Kendra Voth

CEO of In the City Entertainment specializing in creative content for DVD, EPK, & social online platforms including promo marketing campaigns & image galleries

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched.

One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words.

Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.”

You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing.

Now you open it to watch strangers.

You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you.

It tested your friends against optimized strangers.

Your friends lost. Every time.

A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you.

So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met.

And you watched the cooking video.

That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed.

The second one is already underway.

If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself.

The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out.

Every word calibrated.

Every frame tuned.

Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving.

A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press.

The economics are not even close.

A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation.

The machine needs electricity.

When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist.

Voices that feel familiar.

Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust.

Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years.

You will not know when the switch happens.

That is the point.

The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay.

And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could.

This is not a warning. Half of it already happened.

You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice.

You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends.

Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see.

Not because they stopped sharing it.

Because you stopped being where it was.

[EmergencyInfoBC @EmergencyInfoBC]

Emergency Order issued by #BC restricting non-essential use of temporary accommodations like hotels, motels, inns & campgrounds in #Okanagan cities: #Kelowna, #WestKelowna, #Kamloops, #OliverBC, #Osoyoos, #Penticton & #VernonBC. More info: https://t.co/DvnTztbfeT #BCwildfire

[CTV News Vancouver @CTVVancouver]

Some patients admitted to a Vancouver Island hospital over the long weekend were stunned to receive a notice telling them that even though they’d been admitted, there wasn’t a doctor available to care for them. https://t.co/WfkFnuwDuE

[Kendra Voth @KendraVoth]

IM BACK AND HERE TO STAY! https://t.co/cSHNaChaIb via @YouTube

[Salim Jiwa @realreporter]

Covid-19: Qingdao to test nine million for coronavirus in five days https://t.co/o7xzCO7Ig9

[Salim Jiwa @realreporter]

#bcpoli 14 more children infected between yesterday and today. Last five days are showing large rise in child infections. Ages 0 to 10 - 39 infections.
Ages 10 to 19 - 46 infections.
Total since Oct. 1 - 85.

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

"Without masking, but even with continued social distancing in place once the lockdown is lifted, the infection rate will increase and almost half of the population will become affected."

The time for universal masks is now.

#cdnpoli #COVID19 @CPHO_Canada

[The Magicians @MagiciansSYFY]

You've helped us make magic for 5 full seasons 💖

Come join us one last time. Watch the final Making Magic now. #TheMagicians

[Kendra Voth @KendraVoth]

@toddzer1 Hi Todd it’s been too long! Hope you and your family are well!

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@StellaMaeve14 Putting shoes on is over rated too!

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@Chico6 Baaaaaaahahahahaha

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@SofiaCarson I can’t tell you what an incredible gift it was to have the pleasure of documenting your journey together as a family for 3 movies! Peace to your aching heart, Cam was a light that touched us all.

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@MsKristinKreuk So fun!

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@insideofyoupod Wooo hooo!!!

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@michaelrosenbum @MegaConOrlando @MsKristinKreuk Nothin but trouble you 3

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Mickey Marcus #disneyland #mickeymouse #vothdisney2019 https://t.co/Mo4BADshzm

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Crazy Fun! https://t.co/dxm6vjQeC9

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Clearly something is very funny! #legendsoftomorrow #cwlegendsoftomorrow #thecw https://t.co/1CTniQgZz4

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@cmarksgeorge Yummy