I have just found out about the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Actually that is incorrect I have just googled the “phenomenon where you hear something for the first time and then again” and found out that it is referred to as the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (for no particular reason in case you were wondering). The reason I was googling this idea was not just because I was wondering if someone had named this occurrence but because I today I heard about the Clubhouse for the first time and then listened to a podcast where they repeatedly mentioned it. Clubhouse is an exclusive audio social platform app, which you need to be invited to in order to part take in it. It’s basically an app where you can do call in radio sessions and then it deletes everything afterwards. I found it because of a Guardian article about its sudden popularity in China, but it has been around for a while and has already become quite problematic (Elon Musk is a fan).
I started connecting some dots in my head after reading this, because it was only last week that someone I was zooming with mentioned that they sometimes hung out in “online libraries”. These online libraries are literally just people studying in a zoom call together. These online libraries, Clubhouse and my sister’s latest obsessions of minecraft streamers and late night discord games all take place in virtual spaces, but live ones. Not like Reddit or Twitter, even though these can be consumed at some speed you still need to scroll and read to get through everything. But these new(-ish) spaces use audio and video. It seems less filtered and also less monitored.
So I did some googling and sure enough I found a MIT press article that talks exactly about how we might be moving back to using our phones for audio purposes. This is great news for me as this means only more technological advancements in audio text recording. Now to only makes sure my serves don’t fill up with White supremacists and/or very annoying misogynistic Elon Musk types.