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2026 44
- Why I Don’t Write Scene Reports
- The NHL Sanctions Hockey Heartthrobs
- Speaking to the Air
- You Bullied Me! Plus Walter Ong
- I Am Begging You to Bully Me
- With Yumeshipping, Your Heart Has to Be in It or What’s the Point?
- The Sexual Revolution of the Imagination
- Will UFO Research Always Be a Sideshow?
- Different Types of Truth with Jeffrey Kripal
- The Sex Organs of the Machine World
- This Isn’t About Parasocial Attachment
- Minimum Viable Soul
- Ethical AI Monogamy…?
- Should “Technological History” Be a Part of Psych Intakes? (Yes.)
- Logging Back Into Facebook
- It’s Not Supernatural. It’s in My Imagination.
- David/Denise, as seen on MTV's Catfish
- Woke 2
- Understanding Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Murder Through the Lens of the Wendigo
- Political Pornography
- The Benefit of Hindsight in Turkle’s Life on the Screen
- The Usenet Oracle
- Cascade of Singularities
- 11 Things I'm Thinking About While Breastfeeding Two Babies at Once
- There’s a Crack in Everything
- Drifting, Falling, Floating Weightless, Calling Home
- Humanoids in the Loop
- I Spent a Decade in Love With a Vampire on the Internet
- A Klansman Predicted Online Extremism in 1983. What Came Next Is Worse.
- Welcome to LambdaMOO!
- We Thought the Internet Was For Us. It Turns Out It's For AI.
- The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover
- Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
- Maggot Story
- The Future Is Listening, Some Napkin Notes on Anti-Modern Violence
- The Internet Doesn't Want Your Attention. It Wants Your Effort.
- Against American Diner Gothic
- Alright, Let's Debate the Ideas Then
- Load and Run High-tech Paganism-Digital Polytheism
- Gen Z Lives in the Archive
- On the Internet, You Don't Discover Reality. You Create It.
- AI-Generated Cryptids Are More Real Than Real
- [SIC] Talks #116: Katherine Dee
- American Dreamland
2025 84
- And We're Back! Call-In Show Tonight at 8:30 PM Eastern.
- What is Fairyland?
- Giving Up Spotify Premium Gave Me Back My Sanity
- The Great Trip
- Ghost to Ghost
- From Post-literate to Posthuman
- Looksmaxxing and Human Potential
- Ask Me Anything (About Internet Culture)
- Nick Fuentes' Body, Our DeviantArt Account
- The Internet Is the Astral Plane. It's Getting Dangerous.
- Hello There, Welcome to the Nick Fuentes Side of Tumblr
- Your Virtual Friend Is Real. Just Dead.
- The Revolutionary Normie, or When the Normie Began to Hate
- Faces of Internet Overexposure II: Sissy Hypno
- Faces of Internet Overexposure I: Furry Underground
- Even Robots Are Afraid of Death
- Have You Ever Been to Prison?
- It's the End of the World as We Know It
- Hear Me Out: the Anti-Smartphone Thing Is a Grift
- The AI Companion Who Cares
- Not Right, Not-Left, Just Online
- I LIKE Labubus and Dubai Chocolate and Matcha and Lana and Brandy Melville and TikTok Aesthetics and and and
- The Tulpa in Your Pocket
- WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT? JIM ACOSTA
- From al-Qaeda to the Human Potential Movement to Terrorgram
- What the Hell Is Going On With Donna Briggs?
- Burger King Foot Lettuce
- You're Alone and You're Scared but the Banquet's All Prepared!
- FROM THE VAULT: A Master List of Dating Advice
- Lovebombed by the Magi
- (Don't Fear) The Blackpill
- Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis
- An Unabridged Conversation with THE Efilist
- An Unabridged Conversation with an Efilist
- From "Never Die" to Sanctioned Suicide
- An Efilist Just Bombed a Fertility Clinic. Was This Bound To Happen?
