is social media real life?
Everything you could say about Clavicular — the 20-year-old looksmaxxer who is one of the internet’s first main characters of 2026 — feels optimized for algorithmic traction. He has lived his life in order to be a hook for a social media post.
One of Clavicular’s first real brushes with internet fame came from this photo which got popular on Reddit... See more
One of Clavicular’s first real brushes with internet fame came from this photo which got popular on Reddit... See more
Clavicular and contentmaxxing
who the fuck are these random characters? these freaks?
A Facebook group called Baddies in AI, geared toward women who are using A.I. to either augment their own social-media presence or create entirely new figures from scratch, has more than three hundred thousand members.
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A cringey New Year’s Eve fail warns of what happens “when you believe everything you see on TikTok” (Creators)
A viral TikTok video captured a crowd eagerly awaiting a New Year’s Eve fireworks show near the Brooklyn Bridge, only to realize it was a hoax. The incident sparked a discussion about media literacy and the dangers of believing everything... See more
A viral TikTok video captured a crowd eagerly awaiting a New Year’s Eve fireworks show near the Brooklyn Bridge, only to realize it was a hoax. The incident sparked a discussion about media literacy and the dangers of believing everything... See more
is brain-rot TikTok cringe yet? the crab who started it says 'almost'
But influencers have cultivated and refined a mode of existing online that has filtered down into the way so many of us navigate online spaces: in the way you craft your profile on LinkedIn, in your font choice for a pic of your houseplant on IG, in the TikTok your coworker cajoles you into making on a slow day at work. The subtle way that... See more
Is Everyone an Influencer Now?
This is a classic case of the 1% rule.
"In online communities, around 1% of users produce almost all of the content. As such, what you see online is not representative of humanity, but merely of a loud, obsessive (and often narcissistic, psychopathic, low-IQ) minority. Social media is literally a freakshow." (h/t Gurwinder)
"In online communities, around 1% of users produce almost all of the content. As such, what you see online is not representative of humanity, but merely of a loud, obsessive (and often narcissistic, psychopathic, low-IQ) minority. Social media is literally a freakshow." (h/t Gurwinder)
Why do we love humiliating men
“we’re in a global and culturewide crisis of meaning, in which manufactured realities exert pressure on the real world and we’re being manipulated more constantly and efficiently by social media than ever before while also being more conscious than we’ve ever been of that manipulation as it’s taking place.”
Where is the male equivalent to the girly pop?
- Craigslist might be the last real place on the internet.
Ashley St Clair on trans rights, immigration, Elon and more
I used to imagine that the internet was an extension of real life. Maybe it used to be, but now I think that the internet and reality are two separate worlds. Different societies, at odds with each other, that we have to simultaneously occupy.