consuming the girl
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consuming the girl
The ideal woman, in other words, is always optimizing. She takes advantage of technology, both in the way she broadcasts her image and in the meticulous improvement of that image itself.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing | CNN
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But this internecine internet feud is eclipsed, in Lorenz’s reporting, by a shadow thesis of which she seems largely unaware: that the engine for this corporate revolution—this rerouting of business models and marketing campaigns from “connection” to “content creation”—has consistently been white women. White women producers (as mommy bloggers, My... See more
Anna Shechtman • Life in the Algorithm
If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
The idea of being “in” is an economy in itself: streetwear drops, exclusive social clubs, and now, as we’ve seen, viral consumer social products, which we’ll be focusing on for this piece.
Jordan Odinsky • The Value of a Velvet Rope: Effects of Hype and Exclusivity on Launch Strategies
