“Because some social media trends birth some aesthetics that never die, here are some of the best soft girl examples in horror movies.”— Natalia Vela, Creepy Catalog, creepycatalog.com
“I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation.”— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Charles Addams, Wednesday Addams, Jenna Ortega, imdb.com
“Relatability is rewarded, but at what cost? Because now I'm sharing so many personal details about myself with six million people, who can in turn, weaponize that and use it against me.”— Brittany Broski, papermag.com
“TikTok is a sign of the future, which already feels like a thing of the past. It is the clock counting down our fifteen seconds of fame, the sound the world makes as time is running out.”— Barrett Swanson, harpers.org
“Don’t hate them because they’re beautiful — ask yourself why you’re not.”— EJ Dickson, rollingstone.com
“I thought, like, I’m not really talented or anything, so maybe I just need to try and offend as many people as possible to get money.”— Trisha Paytas, vulture.com
“We reached out to the Clubhouse press contact listed on its website twice for comment, but received only automated responses.”— Jack Morse, mashable.com
“I am not performing my totality on social media. No one is; no one should. What should we expect from people we follow? That they act like people, and we respond in kind.”— Alicia Kennedy, aliciakennedy.news
“It became second nature to compare my appearance to every person who caught my eye, so I found myself in this continuous cycle of picking at my face while slowly watching my self confidence plummet before my very eyes.”— Orion Carloto, nylon.com
“When you back young women into a corner, making it clear that men can harass, assault, and rape them with little to no consequence, it’s incredibly naive to expect them to remain silent.”— Jessica Valenti, gen.medium.com
“At many points in 2020, it felt better to simply stop posting altogether.”— Stella Bugbee, thecut.com
“The quickness of social media allows for forms of vitriol that do not exactly support thoughtful debate. We need to cherish the longer forms.”— Judith Butler, newstatesman.com
“In a new interview, the TikTok skincare star, Hyram, revealed that garnering more than six million followers, and becoming a bonafide presence in the beauty space, all started with a trip to Sephora.”— Lauren Rearick, nylon.com
“Controversial teen influencer Danielle Cohn says she made a mistake after backlash erupted across her social media channels because people believed she was trying to pass Ashanti's 2002 hit song "Foolish" as her own.”— Tanya Chen, buzzfeednews.com
“Experts predict our reliance on these positions will continue to grow in the future, even if our appreciation of the people filling them does not.”— Greta Rainbow, money-com.cdn.ampproject.org
“This is my history; it doesn’t belong only to him just because we’re no longer an item.”— Jessica A, psiloveyou.xyz