IG

dtlabsa

>I have with Instagram. Yup. I bought one of my son's Christmas presents off an IG ad. It arrived on January 5th.

TotalDebt5868

From an investment lens, Meta’s moat is mainly 1) global network effects and distribution across FB/IG/WhatsApp, and 2) a performance ads engine increasingly enhanced by AI. Near term, ads remain the cash cow; mid term, WhatsApp Business Messaging (customer service, commerce, payments) is the most credible new revenue stream; long term, AI-native creation and tools can raise creator/merchant efficiency. Risks are real: AI ‘slop’ impacting authenticity, privacy/regulatory tightening, measurement and fake-accounts debates, and uncertain hardware/VR ROI. My takeaway: the ad engine is resilient, the network effects are strong; the thesis hinges on scaling WhatsApp monetization and using AI to lift ARPU rather than just burning on compute. If those execute, the valuation is defensible; if not, Meta reverts to single-engine ad cyclicality plus regulatory overhang.

LizardmanJoe

I have no plans of dating Sydney Sweeney, despite following her on IG.

phatelectribe

Or they’ll buy you like they did with IG, for a paltry $3bn and make it their core platform.

Sea-Dragonfruit2250

Yep. I stopped opening Tik Tok and IG for these exact reasons. I don’t want to have to analyze videos to determine what’s real vs. AI. The slop is real…

_Lucille_

There can be new players within a space but for the most part the existing social media networks have gotten to a "kind of too big too fall" situation. Unlike back when the internet is "still getting popular" around 15 or so years ago (digg/myspace days), smart phones has allowed people to just be connected all the time and created a situation where the giants of old are generally resilient. We see something like Twitter refusing to die, and the moment something big happens, like the Caracas attacks, people flood to twitter once again for their fix of the latest information. FB sort of have a niche of connecting people within their family/friend circles, LindedIn for professional relationships, IG for daily pics, Twitter for random news/"more public announcements", tiktok for short videos, etc. While there may be some cool new thing that rolls around, getting your boomer parents to swap is going to be hard, and people might not want to reorganize everything and like everything in 1 place.

easypiecy

Outside of things that are obvious like glasses, meta has been working on integrating their technology into more wearables. You prob think those are useless anyways since it's not as popular. But Meta came out and said the rayban glasses had a lot of demand already in the US. Other than that, they are also working on multimodal translation and audio, which is what you see on IG. They rolled some of that features out recently. And they are also working on media generation as well. It's not just frigging LLM where they failed at because they didnt have the talent in that area.

Beazt11123

u/rawj5561 Thanks for the response. This is very helpful. IG I didn't realize how much they were dependent on corn.

moorhound

METAs superpower is taking cool things and turning them to shit Instagram? Was the posh social media app. IG was for the rich and the cool kids. Meta bought it out and now it's shittier TikTok with more ads VR? Was a sweet new exciting technology. Meta bought out Oculus, flooded the field with their shit at a loss to stifle competition, and now most headsets are paperweights since they cyclicly brick them to sell new ones Zuck should've pulled a Myspace Tom and rose into the sunset before he spoiled and became a villain

N22-J

Why was both your fb and IG account suspended? What kind of fucked up thing did you say, to whom?

Tonyn15665

Agree. The only thing in mutual between left and right is that everyone hates meta but keep using the f out of their products (unfortunately me included, even tho I only use IG nowadays)

ThisIsMyRedditAcct20

Youngs are also getting off IG. Old people shop in stores. Meta has never figured out advertising.

shasta747

I originally saw the talk on IG and scrolled because I thought it was AI :))

BLESSED_NOT_PRESSED

It’s a bit late in the market to see any big swings especially on Friday. But I’m confident AAPL $255 Calls will print over the next 2-3 weeks. I post daily on my IG/Threads as well you can follow most my trades on there @gamma_sniper

IcyStatement4032

You’re calling IG-rated debt a bubble? 

