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Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
This commodification of the self accelerated with the advent of Instagram, which turned the visual trappings of our personal lives into fodder for the feed.
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
Perhaps the demise of traditional retail and media can be explained by the Internet offering better alternatives for curating your own community of like-minded people/products and removing most of the friction around connecting.
Julie Thibault • The Internet empowered us to find our tribes. Retail isn’t keeping up.
Platforms such as MetaFactory and Zora are helping "consumer-creators" share in the profits from collectively-owned fashion houses and music labels.