{"id":23743,"date":"2026-03-24T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23743"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:14:09","slug":"sora-is-the-new-peach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/24\/sora-is-the-new-peach\/","title":{"rendered":"Sora is the new Peach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ten years ago (!), the embryonic social app <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peach_(social_network)\">Peach<\/a> suddenly blew up on the scene\u2014only to molder shortly thereafter. Adam Lisagor tartly predicted that outcome right after Peach debuted:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just joined Peach. Did you see that thing on Peach? Only teens use Peach these days. Nobody uses Peach anymore. Oh my god, remember Peach?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Lisagor (@adamlisagor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamlisagor\/status\/685650856881078272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of this upon hearing that OpenAI has bailed out on Sora, which they launched just a few months ago. In a way I&#8217;m not surprised\u2014check out how interest in the tech spiked &amp; then rapidly cratered\u2014except that just a couple of months ago <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/disney-openai-deal-200-characters-to-sora-video-invests-1-billion-1236606401\/\">Disney signed a billion-dollar deal to use it<\/a>. \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sora.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sora-1024x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sora-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sora-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sora-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sora-1536x757.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sora.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago (!), the embryonic social app Peach suddenly blew up on the scene\u2014only to molder shortly thereafter. Adam Lisagor tartly predicted that outcome right after Peach debuted: I just joined Peach. Did you see that thing on Peach? Only teens use Peach these days. Nobody uses Peach anymore. Oh my god, remember Peach? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23745,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions\/23745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}