One such curator is Derrick Gee, a former online radio d.j. who lives in Australia. I first encountered Gee on TikTok and was pulled in by his architect-ish look: thin wireframe glasses and stylishly baggy, often monochrome outfits. He records videos of himself talking into a microphone in a low, soothing voice, breaking down trends in contemporary... See more

in an era of media overabundance people are searching for a way to distill the overabundance, and it tends to be through voices that they trust. So yeah, there's filtering, but that can also happen through systems. I don't think it's any one group of people, whether that's critics or people just relying on their networks or just on their own... See more