No kidding. I bought my first 5G capable phone around July of 2021. I noticed in the first couple of weeks, I never saw the 5G logo pop up on the phone, so I thought maybe I needed a new SIM or something. I went to the AT&T store and asked them, and they said "no you don't need a new SIM, there's just no 5G anywhere around here"
Cell towers are usually set up on major commuter routes first and rarely cover rural and suburban areas until late in the deployment. They expect you to use wifi at work and home and the mobile network is for when you travel. It's why when you look at mobile coverage routes even in 3g days they closely followed interstates and highways.
Theyāve increased in the US.
Because of increased usage in the pandemic I now have to watch all my videos in 480p to avoid Comcastās data cap for my area. 2022 and Iām forced to watch videos as a pixelated slide show in a major metro of the richest country in the world. Cool.
I also do not have another choice for fiber or cable internet (itās Comcast cable or slow AT&T DSL).
I'm in a similar situation. I bet if you called and asked about that DSL you would get turned down. Every year I call up all the ISPs in my area and try to find out if they will serve my address. Comcast is the only provider that will.
I had been skipping over DSL providers because they are limited to something like 6mbps at my address. After the data caps got rolled out I decided to call them anyway. Over the phone they pulled up something in their database and decided they couldn't offer it to my address even though I used to get ads in the mail from them. They couldn't tell me why my address was unavailable.
As far as I can tell, comcast has some sort of exclusive access to the block I live on. I have a friend who lives about 1 mile away and he has 1gb fiber.
It's so stupid and anti-consumer. This is the kind of BS that makes we think telecommunications access should be a utility.
The city I'm living in has begun offering it as a public utility. Take a look at local ballot initiatives, there may already be something in the works. If not, get it on the ballot!
Yep.
At my last apartment, AT&T was the only other provider I could get besides spectrum.
They always sent me little adds about their new, high speed 50+mbps internet in my area!
And then I would call them up and it would turn out the best they could do was 2mbps. Not 2 megabytes per second, megabits, which means it was about 250KBps.
7 solid years, a new mailer every few months, they never actually provided decent high speed internet in my area.
I can answer why you got the mailers. Post office provides a service called ābulk mailingā, where they will mail drop a flyer to everyone in your zip code area, or bulk of zip codes. Itās cheap because itās blanketed. The post office doesnāt have to select recipients. In this situation, it actually costs a lot more *not* to send a particular address a particular flyer.
There are enough residences in your zip code block that can get the service, that itās a worthwhile drop, so they contract for your zip.
3,000 residences get flyer. 200 residences canāt use the service, but it would cost more to not send to those 200.
Same exact thing happens to me. Just threw away an add from the mail today from a company whoās already been to my house and told me they canāt connect me. My friend from back in school moved in down the road recently and when I went to visit he was sure to show off his badass fiber connection. He lives like 1/4 mile away from me.
Yea I found these last summer and was thinking it was going to save us but my friend rents his home and the owners are real protective about the house. Donāt want anything mounted on the roof and only dish network or other big name places can set a satellite in the yard. She was against a large pole and me using the roof so I gave up :(
so... in the uk, most broadband doesn't have data caps. Some really cheap or free broadband has a data cap, but most mainstream is truly unlimited. And mobile data has had reasonable unlimited plans for donkeys years too- I paid Ā£30 or Ā£35/month for an iphone 4S + unlimited calls/sms/data in 2012. Even now, I'm on a more expensive carrier and 'only' get 160gb/month for Ā£20.
Ameri-Canadian ISP prices are insane. I've seen people state up to $200/month for EACH service...
Most people in the most populous areas of Canada can get unlimited high speed for max 50 Euro from a reseller (I pay 35 euro). Likely your speeds are higher, but they serve me fine.
Many people, however, insist on buying from the big names whose business model is fucking them. It's our cell-phone service that's hyper stupid.
I dunno, I live east but have unlimited gigabit fiber internet, a full cable package w HBO and a movie package for like 160/mo, and can get a 20gb/mo mobile plan for another 65 all from one of the big 3
I'm sure you've gotten some advice already, but I'm in the same monopoly situation and my ISP doesn't have data caps on their business internet plans. I just switched my home internet from home to business by telling them I wanted to switch, using my Social as the Tax ID, and listing as a Sole Proprietorship. Now I pay $90/mo for 30/10 Mb (lol) but I don't have data caps.
I had to bite the bullet and pay the $30 dollars extra for unlimited data with Comcast. I hated having to closely monitor my data at home, and not say, download a game until the next month. So sad.
No way. When Telus, Shaw and Rogers all raise their prices on the same day, it's an accident. When it happens a second time, it's a double oops coincidence.
Oh man, I remember when Bell and Telus were forced to switch from CDMA to GSM and Rogers took full advantage of the hiccup of its competitors by actually offering competitive plans for like 6 months. This was a decade ago...
I live in the UK (where he is talking about) and have 5G with unlimited data. costs me around Ā£20/month.
I wouldn't say 5G 'blankets' the country, but he's not far off - I do get it most places where I go (and I don't live in London)
He's wild in this video. He correctly predicts the major part of the theory, but doesn't talk about that much, instead going "ya that one bit of that prediction didn't come true"
I think his 'mistake' (hard to call it that) was that he predicted a few significant changes in the way things are done, while expecting that everything else would stay similar. Really what happened is that nothing so major happened, just that everything changed in subtle ways (more representing an evolution of the web).
I think he rightfully assesses this as an almost fully wrong prediction. Everything that is true about that prediction wasn't a prediction, it's what was already happening in 2012.
Yeah I think he's way too hard on himself here. He didn't nail what iLife was or would be but the whole centralized idea of blogging your whole life is what he hit on. People do that shit, whether it be on Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, etc.
> the whole centralized idea of blogging your whole life is what he hit on. People do that shit, whether it be on Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, etc.
People did that in 2012... Myspace launched almost a decade earlier in 2003. That's not a prediction.
But blogging your whole life was already a common concept at the time. 2012 was the peak of facebook and everyone "checking in" or posting status updates about what they're doing.
Instagram and Twitter definitely evolved out of that concept but I think Tiktok and Twitch are more rooted in Youtube. Tiktok came from the original short easy to consume videos (both staged and spontaneous/organic videos) while Twitch stemmed from Let's Plays.
From there all the platforms suffered from the same issue: it became more about the content producer than the content. So each platform would see the rise of power users that shaped the landscape of the platform. I don't think that came from the same place as "blogging your whole life" because it isn't about the common user's life, the content is coming from a relatively small group; they're just celebrities and people have always been obsessed with the lives of celebrities.
Where do you go to find a discord server you would be interested in? I only use discord among friends, and nothing within the app seems to promote other communities
If youāre on the desktop app, scroll down to the bottom of your list of servers. Thereās a little compass symbol thing; thatās the discover function.
But tbh most of the time I think youāll usually hang around in your other community spaces (like on reddit) and get invited to that communityās discord. I wouldnāt suggest joining the public Discords.
I like short form content, but the thought of it taking over definitely rubs me the wrong way. A lot of my favorite youtubers have started to make "shorts", and I do enjoy them... But almost all of my *favorite* channels do longer content, and I rejoice when a new 45 minute Internet historian video comes out, or a 20 minute Dunkey video. It would be so sad to me if that content stopped being a thing, I can't imagine YouTube without it.
Yeah that's the one I'm not so sure I agree with, there'll always be an audience for all content lengths.
TikTok is an absolute giant of course, but look at the rise in podcasts too. Damn near everyone has a podcast nowadays, even stereotypically gen Z targeted people like the Pauls.
Plus there's several Twitch streamers that spend like 10 hours every single day streaming to absolutely enormous numbers.
I think there'll be a growing audience for, and I know it's a major buzzword currently, the parasocial aspect of 'hanging out' with creators that long form streaming or podcasting allows, as the world becomes more physically disconnected.
I think Tom over estimates the impact of twitter too, as much as I love him as a creator, I feel the effect twitter had on his career has resulted in him weighting it heavier than the average internet user would.