Internal_Field5970

I got an ad for opendoor on IG today 

WedWealthist

Aritzia killed it ! The IG influencers and my wife always know ….

honkballs

It really depends on the use case. Yesterday I saw an interesting bar in an IG reel, so I pasted it in AI to find where it was, Gemini was totally wrong, twice... Chatgbt couldn't even access the URL, Grok got it exactly, first time.

bruceki

Trump cut the budget and staff of the SEC. I understood that to mean that there was no longer any more enforcement of securities laws or insider trading or much of anything else. I took it as confirmation when he fired the IG and appointed his own IG, who presumably bent the knee to him. there will be no SEC investigations of anything that involves people trump likes. Democrats or people who he dislikes can expect to be investigated, but someone doing crypto, like his son barron, or don jr, or random people making a few million dollars on stuff like LMT? It's open season. The wolves are guarding the sheep.

zzbzq

I actually think most people have this completely misunderstood. I think Netflix doesn’t need or want to add more stuff of what they’re already doing. Netflix is as big as you can get with basically 1 line item on your revenues. This is the “Facebook buys Instagram” moment. People thought FB were going to somehow integrate IG into the same product, same app, but really they wanted a whole separate product, with some shared pipelines behind the scenes for revenue. That was a stepping stone to diversification. Then 10 years later Meta literally has a hardware division. What I think is most valuable about WB, to Netflix, is not the competing streaming platform, or the IP, it’s anything else that isn’t outright dying. Netflix needs to be less of a single point of failure and become a bit broader as a conglomerate. WB is already pre-conglomerated. People are worried Netflix will kill theatrical releases but I think Netflix explicitly values is the distribution. Netflix = content, tiny advertising WB = content, advertising, distribution Netflix already has enough content. It’s not as good but they don’t need more of the only thing they have. What they don’t have is a diversified way to generate revenue off that content. So this would be more like if IG bought FB to get access to its advertising division.

AiLA_Singularity

IG is in close only in my account

Otherwise-Coyote6950

Who the hell has facebook in 2026? It's not 2010 anymore It's all about IG now

music_is_gud

it's just people voting in which direction. You can see it on IG.com

PutzOnDonleon

Judging by IG videos the world has turned into 3rd world shitholes flooded with poors.. take your pick

brchao

No one doubts FB and IG prints money and has growth potential as companies spend more money on sales and marketing during tough economic times. Problem here is 1) it is woefully behind in AI and spending a lot of money buying talent that's leading to internal strife and lack of productivity. Alex Wang may be an AI genius but is he cut out for corporate politics at a mega company like Meta. 2) Zuck reputation is still hurt by his virtual world debacle, billions of dollar wasted, almost nothing in return. Those glasses are cool but will never be a money maker I have some meta stock, holding on to it because I think it bottomed out. Next earnings better have some surprises (stock buy back, more cuts to Meta etc..).

JJRox189

Zuck doesn’t care as long as you keep IG installed.

IllBuyYourCar

I caught the attack last night live on IG as it unfolded, went to sleep before any confirmation of our involvement. (Was obvious) Woke up at 4am to breaking news that Maduro had been confirmed captured Absolutely insane news to wake up to

LasyKuuga

My IG hasnt said a single word about this war and is nothing but insta girls. Im so proud of my algo

someroastedbeef

IG weekend futures are down -.2 percent. for reference sake, IG weekend futures were down 4% when trump’s tariffs hit the market in april

OrdinaryMix4013

srsly one look at a OF girl on IG and your whole feed becomes a OF orgy its insane how aggressive the OF algo is on IG

cbusoh66

Yes. AI and AI slop will kill FB and IG. WhatsApp will survive but the cash cows are FB and Instagram. [Instagram's head says the aesthetic that helped the app become popular is dead — and AI helped kill it](https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-head-ai-images-polished-feed-dead-adam-mosseri-2026-1)

PaulxBrat

I doubt that major stocks brokers are here.. Saxo Markets, IG, Webull and so on won't bother being here.

