Where Can I Read Katherine Dee's Work?

Selected articles, podcast appearances, and anthropological field notes

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If you're a subscriber, you may already know that this blog is slightly different from other writers' blogs—it's more of a digital napkin-notebook-scrapbook than anything else.

While I occasionally post original articles here, it’s primarily been a place to host my podcast, alert readers about online and offline events, and jot down stray thoughts I want to keep from getting buried on Twitter.

Here’s a short summary of some recurring themes on this blog:

What Is Default Friend All About?

Want to check out my other writing? Below is an incomplete list of some of my other work:

Comment Magazine

• Computer Love

The Washington Examiner

• Shrinking Can’t Seem to Find Itself

• The Age of Abercrombie

• Aaron Carter, 1987-2022

• Milo Yiannopoulos and the Cost of Clout

• Indian Matchmaking and the Agony of Choice

• The Troubles with Belfast

• The Eyes of Tammy Faye and the America We’ve Lost

• Is Gen Z Ok?

• Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital

• Satire in the City

• Most Reporters Are Internet Culture Reporters Who Don’t Know It Yet

• Outerbanks Is a Pioneer in Moodboard TV

UnHerd

• Are You a Fictosexual?

• Inside Antinatalism

• Why Is Anime Having an Online Renaissance?

• Is AI Fueling Eating Disorder Content?

• A Dark Online Subculture Around Sandy Hook Is Growing

• Asia’s Influencer Farms Are Dystopic, But America Isn’t Much Better

• Mimics Are Taking Over TikTok

• Reddit’s Popularity is a Response to Media Failures

• Young People Won’t Revolt Over TikTok Ban

• New Research Finds Three Major Types of Femcel Frustration

• Did the DeSantis Campaign Know It Was Using a Nazi Symbol?

• Why Are Politicians Debating If Margot Robbie Is Mid?

• The Black Manosphere Got There Long Before Andrew Tate

• Is Pearl Davis the Female Andrew Tate?

• ‘Lord’ Miles Routledge and Internet Immortality

• Conservatives Are Too Obsessed with TikTok

• Could Chat-GPT Be Your New Girlfriend?

• Pity the Plight of the Internet Celebrity

• Matthew Perry’s Death Summons the Ghost of the Nineties

Air Mail

• The View from Here

Tablet

• The Crushing Loneliness of the Girlboss

• Better Living Through Body Surveillance

• The Post-Human Economy

• Among the Spiritual Psychotics

• Doom Sells: My Experience with Climate Alarmism

• The New Right Takes on Big Tech

• Blame Generation X

• Welcome to TikTok’s Anti-Feminist Influencers

• The Clairvoyance of TikTok

• Who Does Saudi Arabia Better: Google or Reddit?

• How to Get Ex-Communicated in 2023

• New Dating Apps All Have the Same Problem

• The Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual

• Chris Chan and the Theater of Suffering

• Reaping the Strange Fruits of Kiwi Farms

• Who’s Afraid of the Alex Jones Documentary?

• Lolcow Journalism

The Spectator

• Consider the Tradthot

• The Demise of Online Dating

• Welcome to the Weird World of Transfishing

• Yevgeny Prigozhin, the World’s Strangest Influencer

• The Strange Case of Brian Szasz, Stepson of a Titanic Submarine Billionaire

• Bama-rush Fails as Anti-Greek Life Propaganda

• Is Trans Trending Downward?

• Andrew Tate and the Making of an Internet Villain

• A Nation of Lone Wolves

• Witchcraft Is Not Gen Z’s New Religion

• Don’t Blame Victoria’s Secret

• Why Are Young Women Writing Homosexual Erotica About Men?

• Why Is OnlyFans Really Banning Porn?

The New Atlantis

• A Eulogy for Humdog

The American Conservative

• How Tumblr Transformed American Politics

Fairer Disputations

• Anti-Feminism Is Just Another Lifestyle Brand

• How Sexual Orientation Lost the “Sex”

Pirate Wires

• Who are the starseeds?

Compact

• The Real Tech Backlash

• The White-Girl Speed Party Crashes

• Why You’re Never Leaving Twitter

The Free Press

• The Humans Who Live As Lab Rats

RETURN

• How the Internet is Deleting the Past

• Doll Parts: The Evolution of Pro-Anorexia Subcultures

• Countries Without Borders

• Television Isn’t Dead — Yet

• You Haven’t Heard About the Latest Trend Because It’s Not One

• JT Leroy Never Existed, But He Lived

• Jezebel and the Demise of ‘Hot Mess Feminism’

• We’re Living in the Golden Age of the Freakshow

• The Depressing Truth Behind the Polyamory Trend

• Taylor Swift’s AI-porn Debacle Alters Our Reality

• What Our Culture Gets Wrong About Tradwives

• In Digital Warfare, the Meme is King

• Long Before TikTok, Emo Kids Drove Mental Health Fears

• How Baby Boomers Became Unlikely Digital Addicts

• Banning TikTok Raises Some Thorny Free Speech Issues

The American Mind

• Post-porn

• Birth Control-Pilled

• Big Censor

• Worse Than a Bumble, a Crime

Best of default.blog

A Cyberethnography of Imagination

The Nihilism of the Mass Shooter

What Is Default Friend All About?

Inside the Life of a Professional Patient

A Master List of Dating Advice

Have TikTok Aesthetics Replaced Subcultures?

The Infowars I Once Knew and Loved

Selected Podcast Appearances

Here are some podcast appearances (in descending order from least to most pregnant):

Selected Anthropological Field Notes and Internet Culture Interviews

This type of work is my favorite and something I’d like to emphasize more of as my writing career matures.

What is Fictosexuality?

My Husband Lives In Another Reality... Literally

Uglycel

"Friends in your head disorder."

A Conversation With a Young Woman In a Relationship with a Cartoon Character

Fictional Soul in a Human Body

Fear of a BlackPlanet.com

The Ghost of Adam Lanza, Pt. 1

You’re Going to Be In Adolescence Forever