How YouTube culture fueled the Dispo inferno

What happens when you mix edgelord behavior with venture capital

Mar 23, 2021

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Today let’s talk about the rapid unraveling of one of the year’s breakout social apps, and how the YouTuber culture that produced it made it it a questionable investment from the start.

The app now unraveling is Dispo, which finds its…

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