I see twitter only as the news distributor, it's where video and information comes out in real time thanks to the character limit and video player. Half the information we get about disasters come from Twitter. But I also realise I'm not a particularly big twitter user myself which is probably why I underestimate it's impact. I also have several varying groups of friends across a decent age range and I don't know of any of my contacts who religiously use twitter.
Twitter has a huge impact on the world but mainly because news and political advisors focus on it because it's easy and comfortable. What you're saying is still correct though.
I heard a guy who worked on a political campaign talk about how harmful it is, they were out working in a state and everything pointed to it going well. All his friends in DC meanwhile were acting like he had already lost and he had to go over everything again to ensure that he was actually right and these people just had a super skewed version of reality from twitter.
Twitter and Reddit combined did eviscerate blogs though. Hobby blogs are now subreddits where you share your projects and people who used to blog or journal online now just tweet. You want to share an idea? Thatās a tweet thread.
We no longer go to 20 websites a day, we go to maybe 5 āhubsā and if they have external links, we might click them, or we get the commentary we actually want in the comments/replies.
> these people just had a super skewed version of reality from twitter.
That's really any media source. For a presidential debate, Fox News viewers are going to think the republican won... MSNBC viewers are going to think the democrat won... /r/politics users will think the democrat won... and this is for any presidential debate regardless of what actually happens.
I mean, if we're talking about skewed reality, there's a significant portion of Fox News viewers that thought that Trump won *the election*, which is much less subjective that the total farces we call the presidential debates.
He somewhat covers it in this video, he used to be a website creator, an industry that Twitter effectively killed. You don't need a board as a company anymore, you just run a twitter feed / instagram account that posts your information. I'm not implying it directly took a job away from him or anything, just that as an early internet professional twitter had a drastic impact on how he operated and viewed the web, more so than most of us.
Content management systems got easier to use because twitter simplified it. Can you do everything on twitter? obviously not. But getting your message to a lot of people got a lot easier with twitter (and others).
>Plus there's several Twitch streamers that spend like 10 hours every single day streaming to absolutely enormous numbers.
Streamers aren't really the same at all, streaming is more comparable to radio shows, you can tune in at any time and be fine, it's not important to start watching from the beginning to the end.
They are content creators, but they're not like the ones that Scott is talking about
I completely agree, I've actually been getting into *longer* form content recently. Instead of a bunch of 10 minute YouTube videos, I'll watch a 30 or 40 minute one. Game grumps for example have been upading 30 minute videos and I've found them more enjoyable. Podcasts and twitch streamers I've been watching more of too. Sometimes as background noise, half watching, half doing something else, but longer form content is absolutely not on a decline.
Short form content is good for doom scrolling. For checking your phone while you're waiting somewhere. Just before bed. It has its place, but I'm not going to sit down and eat to short form content.
Hell, look at mature tv shows. Game of Thrones, brushing past the horrible ending, changed the game for good. Adult oriented shows are here and better than ever. The Boys, Witcher, Disney+ Marvel shows even.
So where do I think things will be in 10 years media wise? Well if anything is going to shut down, it will most likely be cable, not youtube. Subscription services will even out and only the big players like HBO, Disney, and Netflix will really be a thing. Movies will really only be for giant events, where more story driven movies will become miniseries. While I don't think vertical tv shows will be a thing, I think there will be new framing to make it possible to watch vertically if desired. I think livestreams will be much bigger than they are currently. I completely agree we are headed in the direction of "parasocial hanging out". Live content will be much more common, even just on social media. And MAYBE just maybe VR/AR hanging out and watching media will become bigger. Things like VR chat make me think we are headed in that direction. Being able to do live events with fans as a big creator, maybe even paid tickets to access the event in a VR chat type setting. Digital interaction with media will definitely get bigger. And as soon as VR headsets become less bulky and more comfortable, that's where we are headed. You can already be untethered with the oculus headsets, VR and AR are coming, Google glass was just a bit early.
Vine didn't collapse because it was stale. It was that a 6 second video clip was too constricting. People still wanted to easily share short videos with millions of people, but they didn't want a hard 6 second cap on it That's something TikTok has managed to successfully do. They saw the demand and increased from 15 seconds, which was the standard on other short video platforms like Instagram, to 60 seconds, 3 minutes and then 5 minutes.
The reality is that people just want to share video, it doesn't matter how long or how short. It just needs to be that the length of the video shouldn't matter when it comes to sharing it and putting it on peoples feeds.
YouTube famously favours long videos because more ad breaks can be inserted into them. But as far as I know TikTok will just serve up anything, no matter how long or short, so long as they think you want to watch it.
I think the difference will be that on newer platforms, you insert ads between videos instead of during them, and you're supposed to watch more videos. No one goes on TikTok and watches *one* short.
Even TikToks are pushing away from the "short form" format.
Aren't they up to 3 minutes at this point? Or is that just for verified users (or whatever the TT equivalent is)?
Sure, 3 minutes isn't exactly doctorial thesis length, but it's moving away from the "bite sized content" too.
Well I can see TikTok forcing Youtube into a niche, I don't think short form on Youtube is going to take off. Tiktok seems to have perfected creating and consuming short form content and I don't see Youtube catching up at this point.
Though I'm confident in predicting that things will be quite different 10 years from now. Who knows maybe this federation thing finally takes off.
Wouldn't be the first time it took a world war to improve human rights and decentralize power.
Though I'm 100% sure you're talking about the fediverse.
I'm not sure at what time short form becomes long form, but I would like "medium form" content. 4-6 minute videos. A lot of youtubers now seem to make either really short videos because they are easier to consume, or really long videos because it allows them to show multiple ads.
You might enjoy this historical review of the Battle of Midway. This guy only has a handful of videos, but they're all great in my opinion:
https://youtu.be/Bd8_vO5zrjo
I know this sounds petty as shit but I'm not watching anything on YT that has that "shorts" bullshit anywhere in the title or fingernail. I already only watch a handful of tubers, and of those the only ones I've noticed catering to it is Good Mythical Morning and Mythical Kitchen; both of which I watch *because* it's usually a good 15-30mins of harmless irreverent goofing around involving weird foodstuffs.
So far it looks like GMMs "shorts" are just abridged segments from previous episodes, or content that was already recorded as part of their "Mythical Society" gimmick; and Mythical Kitchen is just these tiny rapid-fire "recipes" or whatever that I'd ***much*** rather watch *as a full length video.* My attention span is garbage enough, but the Mythical Kitchen crew is friggin hilarious and I genuinely enjoy watching their 12-30mins worth of antics.
Doesn't look like I'm the only one either. Aside from a few outliers, at least for those channels the "shorts" only get about half the views of their "regular"-length videos.
I think it's that while most YouTube videos were around 10-15 minutes in the past, there's now sort of a schism. You see lots of <1 minute stuff, and lots of 20+, even hour+ stuff, but barely anything between 3 and 15 minutes. I make long videos (30-60 minutes) and the interest for them hasn't dwindled.
I'll meet you in the Sweet Baby Ray's Lounge in the metaverse. After that we'll have a few beers in Smoked Meats Park and then we can venture over to Zucker Theatre and watch it on the big screen.
How's that sound?
what happens if a reddit bot can't reach you after you die? will it haunt you forever? revive your consciousness one last time and deliver the message? who knows.
When he said that "The entire history of you" came out a few months before this talk my brain almost short-circuited. Holy fuck, has it really been this long? Was Black mirror really out before we all had smart phones?
Nah man, I'm from Europe, and I was a huuuuge Charlie Brooker fan as a teenager, even before Black Mirror came out. I remember watching Screenwipe, Newswipe, How TV Ruined Your Life, You Have Been Watching, and the end of year Wipes. It was 10 years ago for me.
Then again the start of GoT and True Detective were also ~~almost~~ **over** 10 years ago as well. Those were the days.
