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The hipster was an information-sorting algorithm: its job was to always have good taste . The hipster listened to bands you’d never heard of. The hipster drank beers brewed by Paraguayan Jesuits in the 1750s. The hipster thought Tarkovsky was for posers, and the only truly great late-Soviet filmmaker was Ali Khamraev. The hipster bought all his... See more

Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge

Jessica Pruett, a gender and sexuality studies scholar who completed a Ph.D. in culture and theory at the University of California, Irvine, in 2021, wrote her master’s thesis on lesbian fans of One Direction. “Thinking about lesbian fandom of One Direction helps reframe how people think about One Direction fandom in general,” she told me. “It’s a

Kaitlyn Tiffany • Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Five years ago, Zoe Quinn was chased out of her own home. It wasn't the first time the internet decided to ruin someone's life. But the tactics developed during Gamergate, and the personalities that emerged from it became our national politics. https://t.co/oB96aQmjXD

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Britney Spears, initially glossed as a vapid, oversexed ingénue-turned-psycho, now seems perfectly sympathetic: the public required her to be seductive, innocent, flawless, and bankable, and she crumbled under the impossibility of these competing demands. In life, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston were often depicted as strung-out monsters; in

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Newsletters go back at least as far as the Middle Ages, but these days, with full-time jobs at stable media companies evaporating—between the 2008 recession and 2019, newsroom employment dropped by 23 percent—Substack offers an appealing alternative.

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Though she knew she was partially responsible for her recommendations, the algorithmic acceleration of content online outpaced her everyday experiences to an absurd degree. “Not every interaction I have in real life would shape my choices. Why should my tiniest interaction with an influencer wearing leg warmers? They fed it to me,” she said. There

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

What else would I be doing? Well, it’s very clear. I would be much more active on YouTube. YouTube is completely underrated, both in terms of its consequences and audiences.

I’ve subscribed to like 400 channels. I watch way too much of it. Moving images is where the center of the culture is. It’s not books. It’s moving images. I have a little media