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welcome 2 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁. a new forum for jagged and iridescent reflection on the “girl online”, or rather, the necessity of being a girl online.
what is it to be a girl? drawing our project’s name from alex quicho’s @amfq article << everyone is a girl online >>, we follow quicho in theorizing the girl as one who ‘tactically’ submits to the... See more
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"Life in the Instagram bubble requires a constant calibration of how it will be viewed from outside. That need to make life itself aesthetic, to ask, over and over “What will this look like in a square?” exerts a slow, constant pressure of its own." (Jacob Mikanowski)
If you spend all of your time consuming internet culture, you are consuming stories and myths and personalities that only exist online. To curate your online presence is to give up a piece of your physical self, to live in a simulated universe of your own creation.
Ginevra Davis • I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
also, cool girl is all about images and curated online presence. sometimes i feel so cool and pretty myself, but am i, really, if there’s no picture to prove it? if i don’t know how to pose and i’m not photogenic? if i can’t manage to create a certain vibe with my instagram posts? there’s a quote i read somewhere saying nowadays everything exists
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