Alex Dobrenko

Growing up in the 1990s, before the much anticipated ‘digital switch over’ on the TV networks (perhaps a comparable moment in digital history to this one), it was a famous tidbit of British culture to note how there were often local power cuts at 7.45pm. These small power outages were caused when “Coronation Street” took an ad break, and Brits... See more

Taking the leap is not some irrational act that is driven by the passions. When you understand the asymmetrical nature of manageable concerns vs. unimaginable benefits, taking the leap is no longer an emotional jump, but a logical next step toward the life you want to lead.

“I would see other people’s art on social media, even if it wasn’t something that I wanted to make, and think, damn, I should have done that ,” he says. “I realised instead of judging, I can just DM them and tell them their work is beautiful. Anytime I find myself comparing myself to others, I remind myself that this person is just like me.” We... See more

Speaking with friends my age, usually the ones who were equally unathletic and unpopular and thus inundated with the content of the grotesque, we share a desire to actively re-sensitize ourselves to the tenderness of human experience.

You don’t need to be famous to have a Weird Internet Career, though it often involves building a certain amount of reputation for you or your thing in some corner of the internet, but most of that reputation is built by doing the thing, not by starting off as notable from something else.