Geblin_the_great

I think Bayer is also a contender for a place in this list ( they bought Monsanto) - oh and part of IG Farben in WO II. I would also consider general dynamics - one of the few companies that make cluster munition.

No_Feeling920

You forgot social media (META, especially IG), at least partially responsible for the relatively poor mental health among the young generation.

ShoddyBranch5756

I understand your perspective and respectfully agree with what you’re conveying. I’m trying to get a point across that 1.1 million dollars even after he’s taxed, is absolutely life changing money. The amount he will still net is far more than a lot of people make over 10 years. Also, I’m not sure what people consider “fuck you” money, but I think the current situation with social media, celebrities, fake IG stories/tik toks of people “selling” success, keeping up with the jones’s, etc, has people overwhelmingly believing that 5 million dollars isn’t enough, like the above comment^. I find that delusional, personally.

Bill7747

Boot Barn. I’m starting to see WAY more IG advertisements and a bunch of physical billboards. A couple new locations opened in my area in California seemingly out of nowhere. I’m guessing because the country-chic fashion is such a trend right now, but I bought a chunk of shares to see where it goes.

amanj41

LMAO wow hope you learned your lesson for today. I should have closed my 6875/6855 credit spread when I was up earlier today, got railed in the ass. I unlearned mine IG

Blumoon305

Anyone who wants to know my next move can message me on Instagram. I’m not selling anything and I’m not giving advice — I’ll simply share what I plan to do for the coming year. My name in IG: napoletano_a_miami https://www.instagram.com/napoletano_a_miami?igsh=bHR1bHV6MjN6ZGti&utm_source=qr

StormWhich5629

See ya when we start eating the rich then IG 🤷‍♂️

Icy-Butterscotch-206

Don’t know why you’re downvoted. What you said is objectively true. Zuck hasn’t pioneered anything of value in over a decade, highlighted by the massive failure that is metaverse. He’s made good acquisitions such as IG.

suiluhthrown78

IG 'Influencers' chase all the trendy stuff and 10x it (like regarded WSBers when they see a meme stock pump) which makes them look weird, ordinary people do the same but to a tasteful extent or not at all

Slightlybadpicks

Bruh this Latina working at the taco shop by my workplace is prettier than a lot of supposed IG baddies bruuuuhhh 😫😫😫😫

BLESSED_NOT_PRESSED

Agree for the most part - The reason I avoid trading in general unless small position sizes during EOY/ last week of the year is because institutions/hedge funds run the markets - retail buyers are the muscle. Hedge funds are dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars and it’s the last day before their books roll over onto 2026 tax returns. Depending on their financial situation and tax planning goals - during the last week you will see either 1. Tax Loss Harvesting - purposely selling to offset their gains to avoid higher taxes by being able to deduct losses. 2. Defer Gains/Losses - Either sell off and record a last minute loss for tax benefits if they would save money taking profits on their 2025 tax returns instead of 2026. I actually just posted on my day trading IG @gamma_sniper that this week may be become bloody🩸

OrdinaryReasonable63

Isn't that what white/female IG influencers go to Dubai for?

ShineCompetitive3377

Your grandad’s advice isn’t *bad*, but it’s very **context-dependent**. High-dividend stocks like **HSBC**, **Aviva**, **Rio Tinto**, **SSE** and **IG Group** make sense for someone retired who wants income and watches the portfolio closely. That doesn’t automatically make them ideal for someone saving for a house in \~5 years. For a house deposit, capital preservation matters a lot. Going heavy into individual stocks adds volatility right when you’ll *need* the money. Premium bonds + some equity exposure is boring, but boring works for short/medium-term goals. Also, avoiding indexes because of “slow growth” is a bit outdated — broad indexes have beaten most stock pickers over time, especially for people who don’t want to monitor markets daily. A mix of safer assets plus low-cost index funds usually fits your situation better than copying a retiree’s dividend portfolio.

