Nascent Conservatism
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.
TikTok is done for
But while 4chan posters and online trolls started the pro-Trump movement, the crowd at the Power 30 Awards is evidence of how mainstream the movement has become.
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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
Posting Less
why bother
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
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
Wrapped Anxiety and Boomer Takes
While the “trad” lifestyle presents itself as a free and open option to women, in reality it’s not for most adherents. Women choose it either after a lifetime of preparation for rigid gender roles, or after being backed into a chaotic corner desperate for a solution, or on the false premise that the lifestyle matches the promises.
An Ex-Trad Wife On What the Insta Photos Don't Show
how the attention economy works to juice up provocative points of view while ignoring information that is weighed down by the burden of nuance and moderation.
Should Kids Really Learn About Getting Rich?
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
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a recent study found that TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones.