I don't LOVE Garbage Day, but the fiat job forces me to read it. (I find it biased, but what's not?)

Anyway, I thought I'd share this excerpt from it before I head out and let y'all argue amongst yourselves about it:

"Clubhouse, the clear inspiration for Airchat, “blew up” (debatable) during the pandemic thanks to a couple key factors: People with email jobs couldn’t go outside — or, at least, couldn’t post about being outside. The crypto market was on a bull run so everyone was rich with fake money. And perhaps most crucially and most often overlooked, a lot of people decided to reinvent their lives and a big chunk of those people decided they were tech founders now. These people LARP as CEOs on TikTok podcasts and whine on X all day about tech reviewers like Marques Brownlee not respecting the “builder’s mindset”. And Clubhouse, and now Airchat, smartly realized that if you dangle the promise of talking to Andreessen Horowitz employees in front of them these rubes will use their dinner party simulation apps long enough to harvest their voices to train their AI models. It’s so bleak!

I’ve seen people on Airchat already talking about flying out to San Fransisco to meet all their new Airchat friends. Do not do this! You are you in an MLM for people who know what Github is, but don’t know how to use it. Get help!

But the real reason I think Airchat is the ultimate sign of the end of Web 2.0 is that every new app now (that isn’t run by Bytedance) launches by dropping these same weirdos into a new enclosure. It’s the same 250 cool product managers and white nationalist crypto backpack zoomers jumping from one friendship casino to another. These are emo night cruises for people who remember Klout. Look, I don’t know what the future will bring, but we are clearly done with whatever this is. There is — there has to be — something new coming. For the love of god, people. We can’t keep doing this."'

And they haven't even found US yet...