The ZIRPSLOP Report
Added 2025-06-09 17:23:13 +0000 UTCGraphic 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 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 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
2025-09-21 10:29:36 +0000 UTCok but seriously though why did the end credits make me tear up?
Jesse Suchmann
2025-09-18 12:40:55 +0000 UTCking hipster posted another report
caprifoglio
2025-08-20 01:24:39 +0000 UTChawk tuah!
Joey Shuster
2025-08-19 06:33:04 +0000 UTCSo good. As always.
Dave Morin
2025-08-15 05:22:09 +0000 UTCYou whittled my hate for now into a sharper point, but now where does it go?
Martin Lockheed
2025-08-11 11:02:06 +0000 UTCDamn twin peaks spoiilees Zirp seems like 30% causal vs other plausible 2008 policies, a lot of this would probably be happening anyway
Jake Bowling
2025-08-10 01:34:19 +0000 UTCWhy is research chems in the description lmao
Krazy Lowbster
2025-07-01 02:23:02 +0000 UTCDude keep talking Iโm about to cum!
Krazy Lowbster
2025-07-01 01:42:57 +0000 UTCIconic video
Nikita Chigoho
2025-06-26 03:07:47 +0000 UTCBanger. I esp loved the way hipsters are responding to slop. And the ending edit was awesome.
Michael Neiss
2025-06-25 00:24:25 +0000 UTCMasterpiece, congrats
Dier
2025-06-15 12:11:48 +0000 UTCLove 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
2025-06-15 06:17:48 +0000 UTCAgreed, this is really insightful.
surrealducks
2025-06-15 04:19:36 +0000 UTCLiz Pellyโs writing is so good and so scary
Ewe
2025-06-15 00:55:47 +0000 UTCsooooo goood thanks braddddd
liza
2025-06-14 18:04:27 +0000 UTCIs "Why does Severance refuse to acknowledge ukraine's war" a real article? Inquiring minds need to know
Zoe K
2025-06-14 15:24:04 +0000 UTCText accompaniment would be very much appreciated
Eli Balmer
2025-06-14 03:34:56 +0000 UTCVery cool, can we get a text summarisation of your points? I got a bit lost in there
Dante Adams
2025-06-14 00:37:55 +0000 UTCThis one for sure just changed my life. Well done.
Blake
2025-06-13 17:19:21 +0000 UTCWow amazed
Mathias Fruhmann
2025-06-13 01:36:41 +0000 UTCbest report yet
Nicholas Haynes
2025-06-12 21:49:19 +0000 UTCsending my nephews the $5 to watch this. they were born into this world and I feel personally responsible for their well-being
Thom Pavia
2025-06-12 21:20:16 +0000 UTCa great report
evan laffer
2025-06-12 20:59:36 +0000 UTCThe Ocky Way as in the chopped cheese?
Percy Hatcherson
2025-06-12 17:06:44 +0000 UTCFi. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Victor Dos Santos
2025-06-12 16:20:24 +0000 UTCJโadore the slop bot report
Erika Braukis
2025-06-12 16:06:06 +0000 UTCExplaining the sheer state of it, in another 50 glorious mins ๐
Dylan
2025-06-12 15:29:42 +0000 UTCIโm 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
2025-06-12 02:15:18 +0000 UTCwhen 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
2025-06-11 20:56:22 +0000 UTCSurprised there was no mention of AI
Paul Boon
2025-06-11 19:25:20 +0000 UTCi'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
2025-06-11 15:08:48 +0000 UTCDamn. totally
Oli Eks
2025-06-11 07:28:45 +0000 UTCThank you for your report. This too shall pass, hopefully
Maxkreyzy123
2025-06-11 05:41:25 +0000 UTC๐๐๐๐ gggggfld se ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ
CUSTARD MANIAC
2025-06-11 02:01:35 +0000 UTCExtraction 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 ๐ฅฅ๐๐ซ
Sarah Gold
2025-06-10 23:32:54 +0000 UTCgreat 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
2025-06-10 21:23:12 +0000 UTC100% 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
2025-06-10 18:33:37 +0000 UTCsome of these slop illustrations are so insane i had to pause the video until i stopped laughing
Adam
2025-06-10 18:15:35 +0000 UTCMight be the best one yet man 10/10
Zach Lathouris
2025-06-10 18:14:09 +0000 UTCbrad 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
2025-06-10 17:47:16 +0000 UTCโprivate innovation over public institutionsโ ๐ฎโ๐จ๐ฎโ๐จ๐ฎโ๐จ
Ian Maverick
2025-06-10 17:35:28 +0000 UTCslop slop
Goose
2025-06-10 17:30:03 +0000 UTCWe makinโ it out of the pod living with this one
Ryan Qualls
2025-06-10 13:46:19 +0000 UTCUtter excellence. Thanks for the salve, Brad.
Henry Murphy
2025-06-10 06:07:43 +0000 UTCHeโs done it again
Anthony Gorczyca
2025-06-10 05:25:28 +0000 UTCincredible work as always
Max
2025-06-10 05:09:31 +0000 UTCWe 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
2025-06-10 03:53:09 +0000 UTCThis is, in my humble opinion, your best report yet. Thank you for this important work.
Sebastien Robichaud
2025-06-10 03:18:26 +0000 UTCI 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
2025-06-10 02:35:49 +0000 UTCmaybe my favorite report to date! thank you!
Jordan
2025-06-10 02:13:39 +0000 UTCCrazy how each one of these is as good as a worthwhile college thesis
JG
2025-06-10 01:38:01 +0000 UTCinsightful, hopeful, thanks Brad!
Spencer Bogaert
2025-06-09 22:33:34 +0000 UTCPoor Kaws :(
Spoils
2025-06-09 21:27:14 +0000 UTCwell done sir.
thisisgambles .
2025-06-09 20:47:49 +0000 UTCWord! This shit is important. Is there a way to share the video with people who need to see it?
Abigail Cohen
2025-06-09 20:26:49 +0000 UTCSkibidi ohio rizzler gyatt type shi
Adam Bellagha
2025-06-09 19:37:35 +0000 UTCHoly shit that was beautiful
MartinMartin
2025-06-09 19:22:01 +0000 UTCWhatta world. Only way out the rot is through ๐ตโ๐ซ
Rand Rosenberg
2025-06-09 19:10:05 +0000 UTCThe bot chat was gold.
Artjom Plaunov
2025-06-09 18:01:25 +0000 UTC
