Speaker 1: So Instagram, I guess people were crashing and people were
Speaker 1: losing followers. And I saw one person, I think it
Speaker 1: was Perez Hilton said that he lost five thousand followers
Speaker 1: but they were all bots. And he said Instagram sucks anyway,
Speaker 1: and that TikTok is the only platform that's relevant, it's alive, etcetera.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. I think that all of
Speaker 1: the platforms have things that are positive and negative about them.
Speaker 1: For me, Twitters where you go to just like throw
Speaker 1: a comment, fire a shot, and get into a fist fight,
Speaker 1: a verbal fist fight with a bunch of people. Um.
Speaker 1: But you also can get like actual news on Twitter
Speaker 1: just look at someone's feed or CNNs feed and getting news.
Speaker 1: For me, Instagram is where you post fake still photographs
Speaker 1: of yourself looking perfect in a slower, more constipated um,
Speaker 1: slighter fashion um. But now with reels, I feel like
Speaker 1: they've come to play. For me, Instagram feels less of
Speaker 1: the wild wild West than TikTok, which feels like you're
Speaker 1: walking to a more rocan bizarre and shopping and you
Speaker 1: could do really great, but you could also lose a
Speaker 1: purse or you know, a hand, So that's how I
Speaker 1: feel about TikTok as far as losing followers. I was
Speaker 1: excited because I thought that the bots when you were
Speaker 1: losing bots, because a lot of people were losing followers,
Speaker 1: which translated into them being bots. I thought that all
Speaker 1: the boats were probably fake followers, and maybe they are,
Speaker 1: but I thought they were bought. I thought boats were bought,
Speaker 1: and maybe some of the bots are bought, because if
Speaker 1: you go on really famous people's instagrams, you see a
Speaker 1: lot of like you gotta try this new financial thing
Speaker 1: I did. I made five thousand dollars in two days,
Speaker 1: or viagra or diet pills, and there there's like it
Speaker 1: can be hundreds in a row, and they're sort of
Speaker 1: talking to each other. And I don't understand where all
Speaker 1: the bots come from and what they're doing. Besides if
Speaker 1: they're advertising something, I get it. But bot trolls to
Speaker 1: just troll you. What is their function? Who's hired them?
Speaker 1: Like there are people that will come on and troll
Speaker 1: me that have two followers and it's like a new
Speaker 1: It always as user one to three on TikTok or something,
Speaker 1: and I don't know where they are, and then you
Speaker 1: look and they have three followers, and they say the
Speaker 1: nastiest stuff. So it feels like if they say nasty stuff,
Speaker 1: it's coming from some being who wants to say something
Speaker 1: nasty to me. So I don't know where that. I
Speaker 1: don't know where that comes from. But Facebook is still
Speaker 1: the biggest of all of them, and Instagram is still next,
Speaker 1: I mean by follower users worldwide. So and Instagram is
Speaker 1: coming in. Instagram came in and knocked off Snapchat, which
Speaker 1: was massive at the time with stories. We all forget that.
Speaker 1: We all forget that that the biggest yogurt was fa
Speaker 1: j In Greek yogurt until Chobani came. We all forget that.
Speaker 1: You know, years ago, Steve's ice Cream was a little
Speaker 1: place putting ice cream on slabs in Great Neck and
Speaker 1: mixing top fixings into it until cold Stone Creamery. We
Speaker 1: all forget that there were ten thousand spinning places until
Speaker 1: soul Cycle came into the mix. So Instagram came in
Speaker 1: hot and became Snapchat with the stories, but they weren't
Speaker 1: doing it first. So Instagram is now coming for TikTok
Speaker 1: with reels. They have more money. They have more money,
Speaker 1: so let's not sleep on Instagram. That's all I have
Speaker 1: to say, but back to the original matter at hand,
Speaker 1: why can't Instagram have a breakdown and people with fake
Speaker 1: followers get outed? Because I thought that these bots meant
Speaker 1: that all the people with fake followers that they were
Speaker 1: being caught with their pants down, and that was rather
Speaker 1: exciting to me because I have seen so many articles
Speaker 1: in Harper's Bazaar and readers Digest in crepytable um outlets.
