Benjamin Kunkel on AI

Also cool that the US is now handing out O-1 visas—for "extraordinary" aliens—not to artists & scientists but to OnlyFans models & TikTok influencers, whose activities are of course exceptionally valuable from any humanistic viewpoint but don't need to be performed on US soil

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Why it worked

Contradicts something the audience already believes, which stops the scroll.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Opens on a negative, which reads as a warning and is harder to ignore than a claim.
Quotes someone directly, which makes the moment concrete rather than summarised.

The mechanics

Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: plain, matter-of-fact
Mechanisms: Pattern interrupt
Written for: People building with AI

Analysis by ViralLoop — not written by the original author.

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