i dont blame nikita for doing what he's doing to the X algo when elon acquired twitter it was making 9 fig annual losses every major change since the acquisition has been done to improve the bottom line: - laying off workers - charging for X premium however the biggest piece of the puzzle has been to change the X business model tik tok and ig are cash cows making billions and it's clear that the mandate at X is to do the same thing this means becoming a video-first platform, and it's an open secret that the X algo already prefers videos over image and text but bigger changes were needed to get people to spend more time on X, that's where nikita comes in his mandate isn't to make X "better" for the existing set of users his mandate is to grow X like it's never grown before and that's exactly what he's doing the algo now favors the same type of brainrot content that tik tok and ig are filled with existing creators who refuse to play ball will keep getting nerfed until their community and reach dies the same thing happened on instagram in the past bottom line: i don't blame nikita he's doing exactly what he was hired to do but X will never be the same again, and "CT" will likely disperse over time the streamers will move to twitch the memers will return to 4chan the communities will return to their sub-reddits the technical folks will return to their academic circles (or god forbid bitcointalk) its the end of a beautiful era