The Dark, Democratizing Power of the Social-Media Stock Market
BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-dark-democratizing-power-of-the-social-media-stock-market
where would Twitter, Reddit, or TikTok be without the people who supply them with content? A site like BitClout is simultaneously empowering and dark. It collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.