Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
4 of 4 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 20 Jun 2020 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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Gavin Baker
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2 Apr 2020 – 2 Apr 2020
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David Friedberg
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20 Jun 2020 – 17 Oct 2022
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Howard Marks
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7 Sep 2025 – 7 Sep 2025
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- Dylan Patel 1 thin 9 Mar 2026 – 9 Mar 2026 +2088 d
The chronologysourced and dated, oldest first
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Gavin Baker
Baker cites Telecom Italia data showing video game traffic up 75%, social media traffic flat.
“I think the last data I saw, this was a Telecom Italia stat, so we should not mix and match, but Telecom Italia saw video game traffic up 75% and social media traffic up 0%.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg argues Facebook serves Middle America while Twitter serves coastal elites, creating distinct audience segmentation.
“And Facebook is basically a product of Middle America plus kind of like countries outside The United States and, you know, Twitter is about, you know, rich coastal kind of people.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg argues social media democracy elects representatives of mob opinion rather than actual leaders.
“Because of the fast feedback cycles that we talked about earlier, and that a point of view, kind of the mob coalesces around the point of view, you end up electing the person who represents the mob, which means that ultimately over time in a democracy, in the social media age, is you don't end up electing leadership.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg argues social media age democracies elect mob representatives instead of contrarian leaders willing to be unpopular.
“leadership, as Sax points out, needs to and has to be willing and able to lead, which means being contrarian and being inspiring.”
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Howard Marks
Marks blames social media and TV for encouraging rapid market fluctuations and short-term trading.
“you watch the shows on TV and you get somebody on who says, you should buy and some people buy and then the next guest says you should sell and things go like this.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel observes 90th percentile earners think they're middle class while 50th percentile don't, due to social media perception.
“Nowadays, people in the ninetieth percentile think they're middle class, and people in the fiftieth percentile don't think they're middle class. Yeah.”
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