Even though they had been in kindergarten at best during Myspace’s glory days, the teens understood the shade they were throwing. “Becoming the next Myspace” was the bogeyman of all tech—the idea that you might be the best thing in the market, until the next best thing catches you off guard and ruins you. In the case of Myspace, the disruptor was Facebook. Paranoia over obsolescence festered at Facebook’s very core, and was the reason they’d bought Instagram and attempted to buy Snapchat in the first place.
