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🔓 UPGRADE TO PREMIUM This is the free version of Garbage Day. Premium members get two more posts per week, including our deep-dive investigations and monthly trend reports. Just $5/month or $45/year for full access, our private Discord, and member events. What a bargain! Hit the button below to find out more. Netflix Has A Retention Problem Bloomberg published a pretty startling report yesterday revealing that several huge Netflix series are really struggling in their second season.

🔓 UPGRADE TO PREMIUM This is the free version of Garbage Day. Premium members get two more posts per week, including our deep-dive investigations and monthly trend reports. Just $5/month or $45/year for full access, our private Discord, and member events. What a bargain! Hit the button below to find out more.

How India’s “Cockroach Janta Party” Conquered Instagram —by Adam Bumas We normally send out our monthly Garbage Intelligence trend reports on the first Friday of every month. They’re usually for paying subscribers, but we’re sharing this story with our whole audience today because we’ve come across something more popular than any trend or post we’ve ever recorded. It’s smashed all of our records. It’s an AI-generated cockroach on Instagram.

🔓 UPGRADE TO PREMIUM This is the free version of Garbage Day. Premium members get two more posts per week, including our deep-dive investigations and monthly trend reports. Just $5/month or $45/year for full access, our private Discord, and member events. What a bargain! Hit the button below to find out more. Like Television, But Worse Here’s an odd thing thing that keeps happening. It seems like people are starting to ask more from the influencers on their feeds.

Last month, in a ceremony at the Greek embassy in Washington, the US government officially returned 26 smuggled ancient artifacts to their home country of Greece. And a funny thing happened a week afterward. The news of the ceremony was broken first, not by a news outlet or even an official government account, but by an anonymous shitposter on X called @UpdatingOnRome.

Waaaahooooooo! Here we go, people. It’s our last New York show on the books for the season. It’s on May 5th at 7:00pm at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And the special guest is… podcaster PJ Vogt, host of Search Engine. You can grab tickets to our May show by hitting the green button below. On December 31st, 2012 , I sat in a little conference room in Times Square with a team of bloggers and “live GIF’d” the New Year’s Eve ball dropping for Tumblr.

The Geese Psyop Is A Psyop Yesterday, WIREDpublished a story titled “The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop.” Just from the headline, I immediately knew it was about Chaotic Good Projects, a company I had looked into a few weeks ago after I stumbled across subtweets about them on X. Unlike WIRED, however, I ultimately held off on covering them because, well, I thought the company was full of shit. And I wanted some more time to figure out exactly how full of shit they were.

Waaaahooooooo! Here we go, people. It’s our last New York show on the books for the season. It’s on May 5th at 7:00pm at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And the special guest is… podcaster PJ Vogt, host of Search Engine. Huge thanks to our previous guests Katie Notopoulos, Akilah Hughes, and Don Lemon. And thank you to all of you who’ve come out to these. They’ve been such a blast and it’s been great getting to meet you all.

Garbage Day Live is back on April 7th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — and this time we have not one but two guests: Journalist Don Lemon and podcaster/comedian Akilah Hughes. It's going to be a strange and wonderful evening. And… TICKETS ARE MOVING FAST!!! If you want to join us for a weird and wonderful night, get your tickets below. As One Pivot To Video Ends, Another Is, Always, Right Around The Corner Every pivot to video has brought with it idiotic requirements for creators.

This week, Meta lost landmark cases in New Mexico and California and has to pay close to $400 million in damages across both.