How Trump turned the 'fun' internet into a coping mechanism

I don't need to tell you that being online is less fun than it used to be. 

The internet has, of course, always sported a vicious underbelly, particularly for members of marginalized communities. Now, though, the whole thing has been boiled down into two halves: the dreadful, perpetually memed news cycle and our increasingly futile attempts at escaping it.

The primary complaint about Twitter, or at least the stereotypical one, used to be that "no one cares what you're eating for breakfast" — that the network was too crowded with personal minutiae to be of use. Well, at least that boring stuff was non-toxic. Now, our president's preferred way to communicate with the public is on that same platform, which had been plagued with Nazis, trolls, and bigots even before his rise to power. Read more...

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