Sitemap - 2025 - The Etymology Nerd

the rise of pseudo-trends

the non-places of social media

the importance of not knowing

platform logic

67, clip farming, and the panopticon

your phone is a fake house

the gooner and the caveman

feeling without thinking

notes on slop

why platforms are killing the hashtag

the engagement economy

how to look at social media

what the evils of TV reveal about the evils of social media

neural networks are changing our vibes

against content

stay on your phone

how social media subjugates us

algorithmic performativity

ALGOSPEAK IS NOW OUT IN BOOKSTORES

I see more stars online than in the sky ✨

social media and the collapse of ritual

banality of the algorithm

why you should be smelling more things

you're literally worshipping your phone

what the “algorithm” is, what you think it is, and why those aren't the same

the default isn't always best

there is no online authenticity

substack's discoverability paradox

algorithms are killing coincidences. what does that mean for language?

technofeudalism and the death of serendipity

the ritual of the algorithm

cutting through the image

I interviewed the racist Instagram slop creators

slop capitalism and dead internet theory

an elegy for the pencil

when everything becomes a fragment

survivorship bias and the algorithmic gaze

how the algorithm keeps you under control

the "algorithmic gaze" affects everything you see online

you're never the intended audience

the DEI funding bans are going to change our language

how hopelesscore became even more hopeless

when did brainrot begin?

the "contentification" of culture

skibidi toilet and dialectic analysis