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Kate Wagner, of McMansion Hell internet fame, takes words out of my brain and refines them then puts them into this piece.

“Like many people my age and older, I miss the pre–social media internet. The new internet knows this, and it capitalizes on my nostalgia as it eats away at the old internet. It amounts to an unforeseen form of technological cannibalism.”