This shit isn’t new, look

Vivek Ramaswamy investment

In May 2024, activist investor Vivek Ramaswamy acquired a 7.7% stake in BuzzFeed, making him the fourth-largest shareholder,[71] which he later increased to 8.37%.[72] Ramaswamy said that he thought the company was undervalued,[73] and that he wanted to shift the company’s political leanings[72] such as by hiring right-wing media personalities.[74]

scrapping the bit where some author says he has no power, its besides the point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed

i know we’re often told to ‘go where the people are’ and there are people on tiktok, but I feel like when the bolshevicks were writing about needing a newspaper, they didn’t mean publish an advertisement and accompanying article in the Economist

I’m probably preaching to the chior here but I’ve never used tiktok and I never will, I’ve deleted my twitter, facebook, discord, myspace, reddit, telegram, whathave you. I have an instagram I don’t check because so much of what happens locally is shared there (and nowhere else and I was getting real isolated and out of touch without being able to peep behind the walled garden. Instagram is the worst platform for anything aside from advertising.).

social media offers a distortion of reality, you have to actually talk to people, call them on the phone if you have to, call your parents, talk to them, don’t post a clapback dunking on them via tiktok.

i’m so tired.