Speaker 1: That's say that so many people that have millions of followers,
Speaker 1: a massive percentage of them are not real. You can
Speaker 1: look this up at anytime, and there are companies that
Speaker 1: will go look it up. And now I have not
Speaker 1: I have bought followers to everybody does um Apparently who
Speaker 1: has a lot of followers people that are not that
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean they're bought because mine are not bought,
Speaker 1: but they could be boughts. I don't know where they
Speaker 1: come from. Someone else to educate me on that too,
Speaker 1: But apparently if someone is more than twenty five of
Speaker 1: their followers are not real, then they're bought. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a confusing thing, and I think I welcome
Speaker 1: Instagram flushing through people's bought followers. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: love to see one of these, one of these massive
Speaker 1: multibillion dollar platforms, come through and clean house properly. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna take out bots, take out bots. We want
Speaker 1: bots and bots gone. We want everything that's not legit
Speaker 1: because people what about just like moms that are posting
Speaker 1: pictures of their cats and dogs and Halloween costumes, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And you know, they don't even know that it's not
Speaker 1: even what I mean. If anybody can buy followers, the
Speaker 1: whole thing is is a scam. If anybody can buy followers,
Speaker 1: then the brands that are paying these famous people are
Speaker 1: paying for what's a scam. They're paying to promote their
Speaker 1: product two bots. And also these celebrities have gotten brand
Speaker 1: deals because of their followers. They've gotten more followers because
Speaker 1: of the media about their initial followers, so that's a
Speaker 1: scam too. It's just endless. Social media has so many
Speaker 1: places to scam, whether you're filtering your face to make
Speaker 1: you look like nothing you actually look like, whether you're
Speaker 1: pretending you have this following based on bots and bots,
Speaker 1: it's just all such a fucking scam, and it's so
Speaker 1: disheartening because people are just posting pictures of like costumes
Speaker 1: and their dogs and their life, wanting to just compete
Speaker 1: in this space that already isn't fair because celebrities run
Speaker 1: social media, so now it's even more not fair because
Speaker 1: you can just buy it. And I, you know, I
Speaker 1: understand exactly why people would buy followers. It's so easy,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I would have ten million followers
Speaker 1: if I had bought followers in the beginning and just thought,
Speaker 1: who fucking cares? Because there are articles everywhere no one cares.
Speaker 1: You get no credit for doing the right thing. I
Speaker 1: get no credit for not filtering my face and then
Speaker 1: you end up looking older than everybody. You get no
Speaker 1: credit for not buying followers because then you just like
Speaker 1: the loser who has you know, not a lot of followers.
Speaker 1: It's just historic. You get no credit for not wanting
Speaker 1: to post yourself in a fucking thong, because that's how
Speaker 1: you get followers is to be like sexualize everything and
Speaker 1: be like, look how good and sexy I look, and
Speaker 1: how fake I look. It's just all the circular reference
Speaker 1: of bullshit. So if I put a thong on and
Speaker 1: filter myself and get you know, fake gass and and
Speaker 1: and and have fake followers, then I'll be winning in
Speaker 1: the celebrity landscape. You can fucking keep it. All I'm
Speaker 1: saying is pull everyone's pants down. No filters, no fake followers,
Speaker 1: Let's fucking do real. Yesterday I went to my daughter's
Speaker 1: last volleyball game. She played the entire game. Um, it
Speaker 1: was at a it was an away game at another school,
Speaker 1: and Paul and I had an event for the Holocaust Museum,
Speaker 1: a charity event, and I told him he would go,
Speaker 1: we would go, and his parents were going. And it
Speaker 1: involves the hair and the makeup and the dress and
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And Brent's last volleyball game. And I
Speaker 1: go to all her games and it means something to her.
Speaker 1: And I made this rule that I would not miss
Speaker 1: the meaningful things. It kills me to miss them. I
Speaker 1: think those are really important things. Just the look on
Speaker 1: my daughter's face every time she did something great, she
Speaker 1: caught something like I would, you know, And you don't
Speaker 1: want to be on your phone. You want to be
Speaker 1: really engaged, because you see every time she passed a ball,
Speaker 1: or when she served perfectly, but then somebody else, one
Speaker 1: of her teammates, maybe didn't didn't nail it. And just
Speaker 1: so I know that even though they lost the point
Speaker 1: that I saw how well she did and I love
Speaker 1: and at the end it was like, I know, I
Speaker 1: saw everything. You killed it, you did well because she
Speaker 1: happened to have a really great game. Um, and I changed.
Speaker 1: And then the game was late. It was forty minutes.
Speaker 1: They started late because of the kids before. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna like carrying it up and go to the freaking
Speaker 1: other school, be like, we gotta get the game on
Speaker 1: the road. I have a charity event at Chippy Eye
Speaker 1: Ballroom where you know, rich Jewish people are, you know,
Speaker 1: donating to a very important cause. It just doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it's gonna land at the fucking volleyball game. And
Speaker 1: you know, in middle school. So I'm sweating. I'm freaking out.
Speaker 1: We've got to an inexpensive hotel room to change in
Speaker 1: in between the volleyball game and the thing, because I
Speaker 1: didn't want embarrass her and be like a black tie
Speaker 1: down in a sweaty hot middle school gymnasium. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: lo and behold, I'm like, we're not gonna make it.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna make it. We're not gonna make it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be late to the thing. Then the whole
Speaker 1: purpose of us going to this thing is defeated. Now
Speaker 1: we've wasted money, even though a little bit of money
Speaker 1: for that hotel room. And I'm like, what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do? So I'm like, we gotta change here. So
Speaker 1: all my clothes, my nice clothes, are in a shopping bag,
Speaker 1: like a paper shopping bag. Underwear bras that work with it,
Speaker 1: like a black one piece sheery bra. Thing like the
Speaker 1: full nine satin shoes, rhyin stone heels with the wrap
Speaker 1: around and you have to like unbuckle them. Like So
Speaker 1: now it's the end of the day in a in
Speaker 1: a middle school that I think might also be a
Speaker 1: high school, and I'm trying to find a bathroom, and
Speaker 1: there's no men's women there's no men's bathroom, there's no
Speaker 1: women's bathroom. There's like a human bathroom, just only a
Speaker 1: human bathroom. And soon they're gonna have to be called
Speaker 1: hugh women because you can't call it human. So just
Speaker 1: a every every being bathroom. So there's an every being bathroom.