howtoretireby40

I prob have too much in Reddit (+1000 shares) but just taking a step back and seeing how absolutely dog shit FB/IG/Threads, Twitter/X, and TikTok are makes it a no brainer for me. Genuinely ask yourself, where’s the best place on the internet to have a genuine conversation with humans without threat of being canceled? The answer is US’s 3rd most visited website and the world’s 6th most according to SemRush. Please don’t miss this train. Humans need interaction/community. It’s a necessity. If trends continue with real world communities getting decimated, Reddit’s going to be that place.

OrdinaryMix4013

must be fuking mentally draining to be a IG influenver LMAO

Internal_Field5970

People on IG upset the girl who supposed to look like she’s in high school has a ton of lip filler 

IllBuyYourCar

My family wants to act like I ignore them Bro yall send me 500 IG reels per day.. I don’t even look at the messages from my homies I go to work idk what everyone else doing smh

ImaginationIll4895

https://x.com/optionsbrit?s=21 UK Trader’s Guide: Best Platforms to Trade US Options + My $25K to $85K Story https://youtu.be/cSJHw_ytYHg Hopefully this helps people. FYI IG no longer offer tastytrade but as UK citizens we CAN trade with the US version and I do.

Internal_Field5970

Bullish on Reddit cuz I like it over IG cuz I would hate to see most peoples retarded faces that much Like imagine listening to 🌈 🐻 like pmotive or that borat sex robot guy and having to look at their retarded faces and receding hairlines on their android phones at the same time

eht_amgine_enihcam

Yeah, the concept of a perceptron is very very vaguely based on a neuron. How is brain biology going to combine with a NN past that? Like build a biological computer (people have tried)? You could have specialised hardware architecture for some efficiency gains IG. Or do you mean separation of function with agents modelling brain structure? Yes, if you want fast calcs you do parrallelization through matrixes and gpu's. If you want huge efficiency increases this will still be on an algorithmic level to vectorize more.

Internal_Field5970

Imagine sharing your retarded Robhinhood Wrapped trades on IG stories 

Econmajorhere

I see this way of thought on AR/VR and I genuinely don’t get it. When iPhone came out and FB was taking off, people immediately started their obsession with online presence. Fast forward 17 years and people are chronically online constantly flipping between 10 different apps to consume content and remain engaged. If it were socially acceptable, they would glue the phone to their face. This isn’t going away anytime soon. So now we are introducing Meta glasses that can display your content without lifting a phone. They can record without lifting your phone. Apple vision can embed widgets into your walls. As this tech improves further, it stands to reason it will become lighter, better displays, more processing and for the average person - nonstop display of content. You could potentially make one wall of your bedroom into IG, another into TikTok, another into X and so on. I feel like the people comprehend the obsessiveness with online consumption with phones but can’t foresee a future where your reading glasses could give you unlimited screen space. Why would someone be restricted to small displays when it becomes more convenient to view larger in AR/VR?

snake_case_captain

Sure ! I will help you write a quick rebuttal to a reddit commenter who noticed you wrote an entire bullshit post about some random bullshit stock, and then proceed to post bullshit comments written by the same ai model so you could invent an entire conversation : - no olboskoroshybrisate, I think you are wrong. Tell me IG you need to elaborate with some more bullshit DD or even some jokes!

Dr_Phil_Has_A_Huge_D

X is the last decent social. I hit IG for giggles, but, that's it.

openposter

worth looking up kevinlegend14 latest post comments on IG

Th3_Paradox

Give me the hot young thing, even tho she will spend 70% of her time on her phone checking IG. 

