Nascent Conservatism

GEN Z SWUNG TO THE RIGHT BECAUSE OF MONEY WOES, SURVEY FINDS , thedailybeast

Financial services company Empower surveyed more than 2,200 Americans, and respondents born between 1997 and 2012 — Gen Zers, in other words — said they’d need to make $587,000 a year to be “financially successful.” The news comes after the youngest voting group, 18- to 24... See more

If you’ve posted on Instagram about politics, you’re familiar with its impossible contradictions: posting something is wrong, but so is posting nothing. Posting with your own words is wrong, but so is reposting something without your own words. Posting while acknowledging your power is annoying, but posting without it is oblivious. You should cente... See more

If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was how far social media platforms had moved to the right. While Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other sites continue to be popular gathering places for entertainment and meme-making, political discourse online has increasingly shifted to an array of mostly right-wing sites that have built... See more

Gen Z apparently sees books as a waste of time. Though, sales of the Bible are booming.

As one Twitter user posted, “through little/no actual fault of her own, Sydney Sweeney had been embraced by the alt-right as a symbol of traditional femininity. White, blonde, and sexy the way women should be. Now they are turning on her. They hate women and will never truly accept them.”

Is anyone else’s IG full of breast feeding videos? I asked some creators about this and they said that breastfeeding content is a way for women to get around the app’s ban on nipples, so now you see tons of OnlyFans girls holding up fake babies, pretending to breastfeed in order to get boosted in the algorithm.