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Resisting Audience Capture: How to Maintain Your Integrity & Sanity Online
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Back in 2014, Balaji Srinivasin wrote: An infinity of subcultures outside the mainstream now blossoms on the Internet—vegans, body modifiers, CrossFitters, Wiccans, DIYers, Pinners, and support groups of all forms. Millions of people are finding their true peers in the cloud, a remedy for the isolation imposed by the anonymous apartment complex or ... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture

young people are adept at “code switching,” meaning they use different language depending on who they’re with and the situations they find themselves in.
Melina Delkic • Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
"Doing the work that your parents then do for your spirit or for your character. But there’s an aspect of it that I like: It led me to think about what I do as a kind of two-way, generational reparenting. On the one hand, caring for these bygone thinkers, while at the same time imbuing the present generation with their hand-me-down wisdom and their... See more