0:05 Welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys. Hey, did you guys know that there's a pretty big Instagram feature update that's just rolled out? >> Really? >> You get edit comments up to 15 minutes after you make it. >> Edit comments? So, you can edit other people's comments that are on your page? That'd be so sick. >> You other people? So, you can frame people? >> What? You called ME A N-WORD? >> NO, YOU GET EDIT your own comments. >> Ah. >> But, you have a 15-minute window to do it. >> I like that to help prevent people from getting less canceled or whatever, right? >> Well, also just like a like a typo. So, you don't have to delete the whole thing and redo it. >> Ah. >> Actually, it's just like you're you're responding really fast haha and you're trying to sound normal and then suddenly you like look like an idiot because yeah. So, it's like you could You guys ever correct it? >> That'll make the next guy who's responding to you look confused.
0:56 >> The next Oh, like right after they respond you can res- >> Yeah. Like if you if you drop some heat in the comment section and then all these people are coming after you and then you just change it to the opposite view. That'll be hilarious. And then they all just look nuts. >> Cuz that's the it's within a 15-minute window and it'll say edited if you edit. >> Yeah, but then it won't show Yeah, they won't know what it used to be. >> Yeah. >> Uh interesting. >> I think it's I mean, one it's great. I think the the the worst is when you are responding to something you're trying to sound articulate or intelligent and then you make a typo and then you you question whether or not you delete the whole thing or you care. >> Right, yeah. >> last time you actually wrote out a a big fat boy articulate one? >> It's been a minute. I think I used to like especially when you're younger you used to be a lot more like opinionated. >> Cuz I used to try to like I'm going to
1:46 set the record straight. >> Yeah. >> Realize no matter how deep you get someone could always write you're gay and then you're like ████ >> and you lose. So, I'm like I'm never going to write anything like that in the comment section again. Cuz it doesn't matter. >> Yeah. >> Those are all on like the freaking >> Next Shark >> Yeah, Next Shark ones, right? Baiting Next Sharkers are so easy. But, I don't do that that much no more. They don't post like articles that I can make fun of that much. But, I just like writing stuff for engagement, cuz I feel like it's going to be really fun to get people to talk. Mhm. That's a really good one. I I worry about how like I don't know who's real in comments anymore. >> Yeah, it's all bots, right? Yeah,
2:37 there's like a lot of weird, yeah. >> You don't even just know what you're you're just throwing into the fire. >> It's also like not an even playing field, because like the hottest takes are usually like ████ accounts with no photo, no profile, nothing. Even if that is a real guy, it's probably just some loser. So, you're never like going up to bat with someone with as much to lose as you. You know what I mean? Where there's like a real person with real life experiences. It's probably just someone that just doesn't know anything. >> Yeah, and there's just people with intentional troll accounts, too. So, they're just troll. >> Yeah, they're just trying to get attention. >> Yeah. >> That's the part that sucks. It's not like you're ending up with an against another blue check guy. You know what I mean? And you both have like I guess like a point of view from the same source, you know? It's very rare. >> Can I do chronological feed? Is that an option I can click? >> I don't think so. I think it's just algorithmic now.
3:28 >> so ████ annoying. You know what I'm still getting? April Fools' posts. >> Oh, that sucks. >> Cuz it's not chronological, right? I'm like, "Dude, stop showing me this ████ bullshit." >> Got to stop engaging with it so much. You're liking it. Damn it. Stop liking >> god. Damn. Or I'll see things I'm like, "What? That happened again?" And then I look at the date, it's like March 16th. I'm like, "What the hell are you showing that to me now? And you know what's weird? I feel like more than half of my feed is people I don't know. >> Yeah. It's like suggested posts. >> I want to see all people I follow, but then it's random people. >> You might be able to change that feature. You can snooze it, but you can't lose it, yeah. >> No loose, only snooze. >> you can only turn it off for a while. But it'll always revert to that. It sucks. >> David stuff. I remember one time I was like just curious about something and
4:18 went on his page and I'm like, what the ████ There's eight posts that he did that I have never seen. >> Yeah. That's like the 2 million subscribers of ours. >> And I'm like, aren't you like doesn't don't you know me and this guy are good friends? Like don't you want us to see each other's ████ What the ████ going on? >> Yeah. >> Why is your algorithm so ████ up? >> Among the new features, by the way, you can also schedule trial reels. You can carousel posts. >> Reorder? >> Yeah. >> After you post it? >> Yeah, so like you can probably turn a different one into your cover photo or like whatever the order is for the story, yeah. Um there's a built-in teleprompter for reels now. Uh users can add affiliate links to their reels, add friend new friends tab in reels highlights for content from friends. Which kind of to your point is much nicer too, so you're not randomly just
5:09 watching a bunch of ████ brain rot, right? You're actually at least seeing things that your friends are producing more. >> I would like to see that more. >> I like when they added the feature of you can add someone as a collab after. >> Oh, that's pretty cool. >> That's cool cuz Smack Smack was the one who told me like it's pretty handy when you um like if you're the primary content creator, you can be like well we'll just add you as a collab if this pops off. Rather than give you the pressure of like you have to have it on your feed from the cuz you don't know how it'll do, but she said in that world it's like really useful cuz you just go, all right, we'll do this video, I'll post it, if it does well, add a collab, if it doesn't, just leave it alone. That's pretty tight, yeah. >> That is good. Multiple collabs, too. You could do that with YouTube now, too. Do you know that? >> No. I don't know that. You collab with a video with another YouTube account?