Speaker 1: And it's just one bathroom in this whole hallway, and
Speaker 1: it's got all these stalls and here I and here,
Speaker 1: I am like it's this chiffon dress, and I'm changing
Speaker 1: from sweatpants and on one of the breaks when like
Speaker 1: there's a break, like a time out, that's when I'm
Speaker 1: running down the hall and paul And is still in
Speaker 1: the gymnasium, so there's still a presence from our family
Speaker 1: there to see Brant and I'm down the hall, my
Speaker 1: assistants helping me because she kept it. She came, she
Speaker 1: came back with my stuff, and I'm just I'm just disgusting.
Speaker 1: I'm on the floor, my dresses on the floor. I'm
Speaker 1: in a public bathroom at the end of a school
Speaker 1: day changing for a black tie event. Forget what I
Speaker 1: feel like in my sweaty face after being a sweaty
Speaker 1: gymnasium and the hair and like I just can never
Speaker 1: do it. So it's polished, Like I look at the
Speaker 1: celebrities and they show up on those red carpets and
Speaker 1: it's just polished, and mine's always like some pit stained
Speaker 1: mess where like I they may think I look fine,
Speaker 1: but I've been through a fucking war before I get there.
Speaker 1: But guess what, I didn't miss one minute of the game.
Speaker 1: I got my black tie down on and I was
Speaker 1: out the goddamn door. With my shopping bag filled with
Speaker 1: my sweatpants and made it. I did it for Brin
Speaker 1: and she saw me the entire time, and she saw
Speaker 1: at the end when I had like a gown on
Speaker 1: and with a sweater over trying to cover it up,
Speaker 1: and I think she really appreciated it. And we got
Speaker 1: to the event right on time, and it was an
Speaker 1: amazing cause. And like I did it, I just want
Speaker 1: to make a note about one thing that I do
Speaker 1: not approve of. So you know, we're in the land
Speaker 1: of everybody did a great job, and everybody's good and
Speaker 1: supporting them, and you know, they still realize they're not stupid.
Speaker 1: They realize if they're good, if they're bad, if they're
Speaker 1: on a team with people that are pulling the rest
Speaker 1: of the team down, if you know, they're just being
Speaker 1: given you know, the token ribbon or time playing because
Speaker 1: you know, it's middle school and we're not yet you know,
Speaker 1: being relentless in how cutthroat we are about sports. But
Speaker 1: you know, they have the cheers do it again, Britain,
Speaker 1: do it again, you know, after they after they serve,
Speaker 1: and they're so rara and everybody's so happy in between
Speaker 1: each thing. And yeah, but no, it's okay, did a
Speaker 1: great job, don't worry. And everybody's so supportive. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what's not supportive. The opposing team. Every single
Speaker 1: time they got a point, Every single time they got
Speaker 1: a point on the other team, it was a double
Speaker 1: a double clap, a double snap and under the knee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a clap, and so fine, if if we won the game,
Speaker 1: let's do a triple clap and under the thing. Great
Speaker 1: if if you know, if somebody served and both got
Speaker 1: in and that's a special occasion and both both serves
Speaker 1: got a point, and that's like a rock star. Okay,
Speaker 1: the double snap underneath whatever ra Ross is spoonba. Fine,
Speaker 1: every fucking time somebody got a point on the other team,
Speaker 1: our team doesn't do that. They just they got a
Speaker 1: point and yeah we got a point. Yeah, great job.
Speaker 1: You know, Linda wonderful, Like there's a fucking Linda in school.
Speaker 1: There's not. It's not a Linda or account, but Linda
Speaker 1: for the sake of this discussion. Okay, So the other team,
Speaker 1: every we got a point on you funk yourself. Like
Speaker 1: every time we we did it, we got it. We know,
Speaker 1: we can read, we see the board. You don't have
Speaker 1: to shove it up our ass and down our throat,
Speaker 1: like every time you get a point. I'm not for that.
Speaker 1: So if you work at a school, you're a parent,
Speaker 1: you have a team, you're a coach, whatever, you don't
Speaker 1: need to do it. You don't need to do a
Speaker 1: big fucking dance every time we're getting funked up. Tonight,
Speaker 1: we got a point, Like every time we don't just
Speaker 1: do it. A couple of dances goes a long way.
Speaker 1: You don't need to like troll. That's taunting and trolling.
Speaker 1: We were like, I was like ready to be in there,
Speaker 1: like enough, we get it. You got another point. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I don't like that.