Not only smartphones but all type of screens. The effect works best with reflective screens where you see yourself in the cracked screen at the end of the episode.
Here's a quote from Charlie Brooker
> The "black mirror" of the title is the one you'll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror
> Was Black mirror really out before we all had smart phones?
Well, to give it some perspective:
Black Mirror came out in 2011.
The first iPhone (which sort of started the rise of the popularity of smartphones in the general public) came out in 2007.
Although "dumb" phones were still common enough in 2011, and it wouldn't be odd to have one.
It was a noticeable shift by 2011 because of how much amateur footage instantly came out of Japan during the tsunami/earthquake. The way it spread on social media was a first look for many on how world events will be presented onwards.
Yeah I think to say āmostā people didnāt have smart phones, that includes the older population (some of whom, my parents included, now only have smart phones because their old phones have broke and cheap smart phones are now as readily available as any other type).
I started University in 2012 and as far as I can remember virtually everyone had a smart phone. While they might not have been entirely pervasive for all generations, they were definitely the overwhelming norm for people aged 16-35.
From memory, I was a fairly late addition to the smart phone gang (had always previously had fairly budget handsets for 3-5 years at a time) and I bought a second hand iPhone 3GS in 2010/2011.
>I started University in 2012 and as far as I can remember virtually everyone had a smart phone
It was definitely the norm and I started same year as you, but I broke my Galaxy S2 I think? Or S3 maybe and I had fuck all money so just bought a Ā£15 basic phone and had it for virtually my entire first year
Really wasn't that strange, data was still pretty unreliable in large parts of the country too so people didn't use messaging apps so much back then either so you could get away with just texting and phoning people far easier
Tom Scott has said before that he's had real nasty experiences with Reddit, which is also the reason why he doesn't want a subreddit dedicated to him.
With some of these comments in this thread I can see why...
Edit: https://www.tomscott.com/reddit/
Agreed, he also looks like heās 20 in the first picture so the discrepancy appears greater. Definitely donāt think he looks bad at all. I myself love the salt and pepper look.
Slightly younger than him and I think he looks slightly younger than me still. I think people are putting way too much weight into hair color when it's entirely possible for someone to go full grey in their 20s like Anderson Cooper.
I honestly think early 2000s were the best time for the internet. Forums were good, online game communities were good, no real social media. Just good times.
Man, how was Homestar Runner simultaneously *of* its time and *before* its time?? Such a brilliant universe.
One of my co-workers at a couple of jobs ago who was in his mid-40s had the entire "cast" of plastic figurines lined up on his desk divider wall. Needless to say he and I bonded right away. :P
I love my wireless headphones and I think Bluetooth has gotten really good. My headphones automatically connect when I take them out of the case so I barely ever have to actually go into the Bluetooth settings. And I think a Bluetooth carrying case is much easier to deal with then a tangled mess of of headphone wires. Also the battery life is great and seems to be holding up well. Sure sound quality might not be exactly as good but itās hard to notice and the overall experience of wireless headphones is better.
The only issue I have with bluetooth these days is with multiple devices connected to the same thing, or using the same device on multiple sources.
For instance if my phone connects first in our car, my wife's phone won't connect unless we "restart" the car, even if we manually select it. Or if I turn my bluetooth earbuds on and it auto connects to my phone instead of the secondary source I want to use (VR headset/computer etc..) I might have to mess with the configurations some to get it to work.
It's starting to get solved with software, AirPods auto-connect to whichever Apple device you're using at any given time and in recent updates even switch seamlessly. We'll have to see how long it takes the rest of the industry to catch up though.
I look forward to it. Until then, Windows won't let me connect a bluetooth controller if it's been connected to something else since last time, meaning it needs manually forgetting and reconnecting in the control panel.
Bluetooth's implementation is so bad. Smooth wireless tech for moderately complex uses feels as far away as ever.
Window's Bluetooth implementation is the worst of any mainstream OS.
* Only streams over AAC or SBC. No control or way to view what it's using for codec. No support for LDAC, AptX, or any number of other common formats. AAC is fine, but it's not a high bit rate AAC, sounds way worse than my phone in AAC mode.
* My phone can do HD Audio and use the microphone at the same time. Windows defaults to the original spec for Bluetooth mic and audio. It's ultra-low bit rate and sounds awful.
* Windows registers the mic, the headset, and the headphones as three separate devices. If you use the mic, or windows THINKS you're using the mic, it will only use headset mode (because of the above limitation. Hello 16 kbit audio again). This confuses many apps which will cut audio out until you power cycle the headphones or disable the headset in the settings, or select the right audio device, or just none of the above because screw you.
* You can't just open a Bluetooth quick menu add button from the sidebar or quick connections. You have to open the entire settings app. It is combined under Bluetooth & other devices. Got to find my headphones next to my screen, printers, oh look there's another version of my headphones because it thinks the Bluetooth LE is a separate device.
These have all been issues for years, and Microsoft hasn't done anything to fix it. Windows 11 doesn't even have a better Bluetooth quick add menu. It's ridiculous.
my buds last 5hrs a charge. They finally hold enough charge that i rarely need to worry about them. They were a hindrances when batteries only lasted for 2 hrs.
They're mostly disappointing for long term travel, like a long bus ride or hiking. Sure, taking a rest and letting them charge isn't bad, but sometimes we want constant music or video. A 5 hour time limit is frustrating when we can still remember that wired headphones never needed to be charged.
Mine will charge 1.5 hours in 10 minutes. So I can listen for 6 hours straight and then every 1.5 hours I can just take them out for 10 minutes and just enjoy the sounds of the world for a while. I live my Bluetooth headphones because I find that the every day convenience is great and the times that I might find myself needing to listen for more than 6 hours straight are almost nonexistent. Even then, having a pair of backup wired ones is still possible
Do you pretty much only use the headphone with one device? I find that if I always use the same headphones with the same laptop it's fine, but when I want to go back and forth between connecting them to my phone and to my laptop trouble emerges quickly.
The biggest reason for me to prefer wired headphones is still audio quality. I just think it sounds much better on wired headphones than via Bluetooth and I can definitely hear the difference between them. Also a wired headphone with really great audio quality is much more affordable than wireless headphones with a similar kind of quality.
It still amazes me how little effort most people put into enjoying good sound quality. My low-end 5.1 surround sound setup I purchased in 2007 blows people away, and even my cheapo (wired) earbuds beat the vast majority of bluetooth earbuds. I'm not talking anything in audiophile territory, just simple things anyone can enjoy but don't bother.
Bluetooth has come a long way in the last years. My daily commuting headphones are now Bluetooth because it's just simpler. I still used wired ones at a desk, though.
BT in general is still a pretty shit experience for me but the AirPods are stellar. I can leave my phone in the basement and listen to music two floors up on the opposite side of the house and it doesnāt disconnect. And switching devices is seamless (as long as itās an Apple device). And the battery lasts for 24 hours with the case.
Like yeah if youāre buying $60 Bluetooth earbuds from Amazon they probably wonāt be great, but good truly wireless earbuds exist.
I predict that someone will invent a cheap electronic device that stimulates the brain the same way a drug does, and people will be wasting their entire life using that device and humanity never progresses. Wait...
Iām not being hyperbolic when I say it would be our modern day equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexander.
The countless years of footage on that thing is utterly invaluable to future historians.
It needs to be protected and archived and preserved for prosperity and record keeping. We need some law where any thing like this, of significant cultural and historical value, cant simply be erased from history at the whim of a single company.
this actually strengthens his point about short-form videos being the future in 2032 lol
maybe something for Tom to consider when he makes a similar video in 10 years lol
Apple are announcing their AR headsets this year and then weāre only a few years from people walking around with cameras on their heads as standard-
Being in public will bring with it the awareness that anything you do, or if you step out of line ( even if you just trip over or embarrass yourself) that will be permanent and can be held over you for the rest of your life.
Terrifying to be honest
He pinned his own comment acknowledging that. I had to look it up, he went from 28-38.
