“Normally, I have a policy about not using any skills that were taught to me by a man — that’s why I don’t torrent, use Night Shift on my iPhone, or archive emails — but it was obvious I wasn’t going to get through the night without chopsticks.”Tagged: SXSW, humor, Men
“They’ve done something that the companies in the firearm industry cannot do on their own: make the gun lifestyle as attractive and aspirational as all the others on Instagram.”Tagged: Guns, Pro Gun, NRA, Influencers, Gun Nuts
“Many of the Instagram users who have caught on to this financial hack are lifestyle influencers charging money for friendship at its most literal—broken down into its component parts, which are then sorted into various tiers of ascending value.”Tagged: Close Friends, Instagram, Money, Social Media
“Instagram has long been a place where what you see might be smoke and mirrors—a home for the best and most beautiful version of everyday life, put on display for consumption and then expensive imitation.”Tagged: QAnon, Donald Trump, Conspiracy Theories, Pizzagate, Instagram
“Many of the exiled groups behind them have little in the way of shared ideology or politics, but they do share a fixation on the way they’ve been persecuted. And they raise a whole new set of questions about how to break down the internet’s structural penchant for hate.”Tagged: Terfs, Transphobia, Gender Critical Movement , Second Wave Feminism , r/GenderCritical