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Hashtag Holidays Are Busywork for Publicists

TikTok is a Mall and Detransitioners as a Media Identity

Grief and projection.

The Press vs. Social Media

Raking Muck in the Metaverse

When Lockdowns Are Over, Will There Be a Boom In Companies That Help Us Socially Reintegrate?

K-Pop is Sex Negative and the "Perpetual Now" of Being Online

Our Bodies, Our Digital Selves

Digital Blank Face and Invented Identities

The Most Famous Blogger in the World Started on Youse-net

Reading Pleasantville Against American History X

Remembering The Alphaville Herald

The Baroque Creoles of the Internet

Paul Skallas Might Not Be the Greatest Living Writer, But He's a Uniquely Digital Artist

Remember When Having an "Autistic Meltdown" Over World of Warcraft Was a Meme?

A critique of right wing art.

Stills From My Unreleased Short Film

Ugliness As Internet Shock Value

Good Artists, But Lindy Artists Steal

The Post-Pornographic Aesthetic

The First Wave of "iPad Kids" Were Born in the Early '90s

Reactionary Chic

The Early 2000s Hipster Freak Show Aesthetic

We're Loyal Fans, But Are We Loyal Friends?

The Relationship Between Pro-anorexia Communities and Early '00s Media

Is There a "Hot Take" Fandom?

What Is Right Wing Twitter Talking About When They Talk About "Building an Arts Scene"?

'90s Media Feels Haunted By the '50s and '60s

TikTok As a Form of Divination

Is Emily Mariko "Non-Pornographic Porn"?

Narratives Need Conflict In a Way That Real Life Doesn't

Developing Internet Overexposure Syndrome

Internet Culture Isn't Print Culture, It's Oral Culture

On A Long Enough Timescale, Everyone With a Platform Turns Into a Lolcow

The Internet and the Metaverse Are One in the Same

"Gross" Is the Worst Thing You Can Call a Woman

Pro-anorexia is the Nexus of All Online Communities

Stop Wanting to Have Sex

Affinity-based Identities

Revisiting the Anscombe Society

Is Sex "Morally Neutral" or Not?

Parallel -> Alternative -> Immersive

Catfishing As a Normie and Image Hoarding

The Road to Fandom

Why Won't Anyone Date Nicole Byer?

The Internet Makes Us All Master Pattern-Matchers

Angela Nagle on TFW no gf

Politics and Journalism Function Like Fandoms

Twitter's Dissident Right Is Following in the Footsteps of Tumblr SJWs

The Internet's Porous Boundaries Have Changed How We See Ourselves

What Are "Incel Chasers"?

Vice Turned Gonzo Journalism Into Clickbait

Male Pregnancy in Fandom and in the News

Falling In Love With Someone You've Only Met Online

It's Normal to "Catch Feelings," So Why Did We Pretend Like It Wasn't?

TikTok's Sexual Conservatives

How to Date Someone with an Overprotective Mom

Why Do I Love Mormons So Much?

Online Validation Is Porn for Women

Male-to-male Transsexuals

Opening Up Is Not a Reliable Indicator of Friendship

Technologically-Induced Rejection Sensitivity

Sex and Dating During the Pandemic

Afterglow

An Emotional History of the Internet

Dating as an Orthodox Jew

Spiderwebs

The Sunshine Skyway

The Internet is a Place

Does Body Count Matter?

Are the Values You Learned From the Internet Turning You into a LARPer?

The Coming Wave of Sex Negativity

Is "Sex Work" Glorified or Am I Up My Own Ass?

What Do Incels Get Wrong?

I'll Be a Millionaire By 40 and I'll Buy You a Nice House

When Did Hating Your Wife Become a Punchline?

If You Don't Have to Work, Should You?

Walking Around Downtown Boca

A Place with No Places

Sex and the City as Satire

You Can't Say That on TV

Optimization vs. Optionality in Dating

How to Date When You Have a "Past"

Everyone Talks About Dating But Nobody Talks About Romance

Are Men Allowed to Wait For Sex?

Sharing Your Trauma Online Isn't Narcissism, Even If It Isn't Helpful

When Is "Uncomfortable Sex" Just Rape?

Adults In Suspended Adolescence

The War on Boundaries

Why Does Everyone Suddenly Have BPD?

Can Women Be Romantically Rejected?

Another Girl, Another Planet

The Prince of Least Astonishment

How to Help the Victim of a Love Scam