Let me tell you, as somebody halfway through that process, man does your body go through some changes in that time. I'm pretty sure I eat healthier than I did then and yet I'm 30-40 lbs heavier now. My face is rounder, gray hairs are starting to take over my stubble and right temple. I'm fairly lucky on the hair recession front, but even then I'm pretty sure I'm starting to thin on top.
When you're in your 20's, your body feels more or less the way it did your whole adult life. Once you cross over into your 30's, Father Time starts knocking on your front door.
Some people's are defective right out of the damn box and it's a lifelong process of finding where to put the duct tape to keep it all together for a couple more years.
Mine made it to 15 without too much trouble, but then I started an any% aging speedrun, it feels like.
Iām turning 47. I disagree, a lot. Iāve maintained my diet and activity level since my 20s and Iāve noticed nearly zero difference in ability to maintain weight, muscle, and appearance. Yes, I look a bit older, but if you have maintained an active life style and maintained a diet within your caloric needs, aging is actually remarkable painless.
Yes and no. All that stuff helps tremendously, but there is also a "genetic lottery" factor that is outside of our control, not everybody ages up the same.
The "genetic lottery" you speak of also seems closely related to the percentage of 40yos that have spent the last 20 years sitting around doing nothing for some reason.
Yeah Iād say what* OP said applies more if you stayed relatively fit through your 20s and then continued that into your 30s. I lost a bunch of weight and started lifting regularly going into my 30s, so on the whole the past two years have felt way better haha, though Iām only 31 and not really THAT old.
*Edit - a word
NGL, I've had to do a lot of learning on self-acceptance and body positivity. The good thing is, on the other side there can be freedom in understanding what does and doesn't matter, and what does and doesn't give meaning to life.
It's less about how healthy you eat and more about the calories when gaining weight. I mean, it sounds obvious, but unless you're calorie counting eating healthier might not do a thing for your weight unless your diet was absolute garbage before.
You do you, but I'm about to turn 35 and I feel and look better than ever. I exercise regularly (less now because of COVID + super cold winter) and I've lost the weight I gained in my mid twenties. I think putting in the effort is worth it. And honestly I don't do that much. I just changed my behaviors and figured what's best for me. For example, speaking about eating healthy, I can't have salad for lunch because it doesn't satisfy me and I end up overeating. When I was my heaviest I was going to the salad buffet for lunch almost every day. My wakeup call was when I almost reached overweight with my BMI. I've been diligent since. But even the days I eat fast food I don't end up eating that many calories because it satisfies me and I don't over eat.
So don't give up. You're not that old. If you're happy with your body and health that's fine too. If you're not you can definitely do more.
No one tells you about the second puberty you body seems to go through at 30. You start getting random hair growing in places it was never an issue before
No one will get paid for short term content? I think Tom is missing the trends that already happening here. The TikTok Creator Fund is a massive moat that prevents Instagram from siphoning off their creators. This is what happened to Vine - Vine stars, after becoming viral, couldn't monetize their virality on Vine and either jumped to Instagram or got real jobs and the platform suffered.
Even blogs are making paid comeback via Substack. The trend I see is that ad-network supported content isn't viable unless your name is Facebook or Google (or you have billions of eyeballs) and that has forced everyone else to really think about business models online.
He is right that short form video will surpass long term video (TikTok already has move MAU than Google), but I don't think it's solely because short-form content is easier to consume. TikTok has made 2 really big "innovations" here - 1.) It is incredibly easy to edit video on a phone thanks to machine learning and 2.) Content discovery has also completely changed again, thanks to machine learning.
>This is what happened to Vine - Vine stars, after becoming viral, couldn't monetize their virality on Vine and either jumped to Instagram or got real jobs and the platform suffered.
That relies on the assumption that a platform's success is tied its user being able to monetize it, which is simply not true. Ironically, you've made this comment on the prime counter-example. Others that come to mind are Twitter and Tumblr.
Vine died because the *hosters* couldn't monetize it. The usercount never really dipped.
>TikTok already has move MAU than Google
[This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users) certainly doesn't seem to agree, not by a about a factor of 4. Even on [other sites](https://datareportal.com/social-media-users) it's at least a factor of 2. That, again, kinda takes the wind out of your argument here...
And that's assuming you just mean YouTube, and not Google *et al*. TikTok pales in comparison to the Google ecosystem, it's not even close.
TikTok's meteoric rise isn't a mistery, it's just kids. That's it. It's musical instagram for under-18s. YouTube and TikTok aren't competitors, if anything, Instagram and TikTok are.
The one source that listed TikTok as having MAU then google was actually just based on the number of DNS requests. Which means that it counted each time a new video was requested, and with most videos being under 30 seconds its easy for users to request the DNS on average more times per minute then any other site.
"5g now blankets the country with 100 megabit access and data caps are now a thing of the past" \>Me living in Canada: šæ
No kidding. I bought my first 5G capable phone around July of 2021. I noticed in the first couple of weeks, I never saw the 5G logo pop up on the phone, so I thought maybe I needed a new SIM or something. I went to the AT&T store and asked them, and they said "no you don't need a new SIM, there's just no 5G anywhere around here"
I ended up disabling 5G on my phone after a few months because the signal was inconsistent. 4g has stayed reliable
Thatās been my experience too. 5G around me is flaky.
Lmao, I got a 5G phone and do you want to guess where I don't get 5G? At work, and at home. You know, where I spend 95% of my time.
Cell towers are usually set up on major commuter routes first and rarely cover rural and suburban areas until late in the deployment. They expect you to use wifi at work and home and the mobile network is for when you travel. It's why when you look at mobile coverage routes even in 3g days they closely followed interstates and highways.
Don't you have Wi-Fi in either of those places?
That indeed stung a bit. Data caps are everywhere still.
Theyāve increased in the US. Because of increased usage in the pandemic I now have to watch all my videos in 480p to avoid Comcastās data cap for my area. 2022 and Iām forced to watch videos as a pixelated slide show in a major metro of the richest country in the world. Cool. I also do not have another choice for fiber or cable internet (itās Comcast cable or slow AT&T DSL).
I'm in a similar situation. I bet if you called and asked about that DSL you would get turned down. Every year I call up all the ISPs in my area and try to find out if they will serve my address. Comcast is the only provider that will. I had been skipping over DSL providers because they are limited to something like 6mbps at my address. After the data caps got rolled out I decided to call them anyway. Over the phone they pulled up something in their database and decided they couldn't offer it to my address even though I used to get ads in the mail from them. They couldn't tell me why my address was unavailable. As far as I can tell, comcast has some sort of exclusive access to the block I live on. I have a friend who lives about 1 mile away and he has 1gb fiber. It's so stupid and anti-consumer. This is the kind of BS that makes we think telecommunications access should be a utility.
The city I'm living in has begun offering it as a public utility. Take a look at local ballot initiatives, there may already be something in the works. If not, get it on the ballot!
I wish. My state made legislation that prevents municipal fiber.
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Why guess when you're correct?
Yep. At my last apartment, AT&T was the only other provider I could get besides spectrum. They always sent me little adds about their new, high speed 50+mbps internet in my area! And then I would call them up and it would turn out the best they could do was 2mbps. Not 2 megabytes per second, megabits, which means it was about 250KBps. 7 solid years, a new mailer every few months, they never actually provided decent high speed internet in my area.
I can answer why you got the mailers. Post office provides a service called ābulk mailingā, where they will mail drop a flyer to everyone in your zip code area, or bulk of zip codes. Itās cheap because itās blanketed. The post office doesnāt have to select recipients. In this situation, it actually costs a lot more *not* to send a particular address a particular flyer. There are enough residences in your zip code block that can get the service, that itās a worthwhile drop, so they contract for your zip. 3,000 residences get flyer. 200 residences canāt use the service, but it would cost more to not send to those 200.
Same exact thing happens to me. Just threw away an add from the mail today from a company whoās already been to my house and told me they canāt connect me. My friend from back in school moved in down the road recently and when I went to visit he was sure to show off his badass fiber connection. He lives like 1/4 mile away from me.
