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I’m Katherine Dee. I’m an Internet culture reporter and ethnographer.

Welcome to my computer room—pull up a swivel-chair and surf awhile.

This blog is a living scrapbook of rabbit holes, mood swings, and subcultures. Expect:

  • Strolls through odd corners of the web

  • Case studies about how people use the Internet and digital subculture

  • Internet culture ephemera and media reviews

  • A sporadic advice column

  • Essays about fandom, media theory, and culture

And finally:

  • A weekly call-in show on Thursdays at 8:30 PM Eastern that’s an homage to old Coast to Coast AM

Reading default.blog should feel like opening ten windows in Netscape, then glancing at the clock to discover you’ve been online for four hours and have no idea where the time went.

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Internet ethnographer. I want to talk to you if you grew up with unrestricted access to the Internet. @default_friend of X (formerly Twitter). Columnist at Tablet & The Dispatch. Find me regularly in UnHerd, The Spectator, and here, on Substack.
Fandom native and former stan, investigating the history of fandom and the rise of the stan. Unofficial 1D historian. Cinephile.
Live in Ottawa, study McLuhan. concernednetizen.com