This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
The trouble with the internet is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
· from ‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (2017)
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Invoke the brat as your muse, it seems, and she’ll dilute the politics of your book down to a mix of provocativeness and uncertainty. Something like “The system is gross, but the people who want to resist or improve it are cringe. And some aspects of the system, like online shopping and racism and fatphobia, might actually be OK? Just kidding!... See more
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