There's an opinion becoming dominant in the world of "trends" that the Internet is generating too many trends too quickly for anyone to keep up with, that the word itself is becoming meaningless as a result. I think this perspective is the antidote.
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How Coyote VS Acme and Alicia Keys connect to my favorite corner of the internet
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The NFL's altering of Alicia Keys's Super Bowl performance and Warner Bros. cancellation of Coyote vs. Acme call to mind one of my favorite corners of the internet, Lost Media.
Flowers: Chicken Noodle Soup (a personal reflection)
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It’s 2006. You open YouTube in Firefox and see the Flash-based video player showing low-resolution footage of kids dancing to a song called Chicken Noodle Soup. It feels like that day’s bit of Internet fun. You have no idea that those few videos represent Black culture preparing to forever shift how the internet and music industry would co-exist. At least, I had no idea. Today we...
2024: Year of the Billionfluencer
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The rise of billionfluencers marks a shift as billionaires are now seen as objects of fandom, wielding great influence through social media, directing discourse and attention.
Why music is memes and we make the hits
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Is Everything Fandom?
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Melrose Place, Milkshake Ducks, and Media Viruses
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Meta-Irony and Gen Z
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Liminal Spaces may be the most 2020 of all trends
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