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Being Bullied for Profit: The Man Who Lived as a Fictional Character for a Decade
In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into the world of internet personas, viral phenomena, and the shocking truth behind Nikocado Avocado's recent transformation. We explore the concept of disintermediated social interactions in the online world and how content creators like Nikocado capitalize on human psychology to build their audience.
Key topics covered:
* Nikocado Avocado's dramatic weight loss reveal and its implications
* The psychology behind parasocial relationships in the digital age
* How internet personalities craft their personas for maximum engagement
* The role of supernormal stimuli in online content creation
* Insights into Elon Musk's public persona and social media strategy
* Discussion on Trump's 2024 campaign and proposed Government Efficiency Commission
* Analysis of public misconceptions about demographic statistics
* Personal anecdotes and insights from the hosts' experiences as content creators
Whether you're a content creator, a social media enthusiast, or simply curious about the psychology behind internet fame, this video offers valuable insights into the complex world of online personas and audience engagement.
[00:00:00] the online environment has become a disintermediated set of social interactions in which I have a conversation with you, the audience, while you lose the interactive portion of the conversation, what you gain is the ability to, instead of being limited by the types of people you could actually get to spend time conversing with you, you can get anyone to converse with you. So I'll explain this using a porn analogy, right? In the real world, you are limited to sexual partners, like you would have a conversation partner, who would actually deign to have sex with you.
But what we need to talk about here is the role that Nick Avocado ended up playing in this disintermediated social contract. He had become, for a lot of the internet, that fat, pathetic kid. Yeah. You engage with him for the emotional context you get for picking on the fat, pathetic kid [00:01:00] in school. He filled that niche.
Speaker 7: Stupid noodles!
He filled
that niche and he had been saying for years that when he turned 30, he was gonna lose all the weight and then just go back to a normal life,
So I am
The point being is that Nick Acato, Avocado, people should have known this about him. This guy went to Juilliard.
Speaker 12: I got a full ride scholarship to my school. Could you, could you show us? The Juilliard School .
He, he was a concert level violinist. No way.
Speaker 13: A YouTuber named Violin Mechanic also watched all of Nick's violin videos, concluding he was near professional.
It goes to show though, there's, what are the career prospects?
Well, and that's the point to all of this. This was an incredibly talented actor, a diligent individual who, Understood the new social contract of the internet [00:02:00] and used it to make enough money that he never needed to do anything again by playing the fat kid
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Hello, Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. Today. We are going to be discussing a number of recent viral online phenomenon and moments that I think are you know, there was a post Elon had not long ago when he's like, when you are trying to determine between multiple things happening on the world stage, what would be the most interesting thing to happen?
And that's the one that's going to happen. And he's like. When people were discussing Elon buying Twitter, it was like, is that going to happen? Will it be more interesting if it happens? So yes. Is Trump going to win the first election cycle? Well, I guess it'd be more interesting if it did. So yes. You know, like, is, is Biden going to randomly drop out and instead of hosting a primary, they're just going
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