If you’ll pardon my francais: this guy fucks. For all its obvious problems and downsides, this is how things are marketed and sold now: washing machines, (vide

If you’ll pardon my francais: this guy fucks. For all its obvious problems and downsides, this is how things are marketed and sold now: washing machines, (videos of) blowjobs, record deals, political candidates. Two examples I would cite are Tim Henson of Polyphia (who might be the first complete natural in this world, he’s like 26), and Dove Cameron, who went from epsilon to 8 figure followers in as many months as it took Kim years. Henson makes more from sponsorships from social, and more from social than from Spotify. You can’t buy the two hottest guitars in the world right now without paying him like 9 different ways. Cameron is making a run at TSwift: the ALCHEMICAL project is already a feeding frenzy without a track dropped, she’s had a lot of vocal coaching since “Taste of You”, she’s got REZZ and Diplo and apparently Sean Penn in her corner, and has more style in her manicure than Swift’s team was able to muster for the entire Eras tour. And frankly, I’m rooting for her: I miss white people pop music with some style. Someone is going to make a metric fuckton of cash implementing bandits and low-temp LLMs and hashtag embeddings working for the creator rather than as part of the “the Algorithm”. I’ve failed to interest any investors in this even as one of the main people who “worked on The Algorithm”, thanks for nothing JPow, but someone will make a mint.