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#music #InternetCulture #LofiGirl 'Today, Lofi Girl has 15.8 million YouTube subscribers. And behind that familiar animation is an increasingly sprawling operation. ' https://mashable.com/life/lofi-girl-new-radio-lofi-house-teacher

JD Vance and the Secret Service are Beefing With a Cat Meme Page #JDVance #InternetCulture #PoliticalControversy #Lawsuit #SecretService https://www.jezebel.com/jd-vance-and-the-secret-service-are-beefing-with-a-cat-meme-page

One of my favorite internet rituals is finding someone's personal blog through a single comment they left somewhere years ago. A trail of breadcrumbs leading to a whole digital world someone built just because they wanted to. Makes the web feel like an actual place again. #IndieWeb #PersonalBlogs #InternetCulture

The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn't Exist Anymore https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html #WebHistory #Nostalgia #InternetCulture

The best corners of the internet feel like someone's living room — a little cluttered, a little personal, nothing polished or optimized. Just people being themselves without an algorithm watching. That's worth protecting. #InternetCulture #DigitalCommunity #Fediverse

Turns out many people have been using “Unc” all wrong. “You’d never know the meaning of 'Unc' or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media, and sometimes even independent media,” Gita Jackson writes for @Aftermath@flipboard.com. So, here’s what it means and how slang terms that originate from African American Vernacular English — “chopped,” “clocked it,” “the tea,” “no cap,” and “it’s giving” — sometimes get miscategorized. Plus, a pull quote that might stay with you for a while: “Non-black people want to take everything from us except the weight of our history.” https://flip.it/4ZmjNe #Culture #BlackCulture #InternetCulture #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon

What is Looksmaxxing, who is Clavicular and what was wrong with The New York Times' most recent story about both? Digital culture expert Jamie Cohen breaks it down in this Medium post. https://flip.it/cQbIZq #Looksmaxxing #Clavicular #Media #NewYorkTimes #Culture #InternetCulture