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Very Online: Bean Dad Continues a Tradition of Performative Parenting
From Facebook to Twitter and beyond, parents dunk on their own children online.
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Wake–Up Call: The Red Pill Is Radicalizing Without Substance
Unchecked misogyny and white supremacy online has very real consequences.
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Cultivating Freedom: This Year, Cottagecore Exploded—But Excluded Black Women
Cottagecore is about freedom rather than loneliness.
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To Fandom, With Love: Fanfic Lets Us Imagine a Better World, Together
Historical, literary, and religious tradition show us the possibilities born from remoteness.
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Spiritual Currency: The Manifestation Grift Comes to Instagram
Manifestation influencers like to say that the only thing standing between a person and their dreams is mindset, but this principle only works for the select few who already hold the right cards.
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Very Online: Is “Owning the Libs” is More Important than Telling the Truth?
Racist white politicians are learning that they don’t have to lie well.
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Capturing Comfort in the Time of Instagram
Follow this heartwarming story about two people connecting over Instagram about their shared pain and their shared triumphs.
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How Sex Educator YouTube Went from Guiding Light to Worrisome Shadow
In 2016, YouTube was a space to learn any and everything about sex; maybe, in 2020, it simply isn’t anymore.
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Very Online: You Can’t Escape Death on TikTok
We’re still learning what to do with death, both online and off.
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Meme and My Squad: The Teens Tagging their Way to Queer Utopia
Memes can offer familiarity, freedom, and levity in a world that, more often than not, flattens and invalidates queer experience.
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