web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
by andrea and · updated 1mo ago
web as performance
alex added 1mo ago
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Why TikTok star Ana Wolfermann is ready to leave influencing for a 9-to-5 job | Fortune
by Jane Thier
phoebe added 2mo ago
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This is what the internet was always meant to be. A resource for learning. It’s so simple, but we forget.
sari added 3mo ago
I've never really met anyone else who oscillates so frequently and fervently between an intense desire for anonymity, to disappear even, and to crack oneself open entirely for the whole world to see. To be the maximum version of oneself in public, consequences be damned.
Alara added 3mo ago
“It’s uncomfortable being two: me for me and me for others.”
A Breath of Life (Um sopro de vida), Clarice Lispector
andrea added 3mo ago
- how can i feel free to tinker with my website without feeling like it's supposed to be my main public-facing thing and should therefore contain all the proper public-facing things and be well structured and well maintained and not in a constant state of half-brokenness?
from katherine (@kayserifserif@sunny.garden)
linda added 4mo ago
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There isn‘t a clean way to get around the idea that personal expression is always at least in part performative. Expression is partly fun because it’s performative.
It’s also not like this type of behavior is a new thing. There has always been the type of person who is performative of their own interests or pursues their work because of the kind of ... See morefrom Here for the Wrong Reasons
Alara added 4mo ago
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the metrics, outward success, markers of “making it”, numbers, likes, popularity, visibility, praise or criticism or being ignored, awards, highlights, or trajectory that might come from what we make don’t matter much if we aren’t enjoying the process of making what we make.andrea added 5mo ago