16ish Listicles and Videos from 2016 – Andreessen Horowitz

There's a new era of social self-expression and mobile entertainment happening, enabled by always-on cameras, real-time computer vision, social media, and other tech. Several of these phenomena -- from emoji to stickers to filters to cultural memes -- emerged in Asia or were popularized in messaging apps there before they made their way into global products. Well, livestreaming is currently exploding in China. And while it's been around in the U.S. for years in various forms, it hasn't really taken off at mainstream scale… yet. So what can we learn as livestreaming evolves in China (and perhaps here too)?