- Kissing Fictional Characters
- Madonna/Whore/Best Girl/Waifu
- Limerence and Fictional Companions
- Of Love, Bombs, and Sexbots
- The Trouble with Being Born
- Beware the Digital Mimic
- The Internet as the Astral Plane. The Internet as Fairyland
- In Cyberspace, Delusion Is Power
- Chuck and Buck
- DEFAULT FRIEND KNOWS THE TRUTH
- Natural Instinct vs. Control
- What Comes After Internet Pessimism?
- Using Technology to Get Through to God
- Another Girl, Another Planet
- Roblox Is What Urbit Thinks It Is
- I Am No Longer Asking: Somebody Write Some Gavin Newsom Erotica in English or Else
- This Is What the Zizians Actually Believe
- Clout Alchemy
- The Billionaire, the Influencer and their Baby
- How to Look More Cute, Like a Doll
- Polyamorous with an Asterisk
- An Algorithm Is a Living Thing
- Is the Online Right Turning Into the SJW Left?
- Internalizing the Manosphere
- The Internet Is a Machine to Get Children to Hate Their Parents
- What Is the Cultural Script For Six-Armed Babies? ft. Dr. Josie Zayner
- CUcommunity vs. the Intruder From Harvard
- Internet Morality Can't Be the Same as Meatspace Morality
- Poopity Scoopity: A Review of Kanye West’s Twitter Account
- Internet History Must Always Be an Oral History
- AI Natives
- Extremists Fill the Vacuum
- How Has the Internet Changed Since Tyler Cowen Started Using it?
- The Internet Is a Gun
- You Can Be the Ultimate Fascist on the Stage and People Love You for It
- Cyborg Babies on Adderall
- Our Spiritual Machines (Or: Our Beautiful Animist Future)
- Disenchantment: Revelation of the Mundane
- The Medium Is the Monster
- The Unchecked Libidinal Energy of Politics: A Review of Nancy Mace’s Twitter Account
- Well, TikTok's Gone
- The Internet's Little Red Book
- All Systems Gio
- Yes, There Can Be a Completely Digital Counterculture!
- The Shaman and the Web
- Reviewing "The Female Fantasy Exposed"
- AI and the Return of the Unknowable
- Talking to Computers Is My Default Form of Communication
2024 79
- Housekeeping for Paid Subs
- 🐬 Reality Is What You Make of It 🐬
- If You See the World as a Dead Machine, Atrocities Make Sense
- The Internet Is For Poor People
- The Dumbest Online Right In-Fighting You'll Read About This Week (I Know I Shouldn't Be Writing About It)
- Leftist Men Are Pussies
- Dad's on the DLL
- Why Do We Coddle Gen Z Boys But Think Gen Z Girls Are Annoying?
- I Have No Mouth and I Must Stream
- Claude, the Stars, and You
- We Already Solved Subscription Fatigue
- Traumagotchi Redeemed?
- Friend.com Wants to Trauma Bond With You
- PREVIEW: The Three Archetypes of Internet Overexposure Syndrome
- Good News and Bad News
- Let's Check In on DF's Predictions
- ✨ ✨Custom Video Requests!✨✨
- On the Internet, Your Gender Is an Essence
- Do You Know How To Read Online Social Cues? I Certainly Don't
- I Hate You, Please Stan Me
- Social Inhibition and Isolation in the Digital World
- Be My Escape
- Culture of Borderline Personality Disorder
- All About Summer Wars
- What Does It Mean to Want Kids?
- No, Culture is Not Stuck
- Join Internet Real Life (IRL)
- I'm Bullish on Gatekeeping and IRL Parties
- Adam Lanza Fan Art
- Zero Day Snaps
- New Article in Tablet: Adam Lanza Fan Art
- Newfag
- How to Agree with Yudkowsky and Resist the Blackpill
- Politigram: Case Studies in Political Meme Posting
- Dances with Anthropomorphic Wolves
- Your Cartoon Girlfriend, Brainwashing, and Hyper-Targeted Advertising
- Femcel Friday: Are Femcels Actually Unattractive Women?
- Can You Be "Digitally Molested"?
- McLuhan and Microcomputers
- Gore Videos and Camaraderie Among Young Men
- On Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, Part Two
- The Computer as a Private Part of the Body
- Forum Roleplaying and Mediated Relationships
- How Twitter Killed Context
- Postmodernism Is Cyberspace
- Would You Still Love Me If I Swallowed a Worm?
