBOT controversy, Tinder for clankers, French Zohran, and escaping a Chinese Mafia crypto slavery scheme
Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?
+ Slopagandists, WannaBeasts, r/massivecock vs ICE, America's Kill Line, peptide pushers, Boy Throb, viral armpitting, a new class of pro-Democrat dark money creators, and is Josh the new Karen?
Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham
A Dramageddon drag show, ManyVids AI psychosis, the far right's new goth girl, 13 yr old AI founders, UpScrolled > TikTok, Rumble Shorts, IRL Heated Rivalry, and Tay Zonday takes on ICE.
The New Satanic Panic Is Here
+ Admin nights, Steal A Brainrot, GAP's AI orb, IG for fishing, influencer peptides, a16z's pro-AI creator class, and one man's journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trumpâs America
2016 Nostalgia Slop Is Taking Over
+ Contentmaxxing, soft eugenics, Heated Rivarly lookalikes, a Reddit mod meltdown, AI relationship dealbreakers, IG's force friendship, Pentagon Pokémon, & how dumb phone owners have lost their minds
Ashley St Clair on trans rights, immigration, Elon and more
+ Liquid content, choppelgangers, influencer lobbying, YouTube's vibecession, a $2,500 viral fleece, Gen Z's it vacation spot, Chinaâs hottest app, the Diary of a CEO red pill pipeline, and Nigel Fara
How ICE Makes Raids Go Viral
+ Life under a Clicktatorship, shopaganda, OnlyFans visas, 365 button breakdown, the White House press briefing polymarket bets, NYTV.live, and the wildest products at CES this year
Is anyone going to take accountability for this?
+ Bo Zangeles, Terrorgram, friction-maxxing, Chinese peptides, a political influencer reality show, Tinder 4 Nazis, Trisha Paytas congressional run, the addictive world of livestream fashion auctions
How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z
+ Holiday hauls, digital homesteading, charm robots, a Netflix for Wikipedia, Ozempic Santa in sad beige SKIMS, Temu Amazon dupeception, IRL Hallmark jobs, and how to get your chatbot high on drugs
Congress Is About to Break the Internet
+ Chinamaxxing, vibe interviewing, a JoJo Siwa cruise, Disney x OpenAI, Operation Bluebird, Santa bones, Alanâs Universe, PrĂłspera's implosion, and inside the dark world of crypto casinos
A prediction market for shortform content
+ TikTok's onion lady, total darkness retreats, an Apple bloodbath, looksmaxxer fraudmaxxing, Jake Paul's startup accelerator, Certified Bangers goes MIA, and tech bro etiquette school,