Kyla Scanlon: evaluation

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…This is on Reels? Or you mean on TikTok? Oh, on both. Yes. I try not to actually use social media other than Twitter. I’m a Twitter power user or Twitter power scroller, I suppose. Yes, Reels is a little bit different because they have curated it to be more wholesome. You’re not constantly being advertised to, at least not as directly and as gimmicky as TikTok. I think that there’s more focus on the authentic creator. What’s nice about Instagram as a platform is that you have stories and that you have posts and you have reels, versus TikTok does have stories, but when you scroll on TikTok, you don’t really scroll for a single person. Instagram — you’re able to curate more of a personality because there’s a profile page. It’s not as algorithmic. There’s more intentionality, I think, with the platform design, versus TikTok just wants to keep you scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. I think Instagram — it seems to be okay if you stray from the path awhile. Say five or ten years from now, what do you think Reels will look like? Or what will it do, or how will it differ?…

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