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Show Me to Me, Please: How Online Were You in May?
Send it to me, Rachel.
Anyone who reads the news felt that the juxtaposition of the decadent Met Gala with the devastating humanitarian crisis in Gaza was too much to witness, inspiring a groundswell of some TikTok users to launch an initiative to block celebrities on social media. The video is just eight seconds long, but Kate’s extremely adult response to being asked who wants to go to the Four Seasons Orlando (“Me!” with a finger raised to the sky like a precocious victorian child) is both bone-chilling and mesmerizing and has inspired an explosion of memes that have yet to get old. The point, clearly, was to show the entire world of music, TV, art, and more can be found in this teeny, tiny device but ended up functioning more as a metaphor about how big tech has stomped all over these creative industries in pursuit of endless profit.
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