5:59 >> Yeah. >> Oh, wow. Interesting. >> Does that mean like if we have a guest, we could put them on as a collab on their YouTube channel? >> I guess so, yeah. >> could tag them? >> Like as a long form or only for the shorts? >> Let me see. I did see a long form video where there were two people attached to the video. >> There you go. That's probably your answer. >> So the YouTube collaboration feature launched in late 2025 allows creators to officially add up to five partners to a video or short during the upload process in YouTube. >> Damn, that's crazy. >> During the upload process, okay. Which makes Honestly, we should just do that. Like if we have a specific guest on that have their own YouTube account and stuff and they want to like partner, I think that'd be great. >> Every time they're like, "No." >> Very likely. Very likely. >> We don't want it on our channel. >> Like, nah. >> No, no, no, just collab, but like just hide it on your feed. Don't You don't show it.
6:50 >> Hide it. >> I mean, it Collaborations was like the way back then when it wasn't even like an account thing official. It was just like the network and the culture of social media, right? >> featuring each other on each other. >> Yeah, and but it would actually work. Nowadays, I feel like, you know, you you collab, you bring people on, but like everybody maybe just does it so much that it's not it doesn't spike anything. >> Do you guys use Threads? >> Yeah. >> I don't. >> Smac uses Threads a lot. >> Really? More than Instagram? >> Let me put it this way. When when Threads had bonuses, we were making our mortgage on JUST HER THREADS. >> WHAT? >> JUST HER THREADS, BRO. >> How do you make money on Threads? >> Engagement. Engagement. >> So the more clicks and stuff? >> Yep. >> Oh, wow. Engagement like she was just engaging with other people? >> No, she's just like she'll just post stuff that obviously people are going to
7:40 comment. She'll just say like, "What's Why do you say this and Australians say that?" Whatever. And then obviously like people chime in or they just want to correct you or something. And then next thing you know, there's just a s███████ of ████ comments on something she wrote. >> Wow. >> And then during bonus season, they just her bonuses were maxed. >> Wow, cuz I remember when they were pushing reels like they were you could get money off of reels and now it's like nothing. >> It all just depends on bonuses. >> Right now they're doing a a huge content push for Facebook shorts or Facebook reels. >> Yeah. >> On Facebook? >> Should have posted that type of content specifically on the Facebook platform. >> That one's done for. No one's using Facebook no more. >> But that's why they offer money. It's like if they're offering you money, that means there's not enough people like using it. It's like Snapchat when they had their last ditch effort to pay creators to like post there. They were giving hell
8:30 of money to people. Dancers that we knew were making tons of money and then nothing. And then they just like that platform died again. And went back to being >> again? >> Yeah, when It just went back to being a ████ a >> Drug dealing site? >> And nude >> pornography. Yeah. >> Yeah, yeah. >> It's only for drug dealing and ████ selling. >> Yeah. >> Well, I think Twitter's back. >> X has been back. >> Yeah, X has been doing great. >> No, it's the especially with >> Make money on X? >> Yeah, people make money on X. Yeah. >> so. >> The only thing that sucks is when like same with X had the same problem, but Threads had the problem of when they were offering bonuses or when they or when people found out they could make money. >> Nobody's are their real thoughts. They're just thinking what's the most incendiary thing I could say >> to gain gain >> so everybody talks to me or everyone says something. It's not even real opinions. They're just like, "Oh, what's
9:21 the most like How can I stir ████ up today?" >> Engagement farming. >> Place to be. >> Yeah, it's not great. So, that's why after you know that, you just look through it and you're like, "This isn't even like None of this is real, you know?" Not that like that's every social media platform is going to have >> Then that means basically they need to not pay people to do those things so that it's not like a a money first >> That's to be argued. Yeah, it's a thing kind of like Snapchat. If you pay people to post, it doesn't mean >> Cuz it was the organic creators that weren't receiving money right away that were like the most influential for any type of like platform, right? >> Yeah, but I recently went and um I was on the plane in board. So, I was on Twitter and I follow like 400 people and almost every like prominent person from our era they're not even active on Twitter anymore. >> No, yeah, for sure. >> So, I was like, that's a whole era and
10:13 whole like group that's completely left and I'm thinking about that whole age range plus the fan base all left. Cuz like I have like 60K followers there that I'm not sure if they even >> It's super like politicized too, though. >> Yeah. >> So, >> They're probably like I don't want to do it. >> Yeah. >> No, and though if you really look at I mean, maybe this might just be my feed, but like everybody's thing that I look through and I want to see what people are saying in the comments, you still have to scroll past everybody advertising their OF. There's like 50 of those. >> Yeah. >> And then you have like more like clickbait ████ to get to what someone's really talking about. At least on my side. It could be different for everybody. >> Well, I'm the same way. I don't need I'm just trying to see what my friend said, but then there's someone that posts hot Latina thread and then you click that and I can't leave it.
