This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

The longer I work in networked spaces, the more convinced I become that increasingly inescapable and seemingly innocuous forms of context collapse in our media and social internet systems secretly explain a shockingly large proportion of every weirding, every derangement, and every rollercoaster terror/joy of the systems we live in online. So no su... See more

iron law of the internet: any movement or subculture will be judged by its most cringe members