People are so helplessly chronically online they see a perfectly normal activity being done in public like reading or journalling and think nah that can’t be real… that it’s so unusual it must be “performative”… lol
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I don’t believe in authenticity on the internet.
There’s this obsession with realness online. When I was working on Trust Exercise, and watching all these Beauty Secrets videos, I would see all these comments like, “she’s so real”. Which was funny to me, because it’s a Vogue video. It’s the most edited thing in the world. But we’re obsessed with
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I don’t want to sound too much like the "we should improve society somewhat" meme, because obviously, people are going to talk about being less online...online. Social media remains a key arena for discourse about cultural, technological, and social issues. That said, I want to make two points.
First, being offline has become an aesthetic language... See more
First, being offline has become an aesthetic language... See more