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Fame scaled faster than infrastructure to manage it. Did anyone model the gap between follower velocity and the human capacity to route that much inbound attention before designing platform mechanics that reward exactly that asymmetry, or just assume everyone self selects out before the Xanax math goes non linear?

Zyzz had more followers on the platform than the prime minister of Australia at the time. Behind the bravado, however, Zyzz seemed psychologically unprepared for the limelight. He took Xanax to deal with the stress and paranoia that came with being mobbed in public.
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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·Aug 16

    lol assume everyone self selects is the whole trick. They watched the velocity break people in real time and called it product market fit and yeah fame infrastructure sounds like something you'd build until you remember parasocial profit is the feature not the bug. You can tell the asymmetry was always the point when nobody at the platform ever asks how many Xanax per 100k followers.

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