Internal_Field5970

 Just got an advertisement on IG of Cathie Wood next to a robot 

DDPStellar

To be honest with you. I don't suppot AI so yeah I don't wish these companies good. Why? Stealing human jobs, making people dumber (tiktok, IG with doomscrolling), etc.. but yeah I'm aware that AI excitment is not ready to vanish anytime soon.. I just think that the world shifting to AI is scary and ugly. I miss the 90's haha. ✌️

Fun_Compote3748

Hello I feel your pain,when I got scammed 200k I reported to the SEC but they did not only after meeting HELIANTOOL that was how I got back the money I thought I lost they’re on IG. 

Desperate-Kitchen514

Had similar issues, they’ll never refund you unless you get them reported directly to Heliantool on IG they returned everything back for me.

bigmeatbag

Just watched a META commercial where dude cyberstalks a coworker on FB and IG to figure out a secret Santa gift to give her. Creepy as fuck.

DARTHxNIHILUS

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hgreenblatt

Tos 2007, was founded by Sosnoff and Scott Sherdian. In 2014 or so they did it again with Tastytrade. Tasty is now owned by IG , I really doubt IG will keep it. Tasty is nice and a lot easier to create trades but I do not think the Analyze page works all that well, which is the high point of Tos. Another thing is if you follow the Tasty model and Sell Naked Options , Tasty requires about 20% more Buying Power than old stuffed shirt Schwab which Tom Sosnoff could never explain to me.

Lenscrafter

In the industry, free cash flow is defined as cash flow from operations minus capex. In their latest filing they are something like negative 13bn in free cash flow over the last twelve months. It’s a very large issue - this is not a typical fact pattern of an IG company. The reason their bonds have sold off to 85-90 (depending on which ones) is because people are assuming they will be downgraded Source, I used to work at s&p in ratings and have since been in credit on the street for over ten years.

single_B_bandit

> Portfolio trading is now roughly 10% of reported TRACE volume in US IG, and that shift has disproportionately benefited Tradeweb. Source about this having benefited disproportionately Tradeweb? Not saying you’re wrong, genuinely interested. I much prefer trading portfolios on BBG, and I would say by gut feeling I see more of them coming through BBG vs Tradeweb. But I don’t do US IG, and to be fair I haven’t really looked into the numbers as it doesn’t really affect me that much as I can receive portfolios through all three platforms. > MarketAxess is structurally exposed to credit only. Very true. I guess my experience is biased as I trade credit. I see your thesis in Tradeweb to be fair, if I was trading single stocks I would probably look into it more seriously.

single_B_bandit

> Portfolio trading is now roughly 10% of reported TRACE volume in US IG, and that shift has disproportionately benefited Tradeweb. Source about this having benefited disproportionately Tradeweb? Not saying you’re wrong, genuinely interested. I much prefer trading portfolios on BBG, and I would say by gut feeling I see more of them coming through BBG vs Tradeweb. But I don’t do US IG, and to be fair I haven’t really looked into the numbers as it doesn’t really affect me that much as I can receive portfolios through all three platforms. > MarketAxess is structurally exposed to credit only. Very true. I guess my experience is biased as I trade credit. I see your thesis in Tradeweb to be fair, if I was trading single stocks I would probably look into it more seriously.

schnexit

Fair point, competition is real. But I’d frame the dynamics a bit differently. MarketAxess monetised open trading very successfully, but that edge is narrowing. Algorithmic execution and auto-quoting are compressing its share in core credit, and portfolio trading was clearly underweighted for too long. Portfolio trading is now roughly 10% of reported TRACE volume in US IG, and that shift has disproportionately benefited Tradeweb. On top of that, MarketAxess is structurally exposed to credit only. No rates, no ETFs. That caps its ability to scale with broader electronification. Tradeweb’s advantage is breadth. Rates, ETFs, credit, repo. When clients push more flow electronically, Tradeweb captures it across asset classes and workflows. That matters for scale, data, and pricing power over time. Bloomberg is still a strong venue, but it’s no longer the default growth winner. Market share has clearly fragmented across Tradeweb, MarketAxess, ICE, and others. Bloomberg also has inherent tensions in its model: terminal revenues versus automation, trading fees versus data monetisation, neutrality versus control. Those conflicts slow decision-making. Tradeweb is simpler. One core objective: maximize electronic trading flow. In infrastructure businesses, focus plus scale usually wins.

