Tag Archives: Social media

Why are Youtuber Sponsored Products all so… Weird?

The Process of a Sponsorship In the past, sponsorships relied on the star power of [...]

Re-Learning Bad Ideas Very Fast on TikTok

Forbidden knowledge is very alluring. In the early days of the internet, articles advertising hacks [...]

How Many Bad Conventions Start Online?

Why do so many of these cons have issues?  DashCon – One of The First [...]

What is the allure of the mysterious, sickeningly blue NyQuil chicken?

How did it make its triumphant return after months, perhaps years, of quiet slumber in [...]

Online True Crime’s Not Doing So Hot

You go to your computer. You see a headline for something clickbait-y, maybe “Insane murder [...]

Please don’t scan random QR codes

The Past and Present of Random Links Before the age of built in antivirus and [...]

Tone Tags – the Result of Constant Bad-Faith Readings

The internet’s a tough, cynical place. You may have heard of Poe’s Law, which states [...]

The Panopticon Comes for Your Playlist

Artists can see what playlists you add their songs to on Spotify. That hasn’t really [...]

“NPC Interactions” and the Death Of Social Cues

What is An NPC? NPCs, or non-playable characters, are side characters in video games. When [...]

Digital Influencers are like Vocaloids but Worse

Polar, the New “Digital Influencer” What is a digital influencer? Essentially, a digital influencer is [...]