No One is Bored, Everything is Boring
Everything exists on the same plane, ready for instant consumption. This flattening process has the effect of neutralizing some of the potency of counterculture as a site for social organization around shared aesthetic practices, not because it widens the potential for participation, but because it engenders what writer and scholar danah boyd would refer to as context collapse, a phenomenon in which social media platforms collapse discrete social contexts, leading to the confusion and blending of a multitude of relationships and audiences in online interactions.
“they’re just like me, fr: characters, lore, participants”
https://donotresearch.net/posts/everyone-is-bored-everything-is-boring
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/no-one-is-bored-everything-is-boring/
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190214093437/http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?p=5