- Authentic Identity, Micro-Generations, and Oral Culture in Cyberspace
- Just How Damaging Is Hentai?
- The Year When My Husband Started to Act Like a Tsundere Teenage Girl to Get My Attention
- The Digital Is Deceitful Above All Things
- How Message Board Culture Remade the Left
- My Little Polemical
- The Internet Is Power
- It's Not a Religion, It’s a Role Play
- I'm Walking Back My TikTok-Induced Self-Righteousness and Other Dispatches From the Culture War
- Grady and the Real Girl
- The Millennial Left as a Moment in Internet History
- Where Can I Read Katherine Dee's Work?
- What Was the Alt-Right?
- A Cyberethnography of Imagination
- What Is Default Friend All About?
- Dating 6 Women at Once Is the Most Fun a Podcast Bro Can Have Without Getting Cancelled
- My Husband Lives In Another Reality... Literally
- Is Not Giving Your Kid a Smartphone Feasible?
- On Jonathan Haidt's Anxious Generation
- Lesbians Who Only Date Men
- "The kids ARE creating a better world—in their heads."
- Have TikTok Aesthetics Replaced Subcultures?
- /d/: "4chan sexuality."
- seduction.com
- Uglycel
- Uglycel
- Coming of Age as a Gay Nerd Who's Afraid of Sex
- The Difference Between Dissociative and Alternative Identities
- "Friends in your head disorder."
- Profile
- I Love My Waifu
- AI Girlfriends? What About AI Boyfriends?
- Pretty Intense New Year Episode
2023 64
- January Book Club
- 2024 Predictions and My Best Writing From 2023
- New Fiction from Ann Manov's The End
- Man and Animal and Otherkin
- A Conversation With a Young Woman In a Relationship with a Cartoon Character
- Fictional Soul in a Human Body
- The Internet is America
- What's So Alluring About Incest Fic?
- Why Don’t You Take a Seat In Lucas' Room?
- The Myth of "Girl Internet"
- the e-boy's guide to e-dating, e-girls, and e-ating disorders
- Pink Pill Science
- The Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual, or "the Gen Z Bimbo"
- We Don't Like People Who Are Too Nice Because They Make the Rest of Us Look Bad
- The Nihilism of the Mass Shooter
- I'm Talking To Caroline Calloway and Tara Isabella Burton Soon, Link Inside
- What is Cyberspace?
- We're Asking For a Digital Dark Age
- Is There a There in Cyberspace?
- The Printing Press Was the Beginning of the Fragmented Self
- What Will Our Digital Afterlives Look Like?
- No One Is Talking About Fake Accounts
- The Hello Kitty Girl
- Pretty Ugly Little Liars and the Living Dolls Trend
- What Does It Mean When I Say "Politics Are Fandom"?
- Revisiting Coast to Coast AM with Ivy Astrix
- The Internet is for Porn
- Live from the High Desert
- Pornography Is the Obvious Telos of AI-Based Image Generation
- Chat-GPT: Lonely When It's Alone?
- #edtwt as the Analogue to the #SensitiveYoungMan
- Why Don't We Ever See Female Rage, Only Female Despair?
- The Guys I Interviewed For This Piece Really Fucked Me Over Judging By the Reaction From Readers
- Inside the Life of a Professional Patient
- The End of Print Journalism
- In the Future, Everyone Will Be Seen Exactly as They Want to Be for 15 Minutes
- The Difference Between Transformational and Affirmational Fandom
- March Film Club
- Social Media Realism
- Does It Matter That "Demisexual" Came From a 2004 Roleplaying Forum?
- I Don't Want the World, I Just Want Your Half
- America, the Commercial Republic
- humdog's RULES
- Clam Chowder For Idiots
- How Are Ugly Women Represented In Media? Plus Filler as "Self-Care"
- Aegosexuality, the Internet's Own Sexual Orientation
- Online Lucid Dreaming
- No Cowtipping
- February Film Club
- Internet Overexposure Syndrome Impacts All of Us Differently
- Falling In Love Online Means Soul First, Body Last
- Manifestation Is a Cry For Help
- Welcome New Subscribers! Introduce Yourself Below
- Reviewing Humdog's Collected Writing
- A Master List of Dating Advice
- Thursday, the New Sincerity and the Internet
- Confessions of a Gorean Slave
- How Many People Are Living On "Internet Time"?
