I wrote about how location-sharing has become so ingrained in relationships, it's now a curse, with users learning things about their friends, families, and partners that they never wanted or needed to know!! for
@bustle
The first Facebook parents used it as a modern scrapbook for their children. Over 15 years later, though, the children have grown up, and many have come to resent the digital footprint that was created for them without their consent—for
@TheAtlantic
The morning after a wedding in Vermont this summer, while my friends were relaxing in a hot tub at their hotel, my boyfriend and I were cleaning the kitchen of our Airbnb. "Wait," we said to each other. "Why are we paying for this?"
For
@TheAtlantic
:
For two years I assumed my Rolling Stone offer was rescinded because I was a woman who attempted to negotiate the salary. I was later told it was because I was a union member who attempted to negotiate the salary. I regret the error—won’t happen again!
For two years
@kathrynfiona
has wondered why a staff writer job offer at
@RollingStone
was abruptly rescinded. She recently learned the reason: her union support in social media posts.
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When my mom dies, I'll receive all 5000+ of her emails. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with them.
With the help of stories like
@offbeatorbit
's, I wrote about how technology has complicated grieving:
I spoke to the two girls behind the Instagram
@TikTokRoom
, Elasia and Nat, who stayed up all night on FaceTime to diligently post updates from Monday’s insane TikTok drama and hit one million followers in the process.
PLOT TWIST: pete davidson and ariana grande have probably been together for months, and it all hinges on a set he performed in APRIL at KENYON COLLEGE in GAMBIER OHIO
I spent four straight hours watching every single
@brianjoralvarez
TikTok character to bring you this definitive guide to the lore for
@vulture
and now i'm omw to the brain hospital!
the amount of Airbnb ads that have stalked me since I started working on this piece are all worth it for finally getting to the bottom of what cleaning fees can actually mean:
did a deep dive into influencer pandemic parties: over the past two months, they've thrown at least 14 parties, ignoring increasingly desperate warnings and, most egregiously, the still-rising COVID-19 death toll in CA (12K+)
parents are locking down social media handles and other kinds of digital real estate for their children so they can inherit them when they grow up—for
@nytimes
✨💃
“If you met your partner on a dating app two years ago, you caught the last chopper out of ‘Nam.”
For
@bustle
, I wrote about why singles think dating apps have lost their luster:
Fiona hitching a ride then doing an impressive dismount. Hippos can hold their breath for up to 5 minutes before pushing off the bottom to come up for air. Resurfacing for air is so instinctual that a hippo sleeping underwater will rise and breathe without waking up.
I'm obsessed w the girl on TikTok who has been running a social experiment on her boyfriend by seeing if he'll pick what he wears each day based solely on where she puts a gap in the closet. The answer is "yes" every single time
@GQMagazine
hilaria and alec baldwin are blaming the media for all this which is 1) false and also 2) every publication WISHES they got the scoop on this instead of aggregating a twitter thread
@letterboxd
, specifically, tried three times to get Josh O'Connor to talk about anything other than "Ratatouille," and each time, he immediately brought up "Ratatouille"
with creators beginning their careers younger and younger, and older creators having been on the internet for 10+ years now, some are feeling trapped in the online personas they created. a fun one for
@bustle
!
if you are struggling to properly adhere a jack sparrow mustache to your cat to make a video parody of domestic violence allegations please take that as a sign from The Lord to pause and reconsider
My last story for
@Refinery29
is also my favorite: I took a deep dive into the ill-fated 2014 reality show I Wanna Marry Harry, speaking to a producer, three contestants, and "Harry" himself about the tactics used to make these women feel crazy
"When there’s no face to it, it seems like it’s a corporation, and corporations to a lot of Gen Z equal bad or untrustworthy."
I wrote about the perks—and pitfalls—of gen z news consumption for
@verge
!
we know about saving passwords and memorializing Facebook accounts, but our digital footprints have expanded so rapidly that most things we don't think about until the time comes
@offbeatorbit
media reporting makes me queasy bc I know any publication I write about has the power to retaliate by releasing a cover letter I most certainly sent them five years ago for a job I didn't get
"It's impossible not to see this as a backlash to
#MeToo
—like women have gone too far. Okay, ladies, we listened to you and locked a couple of men up. Don't get too greedy, now."
Now that we know more about the permanence of social media, some parents want to keep pictures of their children entirely offline—a rule that can be hard to enforce when everyone has their own phones and opinions:
I took a trip down memory lane with the very first YouTubers like
@mememolly
@GloZell
@brittanitaylor
& MORE to find out why so many of them are leaving YouTube — & why just as many are determined to stay
But other parents, lured by likes and the algorithm, have continued sharing intimate and sometimes invasive videos of their children in an increasingly public social media arena. So the children are fighting back:
"After two years of online interaction being the primary way of socializing, hearing that someone is nice when they’re not on Twitter feels as reasonable as someone being like, 'They’re actually really nice when they’re not in the living room.'"
I spoke to a Johnny Depp fan who changed her mind.
"The whole thing started to feel really insidious ... like I had been manipulated to support an abuser. This situation has definitely changed forever how I will look at information on the internet."
there's no larger force making all these bad world events happen one after another, so I tried to muddle through why the internet makes it feels like there is
my favorite christmas tradition starts tomorrow — VLOGMAS!! i talked to its creator
@ingridnilsen
about how it started, and what it's turned into 6 years later
"We need to abolish the media party until you all learn how to be actually interesting again."
someone had to say it!!! showing up to a media party is realizing certain people are popular *only online* for a reason...;...............,,,.
23-year-old Kelsey Russell decided to solve Gen Z's media literacy problem by...literally just reading the New York Times out loud on TikTok. And it's working??
I love her and I loved this interview for
@getembedded
I interviewed Nick Bakay, the original voice of Salem the cat. If you love Sabrina The Teenage Witch as much as I do, every single thing he says will bring so much joy to your heart. If you have never watched Sabrina, you are beyond help!!!
I spoke to Heather Burns, who played Christina, about the horror that is having to move! TO BROOKLYN! and learned that Nora Ephron served crab cakes on set
not usually one for prompt Twitter but my sister ordering a rowing machine in the early traumatic months of covid and then, after tons of hold ups and back and forth, receiving instead a small plastic satchel of synthetic hair, still makes me choke
it’s time for another round of:
please tell me about a time you laughed so hard you cried. (not from tv/movies/internet. It has to be an IRL situation) Even if it’s an inside joke and you don't think it will be funny to anyone else – i still want to hear it. thank you
Today is my last day at Refinery29. I have been trying to write this tweet all day, so instead I'll share the message I sent to the team and the photo taken on my very first day as a full-time writer, when I was feeling the luckiest I've ever felt. I still do.
the latest "trend" is influencers with day jobs, but this movement is born out of a larger frustration with the creator industry that might be reaching a tipping point
Taylor Swift getting canceled for dating someone because of his appearance on The Adam Friedland Show has finally given my boyfriend and I a single shred of pop culture we can talk about <3
"Rather than a standalone platform, as it was in its early days, TikTok has become the ocean into which—and out of which—the streams of all the other platforms run. It’s no longer a corner of the internet, but the whole town square."
Jury Duty has been a slow burn among audiences outside of TikTok, but is one of the funnier shows to have come out this year. I spoke to Ronald about his experience, and what it was like to learn he was at the center of such an elaborate prank:
@jennyslate
"It makes sense to me that where I would finally land and have my life partnership is in a house for partying. I wouldn't be upset if I saw one of those party ghosts and I wouldn't be upset if I became one one day."