Anxious_Aspect965

It’s just on the reels tab and showing up randomly, I’m not searching for this content on instagram, lol. It’s out of the ordinary for me to see this on my IG feed

Anxious_Aspect965

Bro I’ve never seen this many tech stock vids pushed on my feed though, I don’t really watch a lot of finance/investment shit on IG…it’s def not just my algorithm

Anxious_Aspect965

I’m getting SO many reels on IG pushed onto my feed about the Mag7 being in an AI bubble…makes me wonder if Meta is trying to get retail to panic dump so they can buy up more shares

Ok_Foot2530

Don’t have much to commespecifically on VCIT - but I think having some allocation to IG fixed income is good (I have some in mutual funds, locked in from 1 year ago and will continue holding them). On ex-China, I am super bullish on India and Vietnam, benefiting from supply chain moving away from China. But I am equally bullish on the China recovery play. It has been working through some tough resets amid external challenges over the last 3 years, and things are still cheap. There is a good chance that China may finally climb out of the deflationary mess / real estate correction and may even have its own ai renaissance next year. So purely for returns (political views aside), I would stay invested in China stocks. For Viet - honestly, there are not many good listed stocks. All are small and top ones are state-owned banks or real estate conglomerates (vinfast / vinhome, that may not be that good. Koreans / Japanese / Chinese actually run the businesses there. India is a macro story - super hard to pick and oligarchy / governance issues also exist (you can see the power at display when you watch the weddings of the top families there). I actually feel Chinese and Japanese companies are of better quality and valuation…

No-Debate4879

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DONNIENARC0

Initial reaction is basically, "why?" I have a hard time seeing anybody myself or anybody I know wanting to scroll IG with the clunkiness of a TV remote.

Happy_Discussion_536

What about them? Their debt is still IG and CDS only shows 1-2% probability of yearly default. With the printer OpenAI will have no problem getting an IPO or loans to fund their commitments.

99posse

Disclaimer: I work for a competitor, but my portfolio is more than 25% META, and I do not even have a FB/IG account. My rationale is that, unlike with some other Mag 7, the founder is still involved, aggressive, and heavily invested. He won't get everything right, but he can pivot (and has pivoted) very quickly and (more importantly) without excessive internal backlash. In a time of extreme uncertainty and rapid changes, it's a crucial survival skill that other companies do not necessarily have (it took Google years to catch up to OpenAI's ChatGPT, a technology that was essentially invented at Google and that Google owned years before OpenAI). In the Bay Area, Meta has been leading the changes, including being the first FANG to aggressively lay off post COVID. \> They might even be the company that doesn't make it through the AI bubble. Purely AI companies are likely the ones at risk of not making it; companies with "AI solutions" looking for a problem to solve. Meta has an independent business that heavily leverages AI without (for now) selling it directly. In fact, if Meta can successfully curb the AI slop/bots, I would make the case that social interactions with real humans could increase in popularity. I see lots of questions on Reddit that could be easily answered with a search, and when I ask why the poster didn't do that, a common answer is about the value of human interaction.

Difficult-Divide8236

I was in a whatsapp group that did this for “crypto futures”. I almost fell for it thinking what’s 500-1000$ to try it, but I didn’t. They had you download some obscure crypto trading app, put money in, watch it go up, pull some out and then get you to put in more, but then you can’t get it out. At least this is what I read about it. I never put money in it. The app was called TER and the group was called KC Dolan Investment Team. Got the link from Instagram. I think IG knows this stuff is fake and scams but they don’t care. They get paid. This is why people won’t trust Meta, I think. Betting on anything Meta does over like Apple or Google is a mistake. I have Meta stock but I trust Apple and Google much more and believe they will do much better, in the long run.