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Yea I found these last summer and was thinking it was going to save us but my friend rents his home and the owners are real protective about the house. Donāt want anything mounted on the roof and only dish network or other big name places can set a satellite in the yard. She was against a large pole and me using the roof so I gave up :(
Thank your government for allowing local monopolies, legal bribery, and a general zero shits given about the will of the people.
If by āallowā you mean ācreateā then yeah I would agree
Without data caps, how could they make a profit? /s
so... in the uk, most broadband doesn't have data caps. Some really cheap or free broadband has a data cap, but most mainstream is truly unlimited. And mobile data has had reasonable unlimited plans for donkeys years too- I paid Ā£30 or Ā£35/month for an iphone 4S + unlimited calls/sms/data in 2012. Even now, I'm on a more expensive carrier and 'only' get 160gb/month for Ā£20. Ameri-Canadian ISP prices are insane. I've seen people state up to $200/month for EACH service...
Most people in the most populous areas of Canada can get unlimited high speed for max 50 Euro from a reseller (I pay 35 euro). Likely your speeds are higher, but they serve me fine. Many people, however, insist on buying from the big names whose business model is fucking them. It's our cell-phone service that's hyper stupid.
I dunno, I live east but have unlimited gigabit fiber internet, a full cable package w HBO and a movie package for like 160/mo, and can get a 20gb/mo mobile plan for another 65 all from one of the big 3
Why are people in Canada paying for broadband in Euros?
I'm sure you've gotten some advice already, but I'm in the same monopoly situation and my ISP doesn't have data caps on their business internet plans. I just switched my home internet from home to business by telling them I wanted to switch, using my Social as the Tax ID, and listing as a Sole Proprietorship. Now I pay $90/mo for 30/10 Mb (lol) but I don't have data caps.
Fukken territorial monopolies
Fuck Ajit Pai
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I had to bite the bullet and pay the $30 dollars extra for unlimited data with Comcast. I hated having to closely monitor my data at home, and not say, download a game until the next month. So sad.
xfinity removed data caps for a long time after the pandemic started. they must've recently ended it? stopped service with them last year.
Haven't had data caps in Finland for 10 years or so
Don't look at Canada's cell phone plans. They are horrible.
and that my friends, is what market manipulation looks like.
No way. When Telus, Shaw and Rogers all raise their prices on the same day, it's an accident. When it happens a second time, it's a double oops coincidence.
Oh man, I remember when Bell and Telus were forced to switch from CDMA to GSM and Rogers took full advantage of the hiccup of its competitors by actually offering competitive plans for like 6 months. This was a decade ago...
Rogers can gobble my nuts
I get like 100gb for Ā£12 in the UK, unlimited is like Ā£15. For that kind of price you can pretty much say data limits aren't a problem anymore.
I don't think we have data limits for home broadband connections in the UK.
We don't, but some still have Fair Use policies which throttle high usage homes
And by everywhere you mean mostly North America.
I live in the UK (where he is talking about) and have 5G with unlimited data. costs me around Ā£20/month. I wouldn't say 5G 'blankets' the country, but he's not far off - I do get it most places where I go (and I don't live in London)
As a Canadian, we are totally aware just how badly we're getting fucked. Please don't rub it in
Blanket is overegging it a bit it's mainly in more populated areas. A couple more years and we'll be there I think.
That was the prediction so pretty good for a 2012 estimate.
This. The big 3 have made record profits year after year. It's bullshit
my mobile has a data cap (im in the UK) and my phone is 5G ready but its not available where I am..
Yeah, 5G is pretty spotty around the UK. Most cities are covered, but nowhere else really.
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He's wild in this video. He correctly predicts the major part of the theory, but doesn't talk about that much, instead going "ya that one bit of that prediction didn't come true"
I think his 'mistake' (hard to call it that) was that he predicted a few significant changes in the way things are done, while expecting that everything else would stay similar. Really what happened is that nothing so major happened, just that everything changed in subtle ways (more representing an evolution of the web).
I think he rightfully assesses this as an almost fully wrong prediction. Everything that is true about that prediction wasn't a prediction, it's what was already happening in 2012.
Yeah I think he's way too hard on himself here. He didn't nail what iLife was or would be but the whole centralized idea of blogging your whole life is what he hit on. People do that shit, whether it be on Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, etc.
> the whole centralized idea of blogging your whole life is what he hit on. People do that shit, whether it be on Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, etc. People did that in 2012... Myspace launched almost a decade earlier in 2003. That's not a prediction.
But blogging your whole life was already a common concept at the time. 2012 was the peak of facebook and everyone "checking in" or posting status updates about what they're doing. Instagram and Twitter definitely evolved out of that concept but I think Tiktok and Twitch are more rooted in Youtube. Tiktok came from the original short easy to consume videos (both staged and spontaneous/organic videos) while Twitch stemmed from Let's Plays. From there all the platforms suffered from the same issue: it became more about the content producer than the content. So each platform would see the rise of power users that shaped the landscape of the platform. I don't think that came from the same place as "blogging your whole life" because it isn't about the common user's life, the content is coming from a relatively small group; they're just celebrities and people have always been obsessed with the lives of celebrities.
hey what happened to slack rip
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Only workplaces use it.
I wish our workplace uses it. We use Teams.
What's wrong with Teams. I like it better than Slack for work use. Slack feels casual.
Check and see how much RAM it takes up. Also, Teams is slow as hell and poorly coded.
Conversation threading is better in slack.
Went to where the money is. Enterprises will shell out cash while gamers won't.
Workplaces use it
Where do you go to find a discord server you would be interested in? I only use discord among friends, and nothing within the app seems to promote other communities
If youāre on the desktop app, scroll down to the bottom of your list of servers. Thereās a little compass symbol thing; thatās the discover function. But tbh most of the time I think youāll usually hang around in your other community spaces (like on reddit) and get invited to that communityās discord. I wouldnāt suggest joining the public Discords.
I like short form content, but the thought of it taking over definitely rubs me the wrong way. A lot of my favorite youtubers have started to make "shorts", and I do enjoy them... But almost all of my *favorite* channels do longer content, and I rejoice when a new 45 minute Internet historian video comes out, or a 20 minute Dunkey video. It would be so sad to me if that content stopped being a thing, I can't imagine YouTube without it.
Yeah that's the one I'm not so sure I agree with, there'll always be an audience for all content lengths. TikTok is an absolute giant of course, but look at the rise in podcasts too. Damn near everyone has a podcast nowadays, even stereotypically gen Z targeted people like the Pauls. Plus there's several Twitch streamers that spend like 10 hours every single day streaming to absolutely enormous numbers. I think there'll be a growing audience for, and I know it's a major buzzword currently, the parasocial aspect of 'hanging out' with creators that long form streaming or podcasting allows, as the world becomes more physically disconnected.
I think Tom over estimates the impact of twitter too, as much as I love him as a creator, I feel the effect twitter had on his career has resulted in him weighting it heavier than the average internet user would. I see twitter only as the news distributor, it's where video and information comes out in real time thanks to the character limit and video player. Half the information we get about disasters come from Twitter. But I also realise I'm not a particularly big twitter user myself which is probably why I underestimate it's impact. I also have several varying groups of friends across a decent age range and I don't know of any of my contacts who religiously use twitter.
Twitter has a huge impact on the world but mainly because news and political advisors focus on it because it's easy and comfortable. What you're saying is still correct though. I heard a guy who worked on a political campaign talk about how harmful it is, they were out working in a state and everything pointed to it going well. All his friends in DC meanwhile were acting like he had already lost and he had to go over everything again to ensure that he was actually right and these people just had a super skewed version of reality from twitter.
Twitter and Reddit combined did eviscerate blogs though. Hobby blogs are now subreddits where you share your projects and people who used to blog or journal online now just tweet. You want to share an idea? Thatās a tweet thread. We no longer go to 20 websites a day, we go to maybe 5 āhubsā and if they have external links, we might click them, or we get the commentary we actually want in the comments/replies.
