Jon Stewart On Facebook’s Billion Dollar Instagram Purchase: ‘Really Lame’

April 11, 2012Erik Kain

Daily Show host Jon Stewart is unimpressed with news that Facebook paid $1 billion for the mobile app, Instagram. After discovering that Instagram is a mobile app that makes your photos look like Polaroids, Stewart remarked, ”Wow, that’s really lame.” He continued: “A billion dollars of money? For a thing that kind of ruins your pictures?” […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.