Social Media is a post apocalyptic wasteland - Error Code Show

0:00 Okay. So we're going to classify social media platforms as areas of the country. Okay. So Facebook has now become the villages in Florida. It is full of old people who are either having way too much fun or they're having some really bad problems and are yelling at the clouds. Okay. Facebook is the villages. Am I wrong? It's 100 % true. I agree. Okay. MySpace is that mall that you used to go to all the time that you drive by that's been bulldozed, right? That nobody has rebuilt that lot yet. Like, nobody could figure out what to do with it. And it's just an empty lot now. But every time you drive by it, you're like, remember that mall? That was cool. Blockbuster. Now, Blockbuster was way cooler than MySpace ever was. Whoa, MySpace was sick.

1:08 Blockbuster was sicker. I don't know. Facebook is a sentient age of a board. That's no. Sorry, if we're doing this now. Next door, I don't know how many of you are familiar with the next door app. Next door is a social media. It's a localized social media app where you can talk about the things that are happening in your neighborhood. And it is the sentient HOA board full of parents who are telling you exactly where you should be parking your car and why are there cops on that street and what's this new business and what are you doing? OK, and the kids, the kids are running around with no parents and and for shame. for shame okay that is what next door is okay chat you can go ahead and throw out your your social media apps that you want us to talk about um tiktok is vegas okay it is short it does it like The reason you can't get away from it is because everything's changing every 60 seconds and it's just sensory overload. OK, TikTok is the Las Vegas of social media apps. That's really what it is. Occasionally, you see boots and occasionally, apparently now you see boobs.

2:33 OK. Twitter, Twitter is probably the most difficult one. And yes, I still refuse to call it X. Right Elon can take a flying leap. It's still Twitter Yeah, still Twitter. Even they there's a documentary on Twitter and even the creators of Twitter still they said they still call it Twitter. Okay, Twitter Twitter is that that part of town? That's trying to always act like it's better than it is Right. They want to be the rich part of town. They want to be the really nice upscale area. So they plant these fancy trees and they do this stuff and they make these big, bright buildings and things like that. But in the building is a strip mall with a dollar general. OK, you're trying really hard. OK, you're trying really, really hard to be really nice and upscale and fancy and just failing at it. So I'm thinking like. Are you thinking, I don't know, awful. I'm thinking so for doing it in the Seattle world where we all live, it's federal way. Federal way always wants to be Bellevue, but it's not going to be Bellevue.

3:55 It's never going to be Bellevue, but it tries. It really wants to. It really wants to be good threads. I will tell you what threads is threads is the. is the the threads is more of a person than a place. No, actually, sorry. No, I can't. Was that Chuck E. Cheese threads, which is the one that Facebook came up with that was supposed to be the Twitter killer. Right. When when they switched over to X threads, now threads is not Kent. Threads is the church where everybody's trying to be really, really hip, but they're really just a bunch of whiny little goody two shoes. They're like, hey kids, are you down with J USES? Like they're the one that has the rock band for youth group rock band for youth group and they really want to be hip and they really want to be cool and they try to appeal to the high school kids and all the real hip people Right and you don't have to wear a suit to church and you can wear jeans and flip -flops or shorts and flip -flops But really you're still just a bunch of nerds Yeah Yeah, that sounds about right for this social media platform that I haven't really heard of Yeah, I I know I spelled Jesus wrong. Leave me alone chat Blue sky Blue sky is that small town In fact what blue sky is blue

5:27 sky is is cannon beach, Oregon, right? Right, but it's so tiny quaint and nobody really knows like unless you're from the Pacific Northwest nobody really knows about it right and it's cute it's nice right but it's never gonna be big you know and it's never gonna be the destination does that make sense yeah I haven't spent enough time on mastodon Discord is a junior high school boys locker room. I don't I don't know where everybody's kind of half edgy, but not really smart enough or cool enough to be really edgy.

6:16 I don't know because it's not as crazy as 4chan. Yeah, I would say high school locker room. Yeah. Yeah. Discord is a high school boys locker room. That's what it is. I'm on Blue Sky. Yep. Case in point. Blue Sky is Pawnee, Indiana. I've never been to Pawnee, Indiana, so you're going to have to take your word for it. Who else did we get there? Did we get anything else? Twitch. I will tell you exactly what Twitch is. Twitch is the high school cable access channel. High school cable access. Yeah, like we're any of those bigger high schools that have like a production program Right where the kids do like video announcements and school news and things like that. It's the high school internal TV station Okay, that's what twitch is And everybody on it things are cooler than they are I don't know I don't I would say like twitch is more like a robotics club of a high school. Okay. Snapchat. That's tough.

7:42 I don't have to think. Let me come back to Snapchat. Instagram. Gosh, there's so many social media. There is. This is this is also very revealing in how many social media platforms there are. Dear God. I like this one so Instagram Instagram I want to make it a place not because I keep coming of like a personification of Instagram, but I'm trying to make it a place I just think about that one too. There's gonna be place YouTube is any sci -fi show set in Vancouver Says the YouTube chat that That might be pretty close to the truth. That might be pretty close to it.

8:31 Truth social is Montgomery, Alabama. Oh, oh, is that the Donald Trump one? Yeah. That is Montgomery, Alabama. No, it's not Texas, because see, there's just enough like neat stuff in Texas where Texas is always Texas is never quite falling down a hole. Right. Because there's just enough cool shit in Texas to keep it from being a complete dumpster fire. To socials, Montgomery, Alabama. I will say a lot of people from the Pacific Northwest is currently relocating to Texas. Even today at work. Whole group of people were talking about legit moving to Texas. Up. Right. I think YouTube got it. Snapchat is Miami. No memories because that cocaine hit differently. And you're going to put some shit on there that you probably shouldn't have. You're from Florida. Would you would you agree that with that one? Snapchat is Miami.

9:41 Yeah. Yeah, that sounds about right. And I never I was never really on Snapchat. So so we're calling it now snapchat is Miami. So as somebody who's from Florida because I think I forget what Instagram is What is the place that everybody wants to act like is as cool as Miami, but isn't in, Florida As cool as like where they're like it's as cool as Miami and you're like no, it's not I would say like maybe to me. I would say Jacksonville. Okay Insta do people try and like act like it's kind of hip and cool and But really they're just fronting Yeah, okay Instagram is Jacksonville somebody in the chat. What about Tampa? What do we say about Tampa? Tampa No No Tampa did no Because like Tampa to me was like always like really nice because you have like the giant aquarium and then typically if you live in Tampa you work I believe you work in like Disney or something but yeah you know I don't I don't know like Tampa Tampa's pretty nice so all right so we're going with we're going with Jacksonville Jacksonville all right Instagram sorry you're Jacksonville

11:16 You got stuck there. Alright, that was actually kind of a fun little topic. I think we've run out of social media platforms to talk about for right now though. So what do you think? What do you think of our assigning these locations to different social media platforms? I think that's a funny concept. Let us know where you would put these places in the comments below.