iron law of the internet: any movement or subculture will be judged by its most cringe members
iron law of the internet: any movement or subculture will be judged by its most cringe members
Laws of the Internet:
Alara and added
“What the internet has created is this unstoppable, ever growing economy with zero checks and balances. And so in that sense, there is a really dire need for these types of snark communities,” said Kat Tenbarge, a journalist who covers tech and culture for NBC News. “They’re on the front line protecting people and consumers from what these influenc... See more
Feven Merid • The Reddit pages that investigate influencers
Naz Aiman added
the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
Keely Adler and added
7. On the internet, the past is a black hole sucking the future into itself.
stealing • Retrofuturism
Keely Adler added
Within online communities, this produces a strong pressure towards conformity with the values and mores of one’s peers. But even peer conformity is no safeguard, because anyone can see into it. The potential audience for anything posted on the internet is the entire internet. The only way to conform successfully on the internet is to be unutterably
... See moreRichard Seymour • The Twittering Machine
A few years ago, a user by the name of IlluminatiPirate published Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake on the online forum Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe.1 The theory proposes that the majority of the content with which we engage online is algorithmically generated by bots, all in an effort to control what we believe. I feel obligated to... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Making the Internet Alive Again
Severin Matusek added
The fundamental tension of narrative control in the networked era is that most companies impose a hierarchical brand management model onto what has effectively become a distributed, permissionless process. And when the emergent meme-space of networked media meets censorship-resistant infrastructures, brands take on a life of their own.
otherinter.net • Headless Brands
Alex Wittenberg added
Internet culture is now culture writ large, and internet culture is definitionally non-mainstream. Internet culture is messy and chaotic and fragmented. Internet culture movies at a torrid clip, and thumbs its nose at content catered to the cultural common denominator.
Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture
Keely Adler added