When the AI bubble burst, they’ve already made their cash selling shovels (being very anticompetitive) and walk away. Their startup competitors wither, and they are set for the next “thing.”

They could be the first generation to grow up “GenAI Savvy” kind of like how early internet kids developed pretty decent online critical thinking compared to previous (and unfortunately, subsequent) generations.

I think it’s more “there’s no such thing as bad attention.”

Any engagement compounds, and at some point, turns into money. It’s not a mystery either, it’s a systemic issue from the way people are fed information now, thanks to the engagement optimization race to the bottom.

Celebrities can certainly fall, but it’s only if they’re boring.

But the original Jurassic Park was fun. The writing was sharp and memorable, the cast charismatic, even if the plot is not that important (which is fine).

I did love JC Avatar’s alien flora and fauna, and some small details like the realistic spaceship, but I guess it feels much less exciting in hindsight without anything to “attach” it to.

And again… the IP its name collides with is nothing to sneeze at, visually. You can pause it almost anywhere, even in “mundane” scenes, and get gorgeous fantasy shots and incredible music:

James Cameron’s Avatar series.

Then again… Does anyone actually like it? It seems to have all this online hype when it’s such a boring visual spectacle.

It’s like the opposite of the other Avatar franchise, which wasn’t a commercial hit, and seems less popular on paper, but seems to have a massive cultural impact.

The issue is it works.

Musk basically killed a US budget bill with Tweets. Imagine typing that out as fact a decade ago.

And that badge brings engagement, which is literally how they make a living.