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The ZIRPSLOP Report

Graphic design and outro by Anson Nguyen

Song by Chrystal - The Days (NOTION Remix)

Research chemicals:

Cory Doctorow - Enshittification Is Coming For Absolutely Everything

Willy Staley - How Everyone Got Lost In Netflix's Endless Library

Andrew Dewaard - Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture

Liz Pelly - Mood Machine: The Rise of Spofity and The Cost of The Perfect Playlist

IlluminatiPirate - Dead Internet Theory: Most of The Internet is Fake

Mike Pepi - Against Platforms

Anna Wiener - Uncanny Valley

Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell - The Cult of We

Nick Srnicek - Platform Capitalism

Christopher Leonard - The Lords of Easy Money

Derek Thompson - The Rise and Fall of The Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy

Alex Parene - Consolation Prizes

Willy Staley - Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching The Sopranos?

Jacob Silverman - Welcome To Slop World - How The Hostile Internet Is Driving Us Crazy

Vankatesh Rao - The Premium Mediocre Life of The Maya Millennial

Max Read - We're In Our Slop Era

Kevin Roose - Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy

Emily Baker-White - TikTok's Secret 'Heating' Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral

Cory Doctorow - Microincentives and Enshittification

Related reports:

The HIPSTER Report

The ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Report

The ZIRPSLOP Report

Comments

I like your argument, but are you equating meme to slop? If not, what discriminates these classes? What about the occasional meme that just really tickles your funnybone? Is that an aesthetic choice?

Joseph Power

ok but seriously though why did the end credits make me tear up?

Jesse Suchmann

king hipster posted another report

caprifoglio

hawk tuah!

Joey Shuster

So good. As always.

Dave Morin

You whittled my hate for now into a sharper point, but now where does it go?

Martin Lockheed

Damn twin peaks spoiilees Zirp seems like 30% causal vs other plausible 2008 policies, a lot of this would probably be happening anyway

Jake Bowling

Why is research chems in the description lmao

Krazy Lowbster

Dude keep talking Iโ€™m about to cum!

Krazy Lowbster

Iconic video

Nikita Chigoho

Banger. I esp loved the way hipsters are responding to slop. And the ending edit was awesome.

Michael Neiss

Masterpiece, congrats

Dier

Love the "austerity as abundance" framing at the end when referring to the ZIRP era. Hearing the Ezra Kleins of the world propose continued deregulation makes my skin crawl.

Cameron McManus

Agreed, this is really insightful.

surrealducks

Liz Pellyโ€™s writing is so good and so scary

Ewe

sooooo goood thanks braddddd

liza

Is "Why does Severance refuse to acknowledge ukraine's war" a real article? Inquiring minds need to know

Zoe K

Text accompaniment would be very much appreciated

Eli Balmer

Very cool, can we get a text summarisation of your points? I got a bit lost in there

Dante Adams

This one for sure just changed my life. Well done.

Blake

Wow amazed

Mathias Fruhmann

best report yet

Nicholas Haynes

sending my nephews the $5 to watch this. they were born into this world and I feel personally responsible for their well-being

Thom Pavia

a great report

evan laffer

The Ocky Way as in the chopped cheese?

Percy Hatcherson

Fi. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜Š

Victor Dos Santos

Jโ€™adore the slop bot report

Erika Braukis

Explaining the sheer state of it, in another 50 glorious mins ๐Ÿ‘

Dylan

Iโ€™m feeling depressed. I love MLG memes, but I never considered what they are a symptom of. Still will keep loving and making them, but damn. Banger music video and song at the end. Thanks Brad

Luke Thighwalker

when the prestige crops have dried up and yield no return, the hipsters turn to tending the slop, enhancing the slop, mimicking the slop even, in hopes of becoming breaded up enough to make their own prestige factories.

Aidan Lyerly

Surprised there was no mention of AI

Paul Boon

i've been writing something with this whole aura for a magazine i'm a part of and some of these lines are opening things up like crazy

avery parkway

Damn. totally

Oli Eks

Thank you for your report. This too shall pass, hopefully

Maxkreyzy123

๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ gggggfld se ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ

CUSTARD MANIAC

Extraction hinges on filtration/distillation. You can pack a lot of fiber into pasta if you boil it in its own sauce. Thank you for the nice meal! We love that you grow your own ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿš๐Ÿซš

Sarah Gold

great work but also makes me terrified for our future. even just on an economic level, how can this keep going without descending into hell

garf garfsson

100% correct. Lived through the the full cycle at a unicorn tech company. I hope you're right about this moment just being a short phase in history.

Casey Smith

some of these slop illustrations are so insane i had to pause the video until i stopped laughing

Adam

Might be the best one yet man 10/10

Zach Lathouris

brad can you make like a DVD compilation of your reports? i guarantee 2 sales (one for me one to force my dad to watch)

SHAUMBร‰

โ€œprivate innovation over public institutionsโ€ ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

Ian Maverick

slop slop

Goose

We makinโ€™ it out of the pod living with this one

Ryan Qualls

Utter excellence. Thanks for the salve, Brad.

Henry Murphy

Heโ€™s done it again

Anthony Gorczyca

incredible work as always

Max

We live in a post hipster proliferation of genre which has made possibilities endless and incomprehensible. Which I think is great, but it might mean the end of zeitgeist.

Harry

This is, in my humble opinion, your best report yet. Thank you for this important work.

Sebastien Robichaud

I truly appreciate your work. While we are all familiar with the cycle of culture/businesses being created, financialized and hollowed out, the effects of this process on social media have been both blatant and insidious. In a time of unregulated monopoly we find ourselves gasping for air in this slop, and yet another well timed report has given me oxygen and clarity. Thanks again.

Sean Williams

maybe my favorite report to date! thank you!

Jordan

Crazy how each one of these is as good as a worthwhile college thesis

JG

insightful, hopeful, thanks Brad!

Spencer Bogaert

Poor Kaws :(

Spoils

well done sir.

thisisgambles .

Word! This shit is important. Is there a way to share the video with people who need to see it?

Abigail Cohen

Skibidi ohio rizzler gyatt type shi

Adam Bellagha

Holy shit that was beautiful

MartinMartin

Whatta world. Only way out the rot is through ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

Rand Rosenberg

The bot chat was gold.

Artjom Plaunov


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