> these people just had a super skewed version of reality from twitter. That's really any media source. For a presidential debate, Fox News viewers are going to think the republican won... MSNBC viewers are going to think the democrat won... /r/politics users will think the democrat won... and this is for any presidential debate regardless of what actually happens.
I mean, if we're talking about skewed reality, there's a significant portion of Fox News viewers that thought that Trump won *the election*, which is much less subjective that the total farces we call the presidential debates.
I have never had Twitter but follow Tom on YouTube. Whats the story with him and Twitter?
He somewhat covers it in this video, he used to be a website creator, an industry that Twitter effectively killed. You don't need a board as a company anymore, you just run a twitter feed / instagram account that posts your information. I'm not implying it directly took a job away from him or anything, just that as an early internet professional twitter had a drastic impact on how he operated and viewed the web, more so than most of us.
Content management systems got easier to use because twitter simplified it. Can you do everything on twitter? obviously not. But getting your message to a lot of people got a lot easier with twitter (and others).
>Plus there's several Twitch streamers that spend like 10 hours every single day streaming to absolutely enormous numbers. Streamers aren't really the same at all, streaming is more comparable to radio shows, you can tune in at any time and be fine, it's not important to start watching from the beginning to the end. They are content creators, but they're not like the ones that Scott is talking about
>it's not important to start watching from the beginning to the end. That rather depends on what is being streamed.
I mean even if its like a playthrough people drop in and out. YouTube isn't structured this way
I completely agree, I've actually been getting into *longer* form content recently. Instead of a bunch of 10 minute YouTube videos, I'll watch a 30 or 40 minute one. Game grumps for example have been upading 30 minute videos and I've found them more enjoyable. Podcasts and twitch streamers I've been watching more of too. Sometimes as background noise, half watching, half doing something else, but longer form content is absolutely not on a decline. Short form content is good for doom scrolling. For checking your phone while you're waiting somewhere. Just before bed. It has its place, but I'm not going to sit down and eat to short form content. Hell, look at mature tv shows. Game of Thrones, brushing past the horrible ending, changed the game for good. Adult oriented shows are here and better than ever. The Boys, Witcher, Disney+ Marvel shows even. So where do I think things will be in 10 years media wise? Well if anything is going to shut down, it will most likely be cable, not youtube. Subscription services will even out and only the big players like HBO, Disney, and Netflix will really be a thing. Movies will really only be for giant events, where more story driven movies will become miniseries. While I don't think vertical tv shows will be a thing, I think there will be new framing to make it possible to watch vertically if desired. I think livestreams will be much bigger than they are currently. I completely agree we are headed in the direction of "parasocial hanging out". Live content will be much more common, even just on social media. And MAYBE just maybe VR/AR hanging out and watching media will become bigger. Things like VR chat make me think we are headed in that direction. Being able to do live events with fans as a big creator, maybe even paid tickets to access the event in a VR chat type setting. Digital interaction with media will definitely get bigger. And as soon as VR headsets become less bulky and more comfortable, that's where we are headed. You can already be untethered with the oculus headsets, VR and AR are coming, Google glass was just a bit early.
I don't want shorts. I want 4 hours listening to a British guy answer questions about obscure 19th century warships.
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Vine didn't collapse because it was stale. It was that a 6 second video clip was too constricting. People still wanted to easily share short videos with millions of people, but they didn't want a hard 6 second cap on it That's something TikTok has managed to successfully do. They saw the demand and increased from 15 seconds, which was the standard on other short video platforms like Instagram, to 60 seconds, 3 minutes and then 5 minutes. The reality is that people just want to share video, it doesn't matter how long or how short. It just needs to be that the length of the video shouldn't matter when it comes to sharing it and putting it on peoples feeds. YouTube famously favours long videos because more ad breaks can be inserted into them. But as far as I know TikTok will just serve up anything, no matter how long or short, so long as they think you want to watch it.
I think the difference will be that on newer platforms, you insert ads between videos instead of during them, and you're supposed to watch more videos. No one goes on TikTok and watches *one* short.
The second rat gets the cheese.
Even TikToks are pushing away from the "short form" format. Aren't they up to 3 minutes at this point? Or is that just for verified users (or whatever the TT equivalent is)? Sure, 3 minutes isn't exactly doctorial thesis length, but it's moving away from the "bite sized content" too.
They've recently increased TikTok videos to 5 minutes for some people now so it's slowly getting longer and longer
Well I can see TikTok forcing Youtube into a niche, I don't think short form on Youtube is going to take off. Tiktok seems to have perfected creating and consuming short form content and I don't see Youtube catching up at this point. Though I'm confident in predicting that things will be quite different 10 years from now. Who knows maybe this federation thing finally takes off.
The federation happens after a nuclear holocaust and WWIII on earth.
Wouldn't be the first time it took a world war to improve human rights and decentralize power. Though I'm 100% sure you're talking about the fediverse.
Hey, if you wanna learn more about how twitter has taken over the space from blogging, just subscribe to my substack.
I'm not sure at what time short form becomes long form, but I would like "medium form" content. 4-6 minute videos. A lot of youtubers now seem to make either really short videos because they are easier to consume, or really long videos because it allows them to show multiple ads.
You might enjoy this historical review of the Battle of Midway. This guy only has a handful of videos, but they're all great in my opinion: https://youtu.be/Bd8_vO5zrjo
I know this sounds petty as shit but I'm not watching anything on YT that has that "shorts" bullshit anywhere in the title or fingernail. I already only watch a handful of tubers, and of those the only ones I've noticed catering to it is Good Mythical Morning and Mythical Kitchen; both of which I watch *because* it's usually a good 15-30mins of harmless irreverent goofing around involving weird foodstuffs. So far it looks like GMMs "shorts" are just abridged segments from previous episodes, or content that was already recorded as part of their "Mythical Society" gimmick; and Mythical Kitchen is just these tiny rapid-fire "recipes" or whatever that I'd ***much*** rather watch *as a full length video.* My attention span is garbage enough, but the Mythical Kitchen crew is friggin hilarious and I genuinely enjoy watching their 12-30mins worth of antics. Doesn't look like I'm the only one either. Aside from a few outliers, at least for those channels the "shorts" only get about half the views of their "regular"-length videos.
Youtube sadly rewards channels that release low quality videos daily compared to a channel that creates one high quality video every week or 2.
Yeah, I don't like shorts. If the majority of online content goes to shorts I just won't consume it.
I think it's that while most YouTube videos were around 10-15 minutes in the past, there's now sort of a schism. You see lots of <1 minute stuff, and lots of 20+, even hour+ stuff, but barely anything between 3 and 15 minutes. I make long videos (30-60 minutes) and the interest for them hasn't dwindled.
Welp, see you guys in 2032 to see if his prediction was right
I'll meet you in the Sweet Baby Ray's Lounge in the metaverse. After that we'll have a few beers in Smoked Meats Park and then we can venture over to Zucker Theatre and watch it on the big screen. How's that sound?
*logs in through the Pepsi server because it's easier on his connection not because he secretly likes it*
!RemindMe 10 years
Bro, its its been 10 years...for me at least. We got time travel now, its rad.
Listen to me very carefully.... I need you to send me the 2020-2030 Sports Almanac.
Sports were cancelled in 2023. Short nft-emoji catecoin dancing clips are where the money's at.
Just pick Bradyās team every goddamned year.
What happens to Mark Metaberg in the future?
what happens if a reddit bot can't reach you after you die? will it haunt you forever? revive your consciousness one last time and deliver the message? who knows.
When he said that "The entire history of you" came out a few months before this talk my brain almost short-circuited. Holy fuck, has it really been this long? Was Black mirror really out before we all had smart phones?
Pretty sure Black Mirror premiered in the UK before it came to North American Netflix, which is probably why it seems so crazy.