CHOMOOR

I think Facebook platform is not that popular anymore, for old Gen, there are running to Twitter, new Gen are in TK or SnapXt. IG still doing good as people love to show see pics more than letters. META will stay with us next 10 years and there fight to win, is the next generation. Personally i don't like Meta because is not neutral and has a clear bia. I like Reddit more

ProcedureHopeful2944

Sorry it was so long. Its not based on headlines. Its based ion my experience using FB for almost 20 years and IG for around 13, along with five years of buying Ads from them. I have an interest in anthropology/history. I see a change in mindset coming by many now that we've experienced the negative impact of social media - especially on kids. Yes, there are some good aspects of platforms but at what cost? Personally, I know how addicted I've become to it, lately finding myself less engaged in FB/IG and I don't think I'm alone

ProcedureHopeful2944

Ad costs increased, cost per click steadily rose in the few years I purchased Ads. I definitely saw a decrease in actual engagement - how long can that keep up? At some point a company looks at ROI. As a consumer, how much of your buying decisions are based upon your FB/IG stream?

Wenis_Aurelius

> But doesn't it seem like FB/IG has begun to run its course as far as people wanting to use it. They reported 26% growth in Q3 and their family of apps account for 90%+ of their revenue, so no, no it does not seem like that.

fortress_sf

Run by the saddest political simp out there. It’s just right wingers and grandma’s on FB. If it wasn’t for IG, they’d be dead. When the next presidency skins Trump, Zuckerberg is going to dye his hair pink and livestream karaoke of Chappelle Roan

Last_Cauliflower3357

I work in Corporate Banking. Doesn’t feel too surprising to me given current market conditions. They’re trying to tap the markets for a crazy amount of money (both of these issuances would be Top 5 ever in amount) and their outstanding bonds are performing dreadfully. Investors are probably up to their necks on Oracle bonds already and have serious concerns with concentration risk, noting no one wants to be saddled with billions of bonds that may tumble into the non-IG territory quite soon.

SST114

Right and like Meta and others did... do you think they're not going to scale cutting expenses long term? lol I remember ppl telling me not to buy Meta in the 22-23 correction cuz of the metaverse negavity and vibes and bashing Zuck among other analysis incl that it's a dino tech co with only IG hahaha... every tech co doing tech co stuff gets bashed by brains living in the 20th century and "value investors".

D1toD2

Not saying youre wrong but things have clearly shifted in regards to PE. Companies of old couldnt scale as efficiently as todays leaders. Moats were almost impossible to create. Today new income usually goes to the bottom line whereas you used to have to spend enormous amounts for b&m, physical expansion and advertising. Advertising still exists of course, but once you are large enough with a ‘hot’ product, word of mouth and moat come blazing. I dont have a crystal ball so I can only look at the last 15 years Apples grasp on its customers has been unshakable. How many iphone killer articles were written which were basically free press. AWS, Azure, GC, has a stronghold on its current customers they arent changing platforms. Instagram has become the yellow pages on steroids. It is your entire business profile for so many people. A bad IG can break you. The moats are just so powerful IMO the higher PEs are justified. SpaceX became a world internet provider without having to pass billions of miles of wires in the ground. Just startup cost is massive…but then? Thats the way I see AI, whichever form it takes.

powerboner

Just people 🤷🏽‍♂️. I always see the videos and I’m shocked people are still so stupid. Husbands getting arrested by the IRS bc their wives couldn’t stop flexing their life style. IG Models getting wet up, rappers on live stream etc etc.

