![]() She’s skeptical of consensus, unconvinced by sentimentality, and her work is regularly the talk of the literary town her takedown of Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror crashed the London Review of Books’ website. On the same internet where we are encouraged to hyperbolize our behavior, to double down when overwhelmed with criticism and then to disappear, Lauren Oyler is best known as a critic-a harsh one. ![]() They also cover the more advanced stages of the disease, where users begin to inhabit a very different kind of personality online: needlessly aggressive, uncommonly flippant, and primed to see all kinds of interaction as a zero-sum game-especially when a poster spends more of their waking time on the internet than off, like during lockdown. These describe the desire to chronicle our days in public as we are living them and to base our satisfaction off the approval of others. We’ve even come up with names for what social media, in particular, does to the human mind after prolonged exposure: brain worms, poster’s brain, terminal onlineness. That’s an uncontroversial statement, but the heavily online continue scrolling anyway. ![]() The internet makes us weird, and we do strange things for attention there. ![]() Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. ![]()
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