11:03 >> So, what's the actual most like social media site you guys use for like social media like >> Instagram. >> Instagram, yeah. I think Instagram has become like our MySpace where you actually use it to like message people and do everything on. >> Oh, I also use Facebook a lot now because when you're part of Facebook groups, those things enter your normal feed. So, like if because of all the groups I'm part of with car stuff, if I just go to my normal feed, it'll be like, "Hey, somebody's selling this steering wheel for this Trans Am." And like right away, the algo's pretty smart and like, "Oh, you you looked stuff up a lot. Here it is, you know." Facebook got better for that reason. Or I follow a bunch of Facebook groups for like retro gaming and stuff, so it knows exactly what like obviously I want to see that, you know. Yeah, it's really good for that reason.
11:53 But I don't know about like if you're trying to connect with people, I think that that that day is gone. Like you just got to hit them up now. >> Phone number? >> Yeah. You just have to like ask them how they're doing cuz it's no longer integrated with like the people in your personal circle. It's more like, "Hey, this guy's going a little viral for something that you might like, you know." >> See my actual people that I know, I don't really see their posts at all. >> Those days are done, bro. >> Really? >> Yeah, not much. >> You might have to engage with them a lot. >> You do, yeah. >> Cuz if you comment and like and whatever the people that you follow a lot, they pop up the most for me. >> Yeah. I would also assume that it's because like we are content creators that our things are like consistently our world is with content creators, so there's just like created content. I assume that like if Joe Schmoe from like a high school that you you know you want to has a regular job, stayed in the city, and has XYZ friends, like they
12:44 might not necessarily have like a bunch of They might only have what they like. Right? Not a just bunch of like random fake ████ It's just It's like they really like cars and they really like retro games, so it's like only that, right? I assume that we're seeing everything all the time. We're like looking up ████ for like news and articles. We're looking up stuff for like different influencers and collaborating. We're going to like different events for this reason or following up with sport like It's just constantly chaos. >> algo like let's say you got a like one of my buddies who's a ████ dentist, he had a kid. I would have loved to know that, but what have I done lately to prove to the algorithm that I care about that? Have I been to his page? Have I messaged him? Not at all. I haven't interact with this guy in years. So it's hard to like for the algo to tell. >> Well that was the whole point of the social media. It's cuz you don't interact with them that you were trying to follow.
13:34 >> Yeah exactly. Yeah yeah yeah. It's like you're not going to see big news from people you're not talking to a lot unless a bunch of your mutual friends have commented congrats on something that you know it's a person you know. Then the algo goes, hey maybe you are part of this as well. So here's the news, you know. But it's never like you know it's not going to be like this natural organic thing anymore. >> But it is it is you're right. It's my fault because like let's say someone's pop like it's my friend's birthday and then like but then there's a golden retriever in a Superman outfit. I'm clicking that one. >> Yeah. So then it'll be like >> it's like that's what you're interested in. >> So you're you're not you're not pri- Yeah. Superman outfit. Dude, I'm going to click that one all day. >> It's like we're guilty for the things we're missing. You know what I mean? Like you can't really blame the platform as much. It's it's just going off your habits. >> And they know how to get you, dude.
14:25 >> Yeah, man. >> I'm clicking firebirds more than I am the ████ alumni from my high school. >> Yep.
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