Quotes tagged ‘The internet’

“Whether the site can guide femcels towards self-acceptance is yet to be seen – but it will likely do very little to solve the misunderstanding which surrounds this community.”

— Daisy Schofield, huckmag.com

“Can anyone, any single one, can anyone shut the fuck up about anything, any single thing? Can any single person shut the fuck up about any single thing for an hour? Is that possible?”

— Bo Burnham, buzzfeednews.com

“I know this is supposed to be playful and quirky, but after seeing the true chaos the internet can create, I’m simply underwhelmed.”

— Justice Namaste, jezebel.com

“You’ve posted Rita’s feet?”

— Laura Bassett, thecut.com

“Nothing interesting or beautiful happens there anymore.”

— Astro Poets, astropoets.substack.com

“Academia is basically a niche forum you have to pay $200,000 to post on.”

— collnsmith, twitter.com

“We're like, 'We're geniuses! We invented the internet!' and it's like, no mushrooms kind of did it first sorry.”

— Brie Larson, youtube.com

“It’s been comforting to conceive of my mind as a dignified fortress rather than a heap of festering goo.”

— Callie Beusman, thecut.com

“I’m bad at planning my posts. I used to edit my photos—I used to be a VSCO girl, editing colors – and then I stopped. I got tired of it.”

— Aimee Song, refinery29.com

“Was she even Bianca Devins? Was Clark her ex, a current boyfriend or an aggressive stalker? And to which internet cliques did either party belong?”

— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com

“We know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”

— Jon Ronson, amazon.com

“How often do you search for something on Google? How many times do you log in to Facebook to check your feed?”

— Mark Walker-Ford , socialmediatoday.com

“The internet is vast, but it brings like minds together. At its best, it serves to unite kinky freaks, dissidents of oppressive regimes and sufferers of obscure diseases. At the same time, this tendency can serve the cruel or misinformed — giving shared language to Nazis and incels and other bleak d…”

— Jamie Lauren Keiles, nytimes.com

“Ever since Tumblr's puritanical overhaul, the site has now seen about a 30 percent decline in traffic. That number is likely not just users looking for a well-developed porn platform either.”

— Justin Kirkland, esquire.com

“Meszaros acknowledges there’s meaning in providing for his family and being a company man, but he couldn’t stop asking himself, Am I doing anything that has meaning beyond surviving today? Am I doing anything that’s adding any real value to the world?”

— Quinn Myers, melmagazine.com

“Here, on the internet, is a nowhere space, a shallow time. It is a flat and impenetrable surface. But with a book, we dive in; we are sucked in; we are immersed, body and soul.”

— Mairead Small Staid, theparisreview.org

“Utopia comes from the Greek words meaning no-place. The impossibility of its own existence is built into the very concept. A global society free from problems, in which every desire is met, has proven unrealistic—a failure, even. But the brilliant thing about the web is its ability to host multiple…”

— Becca abbe, are.na

“It was no longer enough to publish good content and know your existing readers would come to you. This is still true, now: A lot of the editors I know must overachieve for their publication just to survive.”

— Tavi Gevinson, rookiemag.com

“BDE has less to do with confidence and more to do with personality and how you carry yourself. And you don’t need a dick to have it.”

— Kyrell Grant, theguardian.com

“Just as black Twitter gave voice and audience to black writers, Tumblr created the space for sexually nonnormative people to see and be seen in ways they weren’t elsewhere.”

— Steven W. Thrasher, theatlantic.com