why is social media not fun anymore?

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➤ NEWSLETTER / ESSAYS
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➤ PRODUCTION
written by Mina Le
edited by Charlee Reiff

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➤ SOURCES
okwnews.com/news/lifestyle/health-wellness/black-m…
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age by Ben Agger
Portraits in Life and Death (Intro) by Susan Sontag
mark.kerrigan.co/posts/2024/portraits-in-life-and-…
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming…
www.aol.com/lifestyle/wild-fans-outraged-tiktok-in…
   • Sincerity: Hollywood's Forgotten Currency  
   • Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?  
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t075…
www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/heartfield/
   • Watch Kamala Harris' viral "coconut tree" ...  
www.readloosey.com/p/have-we-all-lost-our-minds?se…
phys.org/news/2023-06-toxic-ideas-online-irony-ana…
substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_…
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-irony-bro
E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace
www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/literacy_report.…
www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/meta-censorship-modera…
substack.com/inbox/post/155290235?utm_source=unrea…
embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-just-have-to-be-…

0:00 - intro
3:36 - when social media was fun
15:18 - the algorithm
23:09 - the irony problem
35:59 - conclusion