- Overworked, Overpaid, Undertaxed
- TikTok Is Talking to Me, I'm Listening
- What Is Fictosexuality?
- The Catholic Machine
- (ed)iets
- The History of the Board Ho
2022 94
- My 2023 Predictions
- Where Are You Going? There
- How to Follow Twitter Gender War Sex Advice and Not Get Arrested (You Can't)
- California Is the End of the Frontier
- Sex Robot Engineer, II
- Sex Robot Engineer, I
- Is Disrespecting Strangers on the Internet Psychopathy?
- Default Friend's 2022 Gift Guide
- 2013-2019
- Only Time Can Write a Song That's Really Really Real
- Can You Pair Bond During Cybersex?
- #GamerGate As a Media War
- Processing Your Emotions Through Mediation Isn't Necessarily Narcissism
- We've ALWAYS Used the Internet to Self-Diagnose Plus Maybe Those Guys Who Just Retweet Anime Girls Really Are the Last True Romantics
- Scrolling the Feed Is Increasingly Like Playing Porn Roulette
- The Iowa Pariah
- Fear of a BlackPlanet.com
- Interview with a Sissy
- The Importance of Dedicating Your Life to Primary Texts
- Demons of TikTok
- Finally, Some Good News (An Episode)
- Where's the "It Came From GaiaOnline" Book?
- Suicide-by-Kiwi-Farms
- The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, & Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier
- Reactionary Chic and the Rise of "Racist Liberalism"
- Gaming Is Leaving Gamers Behind
- The Influencers Who Have Haters But No Fans
- Did You Guys Know All Those Dating App Stats Circulating on Twitter Are Misleading?
- Are You a Nymphet?
- Reading Only for the Content
- You’re Going to Be In Adolescence Forever
- How to Date a Guy Who Hates Your Identity for "Political" Reasons
- Everybody Misreads Marshall McLuhan
- The "Witches You Couldn't Burn" Were Probably Christians But Don't Let That Stop You
- The Infowars I Once Knew and Loved
- Why Does Being a "Hot Girl" Have Nothing To Do With Sex? Plus Sissy Hypno and Farming Out Our Intuition to Mystics
- I Don't Understand How You Square Being Genuinely Religious with Freedom of Religion
- Tradcaths Remind Me of "Geek Girls," Also I Think Zoomers Are Faking Their Schizo-posting, Sue Me
- Broadcast Yourself: Fandom and YouTube
- A Scrapbook of the History of Dissociative Identity Disorder Online
- The Internet Imposes a BPD-style Relationship Pattern By Encouraging Early and Unearned Intimacy
- u mIRCin', brah?
- How to Lose Your Virginity
- Casual Sex Doesn't Exist
- Why Don't People RP Anymore?
- The Tokenization of Everything
- Google's Ideological Echo Chamber
- The Ghost of Adam Lanza, Pt. 1
- Welcome to the Group Chat
- The Malling of America
- How to Deal with an Insanely Jealous GF
- Is the TikTok Algorithm Trying to Create Another West Elm Caleb?
- The Importance of Content Curation in an Age of Information Overload
- Before We Had the Word Catfish, We Just Called It "Digital Deception"
- This Used To Be Real Estate
- Three Models of Viewing the World: Autistic, Schizophrenic, and Borderline
- Did Tumblr "Turn Your Kid Trans"?
- Why Do People Act Like the Internet Used To Be Warm and Welcoming? It Never Was!
- Are Our Souls Just What We Project Into Cyberspace? Does Even Asking This Make Me One of Those "Gnostics" I Hear So Much About?
