Speaker 1: Pat On flex and Firms flex and Firms. This is
Speaker 1: the Flex and Firms catch up podcast.
Speaker 2: In its Flexing Firms on CATA. If you've ever found
Speaker 2: yourself in a bit of an Internet debacle and someone
Speaker 2: told you to touch grass, you might be entitled to compensation.
Speaker 2: That compensation is the joy of realizing that touching grass
Speaker 2: is the new black and optimism might be the thing
Speaker 2: that saves the Internet from itself and us. Listen to
Speaker 2: this from DTS Trends on TikTok in case.
Speaker 3: To me Si, Nihilistic attitudes in you to rise amongst
Speaker 3: gen z and leils. In fact, it's predicated to be
Speaker 3: one of the biggest strengths in the next year. So
Speaker 3: we continue to navigate through relentless crisis. However, a new
Speaker 3: wave of optimism is starting to emerge. Support it online
Speaker 3: by anti nihilism content and the search of year and posting.
Speaker 3: As we search for opportunities to reconnect with nature, third
Speaker 3: spaces to meet people, and rituals to center our spirits,
Speaker 3: we're witnessing a slow shift away from the domain and
Speaker 3: secular beliefs towards new ideologies. Seemed that feeling the spiritual
Speaker 3: void ooh.
Speaker 2: I had to recently google the definition of trend because
Speaker 2: I thought, are we just misusing it or you know
Speaker 2: or or is it just trends every day? So I
Speaker 2: googled it, and a trend is a general direction in
Speaker 2: which something is developing or changing. That makes sense, I
Speaker 2: can imagine. I talk a lot about pendulum swinging. We often,
Speaker 2: especially on the Internet, veer towards one extreme way of
Speaker 2: being and then we veer to the other end. So
Speaker 2: we might recall in twenty fourteen, it was really commonplace
Speaker 2: to get dressed up just to take an Instagram photo.
Speaker 2: You see really pretty ball, really pretty house, put on
Speaker 2: your best outfit, take a photo, and that was it.
Speaker 2: And people knew it was contrived, and that's what we
Speaker 2: liked about it. We liked the fact that it was
Speaker 2: a certain level of commitment and dedication to the content.
Speaker 2: Now fast forward twenty twenty three, and people are making
Speaker 2: tiktoks and becoming millionaires from their bed, crusty eyes, morning breath,
Speaker 2: just changing the game. There's seven figures in their account
Speaker 2: right now. And so you have to wonder where to
Speaker 2: from here, back from whence we came? What do you mean,
Speaker 2: are we going back to aesthetic why don't think we're
Speaker 2: going It's not we're going backward. We're going forwards, but
Speaker 2: the pendulum is swinging back in the other direction. Similarly
Speaker 2: with this optimism content, there was a time on the
Speaker 2: Internet where positivity was commonplace. Then we were told it
Speaker 2: was toxic to be that positive because we were really
Speaker 2: segregating ourselves from the reality of the world and it's
Speaker 2: not a positive place to be in, and that we
Speaker 2: suppress actual real narrative. So everyone got really really into
Speaker 2: the reality of the world and everyone's like, wait, the
Speaker 2: Internet's meant to be escapism. I don't want to do
Speaker 2: real world here. I don't want to be met with
Speaker 2: the horrors that are never ending, and so I feel
Speaker 2: like I feel like, for the most part, it's really
Speaker 2: hard to find the center place for everyone without coming
Speaker 2: across as so neutral that you don't have a point
Speaker 2: of difference, and so the swing is to ensure that
Speaker 2: change happens.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind. I just I like the optimism vibes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, optimism is good, but people know how to perform
Speaker 2: it in a way that's not really helpful. So it's
Speaker 2: like we like, I know a lot of people who
Speaker 2: are quite optimistic and quite happy, but they don't come
Speaker 2: across as sweet and saccharine, so it's not registering. I
Speaker 2: think when you say optimism on the internet, you know
Speaker 2: some person's going to be like guys.
Speaker 1: Like so much to be grateful phone, like when the
Speaker 1: world is falling apart like zig zep and it's like, okay, babes,
Speaker 1: wake up, Like we can be optimistic about the vood
Speaker 1: capasta arriving on time and being delicious, like there's something
Speaker 1: to say about that.
Speaker 2: But we can't deny reality in favor of optimism. I mean,
Speaker 2: all we can. You can, yeah, absolutely, you definitely can,
Speaker 2: but beware the consequences as we say. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Thank you your flexing firms. That's the
Speaker 2: optimism coming through.
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