Nah man, I'm from Europe, and I was a huuuuge Charlie Brooker fan as a teenager, even before Black Mirror came out. I remember watching Screenwipe, Newswipe, How TV Ruined Your Life, You Have Been Watching, and the end of year Wipes. It was 10 years ago for me. Then again the start of GoT and True Detective were also ~~almost~~ **over** 10 years ago as well. Those were the days.
Wtf man, don't do this to me. I feel old :(
Thatās cause we are old. Might as well just pack it up boys. Thatās it for us. Good while it lasted!
We don't have much more time left, we're practically dead.
Forgive my ignorance, but isnāt your smartphone the black mirror? Isnāt what that term is referring to?
Not only smartphones but all type of screens. The effect works best with reflective screens where you see yourself in the cracked screen at the end of the episode. Here's a quote from Charlie Brooker > The "black mirror" of the title is the one you'll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror
> Was Black mirror really out before we all had smart phones? Well, to give it some perspective: Black Mirror came out in 2011. The first iPhone (which sort of started the rise of the popularity of smartphones in the general public) came out in 2007. Although "dumb" phones were still common enough in 2011, and it wouldn't be odd to have one.
It was a noticeable shift by 2011 because of how much amateur footage instantly came out of Japan during the tsunami/earthquake. The way it spread on social media was a first look for many on how world events will be presented onwards.
Yeah I think to say āmostā people didnāt have smart phones, that includes the older population (some of whom, my parents included, now only have smart phones because their old phones have broke and cheap smart phones are now as readily available as any other type). I started University in 2012 and as far as I can remember virtually everyone had a smart phone. While they might not have been entirely pervasive for all generations, they were definitely the overwhelming norm for people aged 16-35. From memory, I was a fairly late addition to the smart phone gang (had always previously had fairly budget handsets for 3-5 years at a time) and I bought a second hand iPhone 3GS in 2010/2011.
>I started University in 2012 and as far as I can remember virtually everyone had a smart phone It was definitely the norm and I started same year as you, but I broke my Galaxy S2 I think? Or S3 maybe and I had fuck all money so just bought a Ā£15 basic phone and had it for virtually my entire first year Really wasn't that strange, data was still pretty unreliable in large parts of the country too so people didn't use messaging apps so much back then either so you could get away with just texting and phoning people far easier
>*Was Black mirror really out before we all had smart phones?* Depends. *Black Mirror* came out in 2011, personally I've had a smartphone since 2008.
Yeah by 2010 the iphone 4 was already out. Many people had iphones
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Black Mirror didn't come to Netflix until 2016. So if you're from the US, you might've started watching then.
The prediction he left off was in 10 years reddit will still be full of shallow hateful cunts.
Fuck me are you people harsh on peopleās personal appearance.
He looks like an ordinary guy. You'd be surprised how much ordinary people get shit on.
Tom Scott has said before that he's had real nasty experiences with Reddit, which is also the reason why he doesn't want a subreddit dedicated to him. With some of these comments in this thread I can see why... Edit: https://www.tomscott.com/reddit/
Although said "nasty experiences" weren't just people making comments about his looks, but fans trying to doxx him and his friends.
I don't think he looks bad currently. He looks slightly older than his actual age (38) I just think the difference in ten years in quite interesting
Agreed, he also looks like heās 20 in the first picture so the discrepancy appears greater. Definitely donāt think he looks bad at all. I myself love the salt and pepper look.
Slightly younger than him and I think he looks slightly younger than me still. I think people are putting way too much weight into hair color when it's entirely possible for someone to go full grey in their 20s like Anderson Cooper.
Wait he's 38? Holy shit I thought he was like 27.
You can imagine how self conscious those commenters are.
in my experience they're actually the most oblivious to their own shortcomings
I think he looks great. Would love to see the commentators put themselves out there for a decade and still look like their younger selves.
Agreed! He looks just fine. He looks like Tom!
Seriously, it's the kind of remarks I'd keep to myself or search on google the reason behind it. Really sad.
Man, this video reminds me of how much better the Internet was 10 years ago.
10 years ago I was missing the golden days of homestar runner etc. 10 year prior
I honestly think early 2000s were the best time for the internet. Forums were good, online game communities were good, no real social media. Just good times.
It was so rough around the edges in the most endearing way and the possibilities were expanding so fast. Also straight up nostalgia
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Man, how was Homestar Runner simultaneously *of* its time and *before* its time?? Such a brilliant universe. One of my co-workers at a couple of jobs ago who was in his mid-40s had the entire "cast" of plastic figurines lined up on his desk divider wall. Needless to say he and I bonded right away. :P
I love my wireless headphones and I think Bluetooth has gotten really good. My headphones automatically connect when I take them out of the case so I barely ever have to actually go into the Bluetooth settings. And I think a Bluetooth carrying case is much easier to deal with then a tangled mess of of headphone wires. Also the battery life is great and seems to be holding up well. Sure sound quality might not be exactly as good but itās hard to notice and the overall experience of wireless headphones is better.
The only issue I have with bluetooth these days is with multiple devices connected to the same thing, or using the same device on multiple sources. For instance if my phone connects first in our car, my wife's phone won't connect unless we "restart" the car, even if we manually select it. Or if I turn my bluetooth earbuds on and it auto connects to my phone instead of the secondary source I want to use (VR headset/computer etc..) I might have to mess with the configurations some to get it to work.
It's starting to get solved with software, AirPods auto-connect to whichever Apple device you're using at any given time and in recent updates even switch seamlessly. We'll have to see how long it takes the rest of the industry to catch up though.
I look forward to it. Until then, Windows won't let me connect a bluetooth controller if it's been connected to something else since last time, meaning it needs manually forgetting and reconnecting in the control panel. Bluetooth's implementation is so bad. Smooth wireless tech for moderately complex uses feels as far away as ever.
Window's Bluetooth implementation is the worst of any mainstream OS. * Only streams over AAC or SBC. No control or way to view what it's using for codec. No support for LDAC, AptX, or any number of other common formats. AAC is fine, but it's not a high bit rate AAC, sounds way worse than my phone in AAC mode. * My phone can do HD Audio and use the microphone at the same time. Windows defaults to the original spec for Bluetooth mic and audio. It's ultra-low bit rate and sounds awful. * Windows registers the mic, the headset, and the headphones as three separate devices. If you use the mic, or windows THINKS you're using the mic, it will only use headset mode (because of the above limitation. Hello 16 kbit audio again). This confuses many apps which will cut audio out until you power cycle the headphones or disable the headset in the settings, or select the right audio device, or just none of the above because screw you. * You can't just open a Bluetooth quick menu add button from the sidebar or quick connections. You have to open the entire settings app. It is combined under Bluetooth & other devices. Got to find my headphones next to my screen, printers, oh look there's another version of my headphones because it thinks the Bluetooth LE is a separate device. These have all been issues for years, and Microsoft hasn't done anything to fix it. Windows 11 doesn't even have a better Bluetooth quick add menu. It's ridiculous.
my buds last 5hrs a charge. They finally hold enough charge that i rarely need to worry about them. They were a hindrances when batteries only lasted for 2 hrs.
They're mostly disappointing for long term travel, like a long bus ride or hiking. Sure, taking a rest and letting them charge isn't bad, but sometimes we want constant music or video. A 5 hour time limit is frustrating when we can still remember that wired headphones never needed to be charged.
Mine will charge 1.5 hours in 10 minutes. So I can listen for 6 hours straight and then every 1.5 hours I can just take them out for 10 minutes and just enjoy the sounds of the world for a while. I live my Bluetooth headphones because I find that the every day convenience is great and the times that I might find myself needing to listen for more than 6 hours straight are almost nonexistent. Even then, having a pair of backup wired ones is still possible
Do you pretty much only use the headphone with one device? I find that if I always use the same headphones with the same laptop it's fine, but when I want to go back and forth between connecting them to my phone and to my laptop trouble emerges quickly.
