This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Are People on LinkedIn DUMBER than people on X?" (posted 2025-09-03). It contains a single-speaker commentary comparing audiences and incentives on LinkedIn versus X (Twitter): arguing that people on X tend to be more entrepreneurial and willing to try new things, while LinkedIn users reflect different experience levels and corporate incentives. The speaker refers to a provocative claim about needing at least 100,000 followers to deserve leading marketing, notes differing reactions across platforms (including a "harsh truth" post that got ~500–600k views), and discusses why corporate employees may resist change.
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Are people on LinkedIn dumber than people on X? Okay, so that post again, if you don't have at least 100,000 followers, you don't deserve to lead marketing. On X, almost every single person agreed. Okay, behind the scenes when I'm talking to, let's say, you, or I'm talking to other CMOs, some CMOs, their companies doing, you know, hundreds of millions in revenue, right? They agreed with it as well. In fact, they said no, you need to have even more, you need to be good at multiple channels. Now I go on LinkedIn, everybody hates me, every single person hates me, right? And so the question is, is Is LinkedIn dumber? So I don't necessarily look at it as dumber. I just look at it as different experience levels and different incentives too, right? So to your point, people commenting when I put that post up on like harsh truth, most people are or all people are going to go back to the office. That one got I think five or six hundred thousand views on it, and everyone in there was like, "No, this is rage bait," whatever. But when you look at all the people that responded, they actually work at companies, right? So of course they're not going to say it's okay, right? And then they start fighting. And same thing, like when you talked about the people climbing the corporate ladder, they don't want to have to do more work, right? And I get it. That makes sense. Like maybe they're in a season where it's like, I don't want to have to learn this new stuff. I've already worked so hard and I get it. Now on the other side, when you look at X, to your point, you have a lot of people who are entrepreneurs, right? And so they are actually okay with having to deal with whatever change is going to happen because X is moving so quickly. I would, I tend to think that whoever's posting on X usually is someone that's trying to take responsibility for themselves and they're willing to try the new things, right? Not saying that LinkedIn people aren't, but X people are, I would say, more sovereign individuals, if that makes sense.
