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Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ YouTube Shorts rizz party, Clavicular's Club Stream, heat islands, MrBeast's Japan pivot, Costco's chocolate bunny, Twitch streaming as a dog, and the…
 • Taylor Lorenz
The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a KitKat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and…
 • Taylor Lorenz
The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Haven’t Noticed)
AI influencer awards season, vaping squirrels, RIP Sora, bestie-fication of media, peak MrBeast, the pop diva extinction, Zuckerberg's claw, a…
 • Taylor Lorenz
The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, ‘porn addiction’ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste…
 • Taylor Lorenz
How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harry’s Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red…
 • Taylor Lorenz
You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms
+ AI Amish influencers, baby gut health, Kai Trump's Erewhon vlog, bed rotting for art, the Substack book, MrBeast banking, Quittr, a new Ellison, Ben…
 • Taylor Lorenz
How Epstein Warped the Entire Internet
Mr. Beast Islam, Roblox threesoms, the Staples Baddie, Parisian slop bowls, phone away from phone, AI pervert glasses, TX primary influencer wars, and…
 • Taylor Lorenz
'Situation Monitoring' Products Are Flooding The Web
+ Yapper ads, the Most Evil Gay Guy, pop culture OpenClaw, Gucci runway texts, Jim Carry conspiracies, #sendBaron, Zuck's $170M mansion, Opensource…
 • Taylor Lorenz
ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7
+ PewDiePieAI, sustainable abundance, MAGA influencers go solar, disappearing summer break, YT's newest teen sensation, giving birth on livestream, a…
 • Taylor Lorenz
Why The Internet Is Broken
+ Ai;dr, r/lanadelrey drama, total boomer luxury communism, American Girl novels, Benny Blanco livestreamer, Nicki Minaj bot farms, Slxughter…
 • Taylor Lorenz
Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
+ Burnout feminism, slop surgery, sleepcations, serftok, Meta's celeb wrangler -> OpenAI, American Girl Ozempic, chatbot cafes, Tinder voting, 13 yr old…
 • Taylor Lorenz
They're Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It
+ Beast Banking, Clav's mogshot, a brainrot Reels slam poet, X's fake cancer cure problem, Polymarket Portal feet pics, AI Netflix, analog YouTube…
 • Taylor Lorenz
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A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring original reporting on how the internet is reshaping politics, business, media, and culture.
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