Analysis
The anti-ageing obsession is the new diet culture
The pressure on women to look young is playing out just like toxic 2000s diet culture, writes Crystal Andrews.
Digital Culture
Explainers
Underconsumption Core: This Trend Is Not About The Economy
Underconsumption videos are snippets of normal life. Just regular stuff.
Explainers
TikTok vs Universal Music Group: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Artists?
The big corporations involved can afford to go back and forth on artists' livelihoods but the artists themselves cannot.
Opinion
I’m Begging You to Stop Stitching Racists, TERFs & Misogynists Just To ‘Prove Them Wrong’
Trying to 'call-out' problematic views often only helps spread those views even further.
Opinion
Adults and Teenagers Were Not Supposed To Share Space Online
No critical thinking, just vibes.
Opinion
The Latest Victim of Everything-Is-Content? Festivals and Live Music
The angst and criticism around gig-going behaviour is a reaction to a bigger shift in priorities among young people.
Explainers
2023 Is The Year Of Meta Cringe – And It’s So Damn Liberating
To cringe is to be free... and don't we all want to be free?
Opinion
All These 'Aesthetic' Trends Are Missing One Thing: Actual Communities
We've disconnected ways of dressing from the ways of being they used to represent.
Opinion
NPCs & Main Characters: We're Straight Up Dehumanising Ourselves Online Now
anything that normalises viewing other people as non-human, even just a little bit, has serious ramifications.
Opinion
Let’s Not Give Conservative Politicians The Power of Becoming a Meme
"Memeifying far right politicians is giving them the very cultural relevance they need to spread their harmful messages."
Opinion
Social Media Is Changing. In The New ‘Creator Economy’, Ideas Are the Prime Commodity
That doesn't mean the ideas have to be good, though.
Opinion
This is Not An Essay About West Elm Caleb – It’s About Ethics, Power & Justice
This isn't really about Caleb – it’s about soft power, who wields it, and why.