FewNegotiation1101

Agreed but markets can stay irrational longer than a trader can stay solvent. There is the option to not play but odds can shift against speculation depending on the money markets i.e. gov bond yields and credit spreads within IG and HY.

jauch888888

Quick search on meta and : Meta does a lot more than just advertising. A few examples: AI infrastructure: Meta trains some of the largest open-source AI models (LLaMA) and builds its own AI supercomputers. Their AI research is actually industry-leading. Messaging ecosystem: WhatsApp + Messenger + Instagram DMs ≈ the largest private communication network on earth. WhatsApp Business is growing extremely fast and will likely be monetized more in the future. Social platforms: Instagram, Facebook, Threads, huge engagement, massive network effects. VR/AR (Reality Labs): Yes it’s expensive, but Meta is the market leader in VR hardware (Quest) and is building the foundation for future AR glasses. E-commerce tools: Shops on IG/Facebook, creator tools, payments inside WhatsApp in some regions. Advertising is the engine now, but Meta is clearly building multiple long-term tech pillars.

Caradoc729

I agree that they have a moat, IG and FB are hard to replace.

OrdinaryMix4013

#The before pregnancy trend on IG is..interesting.

LackToesToddlerAnts

The other platforms have a medium where it take up the whole screen. IG/TikTok posts take up the whole screen and they can slide in 2-3 ads every couple posts. Reddit is a forum at its core and the space is limited and even it’s not limited it’s very easy to scroll past it. I see ads every couple of posts and I don’t even notice when I scroll past it. Not to mention TikTok/Instagram/FB (older crowd) is super short content with high dopamine. People scroll endlessly. Reddit on the other hand doesn’t have the same attention hold. It’s one of the most visited but I’d very curious is on how long someone stays on there actively compared to other platforms.

IronyElSupremo

One interesting one, out of print, is an ‘80s personal finance book from Jane Bryant Quinn. It gets into stocks, bonds, commodities vs mutual funds, which are very similar to ETFs … but also into various small businesses, “direct investments” like farmland, etc.. A little dated as the GNMA fund isn’t as popular as a IG “core” bond ETF is now, but some really good history, easy way to see how funds work, etc..

Maximumm_Drawdowns

Drinking on a school night while planning my next trading moves that will almost surely lose money tomorrow while my mom sends me cat videos on IG. In other words, things are awesome 😎

Tostecles

[BRING BACK THE FUCKIN' QUAALUDES](https://youtu.be/IG2JF0P4GFA?si=kIwT91IhHETrZKXs)

IllBuyYourCar

Someone literally just made a post on main page as I was coming in here to post this below… $ONDS might be the play with their drone tech and secure networks. See quote from @ globalreconreport_ on IG, sourced from 2025 Defense Bill Section 1709 “*A major shift in the US drone market is coming up fast. A provision in last year's defense bill says that if no federal security agency completes a technical audit of DJl and Autel by December 23, the companies get pushed onto the FCC's "Covered List." That means no new imports, no new FCC certifications, and no new software updates for future models. Existing drones in service won't be confiscated, but the supply pipeline shuts off.”*

One-Signature-2706

Everything is way worse now than 6 years ago. The women look faker, "content" is shit with the barrage of shitty content on IG and tiktok, people don't go out as much as regularly, and people are working 2-3 jobs. And now, we have AI slop to deal with

AnythingSilent7005

Actually I manage paid media for a large division of a conglomorate and we use Snap and I personally find their audience segmentation and pixel audience to be the most accurate of all. It is a very cheap source of traffic but its 98% low quality IMO due to the user resentment for leaving the app if your trying to draw web traffic. Generally you will pay $20 a day for 2000 clicks, of those maybe 100 will end in a site visit and even then its way way way cheaper cost/click than FB/IG, Google or Linkedin. We use it for remarketing and it always brings great results for us.

Celac242

Just say porn man lol. Why do this on Reddit? Ppl have fully lost the plot of why people even do this type of self censorship which was to confuse AI image recognizers on IG etc

CoC_Axis_of_Evil

That perv zuck should just start his own OF as part of IG. What other purpose does it serve other than human trafficking