John: Nerdfighteria will stick around (2024)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2024-11-01) · owner: John
In January 2024 John said he suspected Nerdfighteria would stick around, as it had amid an ocean of algorithm-optimized content. No later video records the outcome.
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-02 | predicted | John suspects Nerdfighteria will stick around, because it somehow has amid an ocean of higher-res, algorithm-optimized content. (hedged) | Being Old on YouTube 00:03:42 |
| 2024-11-01 | repeated | John says Nerdfighteria is not weakening because of generative AI; maybe in five years, but right now it is stronger and more interesting than ever. | Working Through a Crisis with My Brother 00:04:01 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John says over a hundred thousand people still show up to watch these videos, which amazes him. — 00:03:59
- 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John thanks viewers for spending part of their week with him for 17 years: it has been the great privilege of his professional life. — 00:04:10
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John tells Hank he is doing a really good job; Hank says he has a very hard time believing it. — 00:04:31
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank wishes he could see what is coming better and feels right now he can't, though he never saw the pandemic coming either. — 00:04:31
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says media has already been completely flipped over and is about to be flipped over again by autonomous agents that can create on their own. — 00:05:07
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says some of Hank's distress is worry about generative AI and some is grappling for the first time with his mortality and future health anxiety. — 00:05:07
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says Hank is trying to view through the lens of the universal something that is intensely personal. — 00:05:36
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says he mostly imagines himself through how he imagines others (people he knows, employees, people on Twitter and TikTok) see him. — 00:05:36