Who’s Afraid of ‘Skibidi Toilet’?
TikTok, Terror, and Teens
youtube.comThe thing that people scoff at -- these are just stupid jpegs! -- is the same thing that makes them so rife for narrative building. They’re largely empty vessels into which the community of owners and supporters can pour stories that turn into a narrative.
Packy McCormick • Story Time
Conspiratorial thinking is no longer just for the tinfoil-hat crowd. The very structure of the internet encourages a kind of hyper-paranoia, where every piece of content feels like it’s leading somewhere bigger.
The way platforms serve us information—fractured, unpredictable, contextless—creates a feeling of constant destabilisation. What’s real? Wh... See more
The way platforms serve us information—fractured, unpredictable, contextless—creates a feeling of constant destabilisation. What’s real? Wh... See more
The schizo-fication of the online world
Children themselves probably couldn’t tell you where their lore began...These things were almost like analog memes, micro-bits of culture that seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere.