Hank: in 100 years Americans will not know Twitter but will still carry phones and watch YouTube (2024)
prediction · status: due 2124; outcome not yet known · last event: repeated (2024-08-07) · owner: Hank
In a 2024 letter to the future, Hank predicted that Americans a hundred years on will not know what Twitter was and barely know Facebook or TikTok, but will still carry phones and watch YouTube videos. A few days later, on the Dear Hank and John livestream, he repeated that he is convinced YouTube is not past its prime.
Told alongside: Hank: people will someday move on from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, which will not simply evolve (2024)
About: Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, mobile phone, YouTube
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-02 | predicted | Hank predicts Americans in 100 years will not know what Twitter was and barely know Facebook or TikTok, but will still carry phones and watch YouTube videos. | My Letter to the Future 00:03:20 |
| 2024-08-07 | repeated | Hank, citing his video last week (week of 29 July 2024), says he is convinced YouTube is not past its prime. → refers to My Letter to the Future | Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:15:05 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John finds Tumblr a ghost town of 15-year users and people fleeing other platforms for its less sophisticated algorithms, which come from lack of expertise, not choice. — 00:16:41
- 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank says the internet is at a fracturing moment: Twitter's X-ification, a possible TikTok ban, and sites shutting the open web to stop AI companies scraping content. — 00:17:30