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[๐ง In Case You Missed It] Clubhouse: The Rise and Quiet Fade of a Voice-First Dream
When everyone wanted to talk โ and then didnโt.

ํด๋ฝํ์ฐ์ค: ์์ฑ ์์
์ ๋ถ์๊ณผ ์กฐ์ฉํ ํด์ฅ
๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๋งํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ํ๋ ์๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ฌด๋ ๋งํ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ ์๊ฐ.
๐ Context is King
Clubhouse became the poster child of pandemic-era innovation.
In 2020, it offered connection without cameras, attracting celebrities, founders, and curious users alike.
ํด๋ฝํ์ฐ์ค๋ ํฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์๋์ ํ์ ์์ด์ฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค.
2020๋
, ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ ์์ด ์ํตํ ์ ์๋ ํ๋ซํผ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์์ ์ ๋ช
์ธ๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์
์, ์ผ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ฉ์๊น์ง ๋์ด๋ค์๋ค.
*Clubhouse?
Clubhouse is a voice-based social networking app launched in 2020.
Its invite-only model and drop-in audio rooms made it feel exclusive โ and exciting.
But as the world reopened, engagement dropped, and competitors like Twitter Spaces and Spotify Greenroom entered the scene.
ํด๋ฝํ์ฐ์ค๋ 2020๋
์ ์ถ์๋ ์์ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์์
๋คํธ์ํฌ ์ฑ์ด๋ค.
์ด๋์ ๋ก ์ด์๋๋ ๋๋กญ์ธ ์ค๋์ค๋ฃธ์ ๋น์์ ์ ์ ํ๊ณ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก์ง๋ง,
์ผ์์ด ํ๋ณต๋์ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋ ๊ธ๊ฐํ๊ณ , ํธ์ํฐ ์คํ์ด์ค์ ์คํฌํฐํ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋ฃธ ๋ฑ ๊ฒฝ์์๊ฐ ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค.
๐งฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)
1. Social Audio (์์
์ค๋์ค)
Live voice-based platforms that mimic spontaneous conversation.
์ค์๊ฐ ์์ฑ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ด์๋๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ์ฐํ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ํ๋ ํ๋ซํผ.
์์: Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Discord voice rooms
2. Invite-Only Model (์ด๋์ ๋ชจ๋ธ)
A system where only invited users can join, creating a sense of exclusivity.
๊ธฐ์กด ์ฌ์ฉ์์ ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ผ ๊ฐ์
ํ ์ ์์ด โํ์ ๋ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐโ๋ผ๋ ๋๋์ ์ค๋ค.
๐ฃ How They Talk About It
๐ drop-in audio
: ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋ ์ค์๊ฐ ์์ฑ ๋ํ
โ โDrop-in audio rooms felt spontaneous and real.โ
โ โ๋๋กญ์ธ ์ค๋์ค๋ฃธ์ ์ฆํฅ์ ์ด๊ณ ํ์ค๊ฐ ์์์ด์.โ
๐ invite-only
: ์ด๋์ ๋ก ์ด์๋๋
โ โIt was invite-only, which made it feel elite.โ
โ โ์ด๋์ ๋ผ์ ๋ ๊ณ ๊ธ์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ณด์์ฃ .โ
๐ audio fatigue
: ์์ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํผ๋ก๊ฐ
โ โI loved it at first, but the audio fatigue hit fast.โ
โ โ์ฒ์์ ์ข์๋๋ฐ ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ํผ๋ก๊ฐ ์ค๋๋ผ๊ณ ์.โ
๐ digital intimacy
: ๋์งํธ ์์ ์น๋ฐ๊ฐ
โ โThere was a strange kind of digital intimacy in those rooms.โ
โ โ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ๋ค ์์ ์ด์ํ๊ฒ๋ ๋์งํธ ์น๋ฐ๊ฐ์ด ์์์ด์.โ
๐ performative presence
: ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ
โ โIt became performative โ you had to be interesting all the time.โ
โ โ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์์ด ๋์ด์. ํญ์ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๊ฒ ๋งํด์ผ ํ์ฃ .โ
๐งญ Discourse Watch
๐บ๐ธ U.S.
U.S. tech media initially hailed Clubhouse as the next frontier in social communication.
But by late 2021, major coverage shifted to questions of sustainability, user fatigue, and moderation issues.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฌธ ๋งค์ฒด๋ค์ ํด๋ฝํ์ฐ์ค๋ฅผ โ์์
์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์
์ ๋ค์ ์งํโ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๋ค.
ํ์ง๋ง 2021๋
๋ง๋ถํฐ๋ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ํผ๋ก, ์ฝํ
์ธ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ด์๋ก ๊ด์ ์ด ์ ํ๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค.
๐ฐ๐ท Korea
In Korea, Clubhouse saw brief hype among professionals and influencers.
However, English-centric rooms and exclusivity limited wider adoption,
and attention quickly moved to local podcasting or audio platforms.
ํ๊ตญ์์ ํด๋ฝํ์ฐ์ค๊ฐ ์ ๋ฌธ์ง ์ข
์ฌ์์ ์ธํ๋ฃจ์ธ์๋ฅผ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ผ์์ ์ ํ์ ํ๋ค.
ํ์ง๋ง ์์ด ์ค์ฌ์ ๋ฐฉ ๊ตฌ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ด๋์ ์ด์์ด ๋์ค์ ํ์ฐ์ ๋ง์๊ณ ,
๊ด์ฌ์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๊ตญ๋ด ์ค๋์ค ํ๋ซํผ์ด๋ ํ์บ์คํธ๋ก ์ฎ๊ฒจ๊ฐ๋ค.
๐ฌ Outro
What was once the sound of the future now echoes like a memory.
Clubhouse gave us a voice โ but not always the energy to keep speaking.
ํ๋๋ ๋ฏธ๋์ ์๋ฆฌ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด, ์ด์ ๋ ํฌ๋ฏธํ ๋ฉ์๋ฆฌ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฆฐ๋ค.
ํด๋ฝํ์ฐ์ค๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ๋ผ ์๋์ง๋ ์๋์๋ค.
๐ April 22, 2021 โ Spotify launched its Greenroom
This came just as Clubhouse expanded to Android.
One arrived tired, the other too late.
2021๋
4์ 22์ผ โ ์คํฌํฐํ์ด๊ฐ Greenroom์ ์ถ์ํ๋ค.
์ด ์์ ์ ํด๋ฝํ์ฐ์ค๊ฐ ์๋๋ก์ด๋ ๋ฒ์ ์ ๋ด๋์ ์งํ์๋ค.
ํ๋๋ ์ง์ณ ์์๊ณ , ๋ค๋ฅธ ํ๋๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฆ์๋ค.
๐งพ Sources
The Rise and Fall of Clubhouse (Wired, 2023)
Clubhouseโs Boom Was Its Bust (The Verge, 2022)
What Happened to Clubhouse? (TechCrunch, 2023)
Clubhouse in Korea: Initial Hype and Barriers to Growth (ZDNet Korea, 2021)
Why the Invite-Only Clubhouse Went Quiet in Korea (Bloter, 2022)