Ayo Edebiri isn't the only Irish person taking over the internet. Vox takes a look at why everyone loves Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott and Cillian Murphy right now. For Americans, "Irish actors arguably evoke a kind of safe 'exoticness,'" Mary M. Burke, a professor of English at the University of Connecticut, says. “Being native speakers of English with a purportedly cute accent, they are just ‘foreign’ enough for mainstream taste."
Jessica Reed Kraus is an Instagram home renovation personality and lifestyle influencer based in Southern California. She was also described by New York Magazine as "chief instigator of the anti-[Amber] Heard story line" during the Johnny Depp defamation case, and her endorsement is now being sought by Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Semafor's Max Tani met the woman he describes as "an avatar for the new front in the battle for the presidency."
The world's most popular painter — at least, when it comes to TikTok followers — is Devon Rodriguez. He recently held his first solo show, Underground. Artnet's critic, Ben Davis, wrote what he thought was a fair review, but Rodriguez disagreed, leading to a pile-on from his fans. Here, Davis shares further thoughts about the nature of criticism, influencer art and "parasocial aesthetics." What do you think?
Nearly 80% of 16- to 17 year-old boys in the U.K. have watched Andrew Tate’s content, according to a survey by the anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate, which led the campaign to de-platform him. GQ magazine talked to anti-Tate influencers about how they're trying to connect with teens and turn the tide on toxic masculinity.
Why does virtually every internet conversation degenerate into a bun fight over who is a better person or who suffered more? This phenomenon has a name — moral grandstanding — and a new philosophy book, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" discusses why we do it, and how we can stop.
I’ve not done one of these here yet. Hi! I’m Kayla, PhD candidate in #Ireland looking at suicide methods, locations of suicide and pro-suicide content online/digital communities
I’ve worked in suicide prevention/intervention/postvention for over 7 years and am founder of a non-profit in this area
Welcome to my Friday cabinet of curiosities, a roundup of stuff I enjoyed this week! Today’s links feature rebel birds, touchable cartography, human-sized 3D printers and more
Absurdist streamers roleplay as NPCs, performing exaggerated looping movements and repeating catchphrases
“They’re picking up on all the ‘uncanny valley’ things about how NPCs behave in video games" ... NPCs “don’t behave like ordinary people do, they’re not offended if you make them repeat themselves over and over. They don’t expect you to cooperate in conversation.”
A couple satirical posts by Ari Drennen as a reminder to be careful about who you listen to right now, especially on social media, and believing their musings. Everything is in flux and the parties involved have their own information reliability problems which makes what even under best circumstances difficult even more so. People who prognosticate with certainty or who don't traditionally cover these topics but instead jump from hot take to hot take should be given less than zero credibility and none of your attention. Even if they are not doing it for nefarious purposes they are just clouding the waters. #politics#InternetCulture#russia#RussianCivilWar#putin#meme#humor#satire
If you don't care about social media companies newly charging exorbitant fees for API usage for #disinformation research, maybe you'll care about this other kind of social science research. Consider all the quantified cultural heritage we are losing when only VC-backed LLM factories can access internet history. Dirthatted wankclownery. #DigitalHumanities#Reddit#PushShift#Culture#Sociology#internetculture#socialscience
Hello new followers. Here’s an updated #introduction:
I’m Shayne. I’m a journalist in the audience and community engagement space.
I grew up on the internet and navigating platforms became my career. For my day job, I’m the audience strategy director at States Newsroom. But on my own time, I’m unlearning some old habits and reevaluating the space I take up online.