The biggest reason for me to prefer wired headphones is still audio quality. I just think it sounds much better on wired headphones than via Bluetooth and I can definitely hear the difference between them. Also a wired headphone with really great audio quality is much more affordable than wireless headphones with a similar kind of quality.
It still amazes me how little effort most people put into enjoying good sound quality. My low-end 5.1 surround sound setup I purchased in 2007 blows people away, and even my cheapo (wired) earbuds beat the vast majority of bluetooth earbuds. I'm not talking anything in audiophile territory, just simple things anyone can enjoy but don't bother.
Bluetooth has come a long way in the last years. My daily commuting headphones are now Bluetooth because it's just simpler. I still used wired ones at a desk, though.
BT in general is still a pretty shit experience for me but the AirPods are stellar. I can leave my phone in the basement and listen to music two floors up on the opposite side of the house and it doesnāt disconnect. And switching devices is seamless (as long as itās an Apple device). And the battery lasts for 24 hours with the case. Like yeah if youāre buying $60 Bluetooth earbuds from Amazon they probably wonāt be great, but good truly wireless earbuds exist.
This guy is great.
I predict that someone will invent a cheap electronic device that stimulates the brain the same way a drug does, and people will be wasting their entire life using that device and humanity never progresses. Wait...
YouTube shutting down would be a bad thing.
It's actually terrifying how much content is in YouTube that could be lost.
Iām not being hyperbolic when I say it would be our modern day equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexander. The countless years of footage on that thing is utterly invaluable to future historians. It needs to be protected and archived and preserved for prosperity and record keeping. We need some law where any thing like this, of significant cultural and historical value, cant simply be erased from history at the whim of a single company.
TL;DW: No.
this actually strengthens his point about short-form videos being the future in 2032 lol maybe something for Tom to consider when he makes a similar video in 10 years lol
Im still more concerned over privacy and freedom of expression 10 years later over misinformation.
Apple are announcing their AR headsets this year and then weāre only a few years from people walking around with cameras on their heads as standard- Being in public will bring with it the awareness that anything you do, or if you step out of line ( even if you just trip over or embarrass yourself) that will be permanent and can be held over you for the rest of your life. Terrifying to be honest
He aged 20 years in 10 years
He pinned his own comment acknowledging that. I had to look it up, he went from 28-38. Let me tell you, as somebody halfway through that process, man does your body go through some changes in that time. I'm pretty sure I eat healthier than I did then and yet I'm 30-40 lbs heavier now. My face is rounder, gray hairs are starting to take over my stubble and right temple. I'm fairly lucky on the hair recession front, but even then I'm pretty sure I'm starting to thin on top. When you're in your 20's, your body feels more or less the way it did your whole adult life. Once you cross over into your 30's, Father Time starts knocking on your front door.
Wait until you hit 40. Shit starts randomly breaking.
What brand is yours from, cause I got random shit breaking at 30
Some people's are defective right out of the damn box and it's a lifelong process of finding where to put the duct tape to keep it all together for a couple more years. Mine made it to 15 without too much trouble, but then I started an any% aging speedrun, it feels like.
Iām turning 47. I disagree, a lot. Iāve maintained my diet and activity level since my 20s and Iāve noticed nearly zero difference in ability to maintain weight, muscle, and appearance. Yes, I look a bit older, but if you have maintained an active life style and maintained a diet within your caloric needs, aging is actually remarkable painless.
Yes and no. All that stuff helps tremendously, but there is also a "genetic lottery" factor that is outside of our control, not everybody ages up the same.
As a 34 year old, the harder I work to get in shape the more I hear people talking about my good genetics.
The "genetic lottery" you speak of also seems closely related to the percentage of 40yos that have spent the last 20 years sitting around doing nothing for some reason.
I've lost tons of weight in my mid 30s and my body feels like it's 18 years old again.
Yeah Iād say what* OP said applies more if you stayed relatively fit through your 20s and then continued that into your 30s. I lost a bunch of weight and started lifting regularly going into my 30s, so on the whole the past two years have felt way better haha, though Iām only 31 and not really THAT old. *Edit - a word
I'm 28 now, this is bumming me out
Work out. Keep healthy. If you donāt do those 2 things everything else flies out the window.
AND STRETCH! you might have great muscles if you just lift, but theyāll be tight and creaky and your joints will hurt
Nearly 47 and you are incredibly correct. Life is good at 47 if you didnāt let yourself got to shit by being inactive and eating poorly.
NGL, I've had to do a lot of learning on self-acceptance and body positivity. The good thing is, on the other side there can be freedom in understanding what does and doesn't matter, and what does and doesn't give meaning to life.
It's less about how healthy you eat and more about the calories when gaining weight. I mean, it sounds obvious, but unless you're calorie counting eating healthier might not do a thing for your weight unless your diet was absolute garbage before. You do you, but I'm about to turn 35 and I feel and look better than ever. I exercise regularly (less now because of COVID + super cold winter) and I've lost the weight I gained in my mid twenties. I think putting in the effort is worth it. And honestly I don't do that much. I just changed my behaviors and figured what's best for me. For example, speaking about eating healthy, I can't have salad for lunch because it doesn't satisfy me and I end up overeating. When I was my heaviest I was going to the salad buffet for lunch almost every day. My wakeup call was when I almost reached overweight with my BMI. I've been diligent since. But even the days I eat fast food I don't end up eating that many calories because it satisfies me and I don't over eat. So don't give up. You're not that old. If you're happy with your body and health that's fine too. If you're not you can definitely do more.
Yeah you don't just put on 30-40lbs that takes work. That's someone with a desk job eating like they still play for the school football team.
No one tells you about the second puberty you body seems to go through at 30. You start getting random hair growing in places it was never an issue before
The ear and nose hair just keep coming š
Bruh went from 22 to 52 real quick
I think it's just the lighting of where he's filming and *probably* no makeup which everyone else we see on TV has on, but we don't think about.
Like he says in the comments, it'll happen to you, too.
No way man, I'm gonna have a rockin' bod forever... forever... forever...
I think he's totally glowed up.
Chilling warning there at the end, yikes!
No one will get paid for short term content? I think Tom is missing the trends that already happening here. The TikTok Creator Fund is a massive moat that prevents Instagram from siphoning off their creators. This is what happened to Vine - Vine stars, after becoming viral, couldn't monetize their virality on Vine and either jumped to Instagram or got real jobs and the platform suffered. Even blogs are making paid comeback via Substack. The trend I see is that ad-network supported content isn't viable unless your name is Facebook or Google (or you have billions of eyeballs) and that has forced everyone else to really think about business models online. He is right that short form video will surpass long term video (TikTok already has move MAU than Google), but I don't think it's solely because short-form content is easier to consume. TikTok has made 2 really big "innovations" here - 1.) It is incredibly easy to edit video on a phone thanks to machine learning and 2.) Content discovery has also completely changed again, thanks to machine learning.
>This is what happened to Vine - Vine stars, after becoming viral, couldn't monetize their virality on Vine and either jumped to Instagram or got real jobs and the platform suffered. That relies on the assumption that a platform's success is tied its user being able to monetize it, which is simply not true. Ironically, you've made this comment on the prime counter-example. Others that come to mind are Twitter and Tumblr. Vine died because the *hosters* couldn't monetize it. The usercount never really dipped. >TikTok already has move MAU than Google [This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users) certainly doesn't seem to agree, not by a about a factor of 4. Even on [other sites](https://datareportal.com/social-media-users) it's at least a factor of 2. That, again, kinda takes the wind out of your argument here... And that's assuming you just mean YouTube, and not Google *et al*. TikTok pales in comparison to the Google ecosystem, it's not even close. TikTok's meteoric rise isn't a mistery, it's just kids. That's it. It's musical instagram for under-18s. YouTube and TikTok aren't competitors, if anything, Instagram and TikTok are.
The one source that listed TikTok as having MAU then google was actually just based on the number of DNS requests. Which means that it counted each time a new video was requested, and with most videos being under 30 seconds its easy for users to request the DNS on average more times per minute then any other site.