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Subliminal Messaging: This YouTube Trend Promises Teens the Power of Self-Perfection
Subliminals call to mind new-agey fads of yore.
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Very Online: Twitter Has United Freelance Writers and Fair-Pay Advocates
“People are reading more content, and there are more freelancers, but there are fewer editors and staffers, and less money.”
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Not Your Crisis Daddy: Is Memeing Politicians Critique—or PR?
Memes stand apart in a range of political coverage that includes everything from established news reporting to satirical forums.
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Lose Yourself: The Complex, Comforting Allure of Not Being Seen
What does it mean to be able to reject the gaze before it even happens?
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Inside the House: “Mueller, She Wrote” Is Sounding the Alarm on Trump
This government is our government, and it’s up to us to save it.
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Digital Vitriol: White Supremacists Are Capitalizing on Our Reliance on Zoom
This recent wave of digital terrorism is a predictor of what’s to come.
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Very Online: “Karen” Isn’t a Slur—It’s a Critique of Entitled White Womanhood
A Karen’s racism is inextricable from her white womanhood.
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Playing through It: 9 Video Games for Anxious People (That Aren’t “Animal Crossing”)
I reached out to the people of Twitter to gauge the video games anxious people are playing.
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Celebrity Pandemic Posts Have Us Wondering—Do We Need Famous People?
Celebrities are really leaning into saccharine nonsense.
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Fake It Off: Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers Community and the Politics of Disbelief
The continued tracking of alleged over-the-top chronically ill influencers is part of an established cultural history of believing that chronically ill people, particularly women, are exaggerating or faking their illnesses for profit.
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