Today, almost anybody who is creative is a «creator,» and social media is the conduit through which they can share their creations with a prospective audience. An audience that discovers and engages with art of all kinds on drip-fed social media feeds. Artists and craftspeople, meanwhile, are left hoping for their share of algorithmic success …
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‘Yogurt dipped Pringles’: A subreddit encouraging terrible home cooked meals is the last authentic place online to be yourself
So much of my social media feed is food. It’s home cooks whipping up «easy» recipes that look like they would take me two hours to complete. Perfectly-coiffed girls saunter off to pilates and sip on health-optimized smoothies. Mothers make ginormous batches of breakfast sandwiches for their hordes of children. All of it seems almost …
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Why Gen Z’s technique to ‘lock in’ their focus is no longer just a meme, but a necessity amidst a culture of constant distraction
When was the last time you had nothing to do? Most of us would have to take a walk down memory lane, way back to the days of our childhood when we had so few responsibilities that we helped worms cross the sidewalk on rainy days and collected funny-looking sticks to show our siblings. We …
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‘Dumbing It Down’: How brainrot memes have satisfied our craving for simplicity through Neanderthalic humor and escapism
Today’s young adults are the most highly-educated age group of all time, outperforming their parents and grandparents in the race for higher education and post-graduate studies. After years of studying, training our minds to expand with the vast knowledge of the entire human experience—including physics, biochemistry, ancient philosophy, and modern art—our brains are brimming with …
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‘This is a recession indicator’: Internet memes are helping society collectively process global crises
We’re not in a recession—yet. But with the state of things currently, we’re not too far off. When something crazy, like Ed Sheeran becoming cool again happens, that’s when you take a backseat and let the cards fall where they may. The end is nigh. Unnatural blondes letting their brunette roots show, DIY «barn yard» …
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We shouldn’t be seeing kids on social media, even those ones
We all likely have an image in our head of an evil «mommy vlogger» who uses her children as plot points, living vicariously through them in a vain effort to fulfill her own desire for stardom. Constantly pointing a camera in their faces, hoping that they’ll say something usable for social media views and engagement. …
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‘You’re so funny!’: How did the TikTok trend reliant on deep-seated trauma turn much-needed mental health conversations into a competition?
The jolly jesters who joke the most in their friend group often come from a place of having seen some stuff. Everyone goes through some monumental moment in their lives, more often traumatic than uplifting, but these moments help shape them into who they are. If the internet has proven anything, it’s that making light …
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‘Being alone is an antidote to loneliness’: Why we should all be going out by ourselves more
The world as we know it can be an isolating place, where we’re each secluded to our own internet bubbles. It’s easy for anyone to feel caught between the real world and the online world these days. We spend so much of our time online that it can start to feel more like home than …
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‘The social satirist of the moment’: How the trendy starter pack meme account is reviving hipsterism and digging the grave for internet humor
On the internet, marketing is king, and the users sell it best. Certain social media platforms would cease to exist without users shilling a melting pot of aspirational identities for users to choose from. We know by now that the purest form of internet marketing weaponizer is «the influencer«—it is right there in the name …
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Social Media Has Turned Into a Slop Factory, And I Hate That Nobody Cares
We have spent the past three years hearing that AI was going to revolutionize all of our lives, completely changing the trajectory of the future of each and every industry. While there is no doubt that AI has and will continue to bring positive changes to various aspects of our lives, it has yet to …
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