2y ago

"Reaching people on the internet in 2022" by The Oatmeal

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This is why decentralized, non-corporate social media is so important.
I agree with the point but it is kind of funny to see the oatmeal, the nickelback of comics, complaining about it
- What's the deal with both the oatmeal and nickelback?
  
  I semi remember an interview with the guy from nickelback who said (obviously paraphrasing) that he studied the songs that reached number one in the rock chart, and noted that, ok they have this tempo, they have a key change here, etc etc, and set out to make a song that had those qualities. very successfully as it turned out.
  there's the same sort of essential cynicism (and subsequent success) with the oatmeal
- What are you talking about? The Oatmeal is bad ass! Probably one of the best things on the internet.
- Didn't realize it was objectively wrong opinion day again.
  
  That day is every three minutes if you're on the internet.
- I have no idea what you're on about. The fact that all of them did it means nobody did it out of specific stupidity, and that it was just very difficult to see it coming.
  
  I'm also not sure it's the fault of "creative" people. If people only visit closed systems like FB / Insta / Tiktok etc. are creatives to jist not post there? (In an ideal world obviously not but ...)
  
  I'm playing devil's advocate here, but I've actually heard from old timers in the Internet business warning that this was an actual problem for influencers back in 2012, so some people saw it coming and who doesn't deserve some blame for lack of risk management.
  
  Especially with the way these companies positioned themselves. Google and Apple were the anti-Microsoft. Google even had the motto don’t be evil. Facebook was started by one of us! A hacker nerd dropout who loved open source. Of course he’s on our side!
  
  It was not difficult to see where it was headed, even at the very beginning. It was just impossible to do anything about. When the majority of the common users only visit one site, and Google starts promoting that site above all others, burying relevant results, you have little choice but to put your stuff on that site. Matt (the guy who drew the cartoon) has been trying to migrate off of Facebook pretty much forever, but people don't care.
- Who are “creative” people? This is such a strange and vague demographic
  
  Don't give this guy any time. He's advocating for executing all Republicans in another thread
- Yes, and it's not just creative types.
  There's a whole lot of people building their businesses on top of other people's businesses, and being super surprised when the rug gets pulled because the line went down.
  We need a way for people to discover things based on other things they like, without money getting in the way and fucking everything up.

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