Pathologically boring men (and girlbosses)
Pathologically boring men (and girlbosses)
Twitter as monarchistic machine.
Over the last decade, it seems Americans have come to understand Twitter as a monarchistic machine. A main character is installed at the top, its trending algorithms realign towards him, and then thousands of users try and post just like him in order to court his favor by winning the content lottery.
By Ryan Broderick. Originally published 01/07/22.
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