The Sunday Digest

Another week some way around the sun, another answer to the immortal question:

It was a busy week around here as we began reviewing the final submissions to our Fall ‘21 batch of writers—we’ve gotten some amazing pitches, and could not be more excited to begin publishing five new projects soon! We also welcomed a new team member who’ll be producing our podcasts—thrilled to have you on our side, Sam Deweese! In our Discord, subscribers, writers, and the Every team shared resources on web3 and DAOS and conflict at work, tips for cutting unnecessary words from your writing, and discussed which celebrities are actually CGI.

This week, we published two articles and two podcasts:

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The Anti-Fan Phenomenon: Inside the online communities where people love to hate

Fadeke Adebguyi in Cybernaut

For every fandom, there’s an equal and opposite anti-fandom. On Discord and in forums dedicated to hating on individual influencers, dedicated haters including some former fans gather to discuss the minute details of YouTube videos, TikToks, and Instagram posts—all in the name of revealing some of the internet’s most popular influencers as frauds, phonies, and freaks. Fadeke spoke with some of them, and came back to tell us what she learned.

Content Moderation Double-Bind Theory: The market failures damning content to ever increasing sensationalism