Our feeds are filling up with illegible content, and every day it gets harder to find common ground. Is social media in a death spiral? And if so, what comes next? There’s a genre of post that’s been circulating online for a while now. It features a borderline-nonsensical meme, like… the lime-green album cover for …
The filmmaker’s latest project is an aggregator of contemporary internet culture ‘vibes’ “Right in front of my eyes we’re all turning into animals and there’s no turning back.” This is a line from Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft but it could easily be said to describe what it feels like to be online today. The ‘man-made …
A rising star in the Chinese hyperpop scene, Billionhappy is making his mark on the Shanghai underground with blissed-out tracks that are garnering tens of millions of streams. Having toured with the likes of Beijing rapper Blood Boiz, his music is a spacey restructuring of classic Chinese pop songs blitzed together with glitchy beats and …
The show’s fourth season examines the strange, symbiotic relationship between our two most basic desires: ‘innovation and getting off’ Over the last four decades, the internet has transformed the way we have, talk about, and view sex. What’s less spoken about is the symbiosis of this relationship. Sex has always been a driving force in …
With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies I am sitting on the tube on my way to a casting when opposite me I see an ad for an insurance company. The model …