Who’s Afraid of ‘Skibidi Toilet’?
When you think about YouTube or TikTok or any of these platforms, the creators who have risen on these platforms, it’s very unlikely they would have risen through traditional channels. If they said, “Give me money to go make a movie, it’s going to be 90 minutes of me jumping into slime,” that probably wouldn’t have worked. But then they can start a
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Young romantics working at the "intersection of art and technology" launched endless criticisms of big tech's overreach and in the process created the foundations for an entire scene of left-field internet aesthetics.
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
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! Unle... See more
The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom
A sludge video is essentially a video of videos. Internet communities have cracked jokes and made memes about how sludge content is an extreme response to people’s growing need for more and more stimuli to completely fill their attention span.