The line between our personal and professional lives has become so blurred that social media feels less like a place for genuine connection and more like a stage for curated performance.
For me personally, it would have meant the preemptive realization that many of the ideas we theorized at Other Internet had little feasibility beyond the thinkpieces they were contained within, not because they were bad ideas, but because they never had the agency to be implemented.
There have been studies that suggest this AI-productivity hypothesis may check out. In 2024, researchers analysed the output of over 53,000 artists and 5,800 AI adopters on a major art-sharing platform and found that generative tools do, in fact, boost the number of works users post per month. Similar studies across other sectors have made... See more
The way that we engage with media on the internet has become laden with fandom energy. All narratives on the internet have become subsumed under the umbrella of‘content’, no matter their scale or veracity. They all have the potential to gather lore, because they can all be read the same way—like fictional media franchises. Thisincludes everyday... See more