- I Can Just Feel the Meta About How Social Media Ruined Our Lives Coming and I'm Dreading It
- Technology as Extensions of Ourselves, Friends as Technology
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Episode #2
- Technology for Conviviality
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Episode #1
- The RW Profile Pic Shows You Who You Aspire To Be, the LW Profile Pic Shows You Who You Think You Are
- Why Little Dark Age Is TikTok's Most Enduring Meme
- My Advice Co-Columnist Makes Me Print Things Like "Women Aren't People"
- A Recap of Our Conversation About Juno and Scott Pilgrim
- Unedited Field Notes on Different Types of Femcels That Might Be Wildly Inaccurate But Please Don't Tell Me If It is Because I'll Be Extremely Embarrassed
- Paint the Town Paul Town
- What If TikTok Is Brainwashing Us in Ways We Don't Even Realize?
- Discord in the Dark Forest
- Can You Age Out of Internet Culture?
- Complete Erasure of the Self
- Tumblr Posts That Never Happened
- A Defense of Therapy Language and Some Theories About Why People Use It
- Humdog's Essay "pandora's vox"
- How to Stop Being the "Can't Get a GF" Guy
- Computer Poetry
- Surfing From Node to Node on the World Wide Web
- I Am Jack's Emergent Fandom
- TikTok Allows You Fans but Less Influence, Twitter Gives You Fewer Fans and More Influence
- How to Date as an Ex-Mormon
- Raising the Vibration of Olive Oil
- How Do Fans Build Online Infrastructure?
- #MeToo'd in the Metaverse
- Millennial Nostalgia Movie Night
- Everything That's Freaking People Out About TikTok Should Have Already Freaked Them Out About Tumblr
- How to Navigate the Horror House of Kinky Sexuality
- All Those Day-in-the-Life TikToks of Women Goofing Off at Work Are Just Recruitment Videos
- Eating Disorders as DIY Medical Transition
- How to Be the Most Attractive Man Your Girlfriend Has Ever Been With
- #edtwt and Tumblr Sexualized Eating Disorders In a Way Forum and Earlier Web Culture Did Not
- Trend Analysis is Trending and Text-based "Gender"
2021 94
- Hashtag Holidays Are Busywork for Publicists
- TikTok is a Mall and Detransitioners as a Media Identity
- Grief and projection.
- The Press vs. Social Media
- Raking Muck in the Metaverse
- When Lockdowns Are Over, Will There Be a Boom In Companies That Help Us Socially Reintegrate?
- K-Pop is Sex Negative and the "Perpetual Now" of Being Online
- Our Bodies, Our Digital Selves
- Digital Blank Face and Invented Identities
- The Most Famous Blogger in the World Started on Youse-net
- Reading Pleasantville Against American History X
- Remembering The Alphaville Herald
- The Baroque Creoles of the Internet
- Paul Skallas Might Not Be the Greatest Living Writer, But He's a Uniquely Digital Artist
- Remember When Having an "Autistic Meltdown" Over World of Warcraft Was a Meme?
- A critique of right wing art.
- Stills From My Unreleased Short Film
- Ugliness As Internet Shock Value
- Good Artists, But Lindy Artists Steal
- The Post-Pornographic Aesthetic
- The First Wave of "iPad Kids" Were Born in the Early '90s
- Reactionary Chic
- The Early 2000s Hipster Freak Show Aesthetic
- We're Loyal Fans, But Are We Loyal Friends?
- The Relationship Between Pro-anorexia Communities and Early '00s Media
- Is There a "Hot Take" Fandom?
- What Is Right Wing Twitter Talking About When They Talk About "Building an Arts Scene"?
- '90s Media Feels Haunted By the '50s and '60s
- TikTok As a Form of Divination
- Is Emily Mariko "Non-Pornographic Porn"?
- Narratives Need Conflict In a Way That Real Life Doesn't
- Developing Internet Overexposure Syndrome
- Internet Culture Isn't Print Culture, It's Oral Culture
- On A Long Enough Timescale, Everyone With a Platform Turns Into a Lolcow
- The Internet and the Metaverse Are One in the Same
- "Gross" Is the Worst Thing You Can Call a Woman
- Pro-anorexia is the Nexus of All Online Communities
- Stop Wanting to Have Sex
- Affinity-based Identities
- Revisiting the Anscombe Society
- Is Sex "Morally Neutral" or Not?
- Parallel -> Alternative -> Immersive
- Catfishing As a Normie and Image Hoarding
- The Road to Fandom
- Why Won't Anyone Date Nicole Byer?
- The Internet Makes Us All Master Pattern-Matchers
- Angela Nagle on TFW no gf
- Politics and Journalism Function Like Fandoms
- Twitter's Dissident Right Is Following in the Footsteps of Tumblr SJWs
- The Internet's Porous Boundaries Have Changed How We See Ourselves
- What Are "Incel Chasers"?
- Vice Turned Gonzo Journalism Into Clickbait
- Male Pregnancy in Fandom and in the News
- Falling In Love With Someone You've Only Met Online
- It's Normal to "Catch Feelings," So Why Did We Pretend Like It Wasn't?
- TikTok's Sexual Conservatives
- How to Date Someone with an Overprotective Mom
- Why Do I Love Mormons So Much?
- Online Validation Is Porn for Women
- Male-to-male Transsexuals
- Opening Up Is Not a Reliable Indicator of Friendship
- Technologically-Induced Rejection Sensitivity
- Sex and Dating During the Pandemic
- Afterglow
- An Emotional History of the Internet
- Dating as an Orthodox Jew
- Spiderwebs
- The Sunshine Skyway
- The Internet is a Place
- Does Body Count Matter?
- Are the Values You Learned From the Internet Turning You into a LARPer?
- The Coming Wave of Sex Negativity
- Is "Sex Work" Glorified or Am I Up My Own Ass?
- What Do Incels Get Wrong?
- I'll Be a Millionaire By 40 and I'll Buy You a Nice House
- When Did Hating Your Wife Become a Punchline?
- If You Don't Have to Work, Should You?
- Walking Around Downtown Boca
- A Place with No Places
- Sex and the City as Satire
- You Can't Say That on TV
- Optimization vs. Optionality in Dating
- How to Date When You Have a "Past"
- Everyone Talks About Dating But Nobody Talks About Romance
- Are Men Allowed to Wait For Sex?
- Sharing Your Trauma Online Isn't Narcissism, Even If It Isn't Helpful
- When Is "Uncomfortable Sex" Just Rape?
- Adults In Suspended Adolescence
- The War on Boundaries
- Why Does Everyone Suddenly Have BPD?
- Can Women Be Romantically Rejected?
- Another Girl, Another Planet
- The Prince of Least Astonishment
- How to Help the Victim of a Love Scam
2020 38
- Not All Young Women Have Sexual Power
- The Real Culture War Is About How We Use Technology
- Distinguishing Between Optimization Culture and Unlimited Optionality Culture
- Humiliating Yourself on the Internet For Clout
- Uncritical Sex Positivity on the Internet
- Internet Polyamorists
- How to Say Goodbye When There's Nothing Left to Say
- How to Age Gracefully
- Are Our Thoughts "Intellectual Property"?
- Does Our Capacity to Love Diminish After Each New Partner?
- How to Ask for a Raise
- The Case for Mindless Scrolling
- How to Sleep with Your Friends
- How to Tell Your Friend He's Boring
- How to Split the Friends After a Break-up
- How to Live with Someone Who Has COVID-19 Paranoia
- What Makes a Man Marriage Material?
- Why You Can't Move On, Even Though You're Happy
- Is It the Wrong Time or Just the Wrong Person?
- How to be Happy When You're Too Ugly to be Loved
- How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome When You're an Imposter
- How to Stop Fixating on Someone who Hurt You
- How to Become an Occultist
- How to Tell if They're Just Being Polite
- How to Give Good Advice
- How to Start Closing Doors
- How to Forgive Yourself When You've Done the Unforgivable
- How We Define Ourselves Is Not Branding
- How to Date When You Want a Big Family
- When Is OnlyFans an Option?
- How to Flirt on Twitter
- How to Date During Lockdowns
- How to Stop Cutting People Slack
- How to Manage Your Covid-19 Anxiety
- When Patience Isn't a Virtue
- How to Flirt Like a European
- How to Break Up When the Relationship Isn't That Bad
- #0: Your friend, by default.