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Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus Season Two, 2022. (Fabio Lovino/HBO)

Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus

A riff on The Tale of Genji.

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: anti-rich satire, Oscar-worthy box office flops, and Discord music recs. Plus, Nate Gallant reviews a new novel.

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 Eat the rich / Fiction rec / Ugly times

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Transnational television.

on how Korean dramas became an international streaming content pipeline and a form of soft power.

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The K-drama boom

Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal in Aftersun, 2022. (A24)


Aftersun

Aftersun and digital nostalgia.

on Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun, and the way it tackles how memory is affected by our own digital archives.

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Mementos

A sampling from Kanika Batra’s first TikTok account. (TikTok/@notkanikabatra)

Kanika Batra

Mask off.

on her favorite TikToker, a star with Antisocial Personality Disorder.

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I'm a diagnosed sociopath

Myha'la Herrold in Industry Season 2, 2022. (HBO) 

Myha'la Herrold in Industry Season 2 

Plus HBO's many Harpers.

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: Spotify Wrapped as an attention metric; Netflix loses anime titles; YouTube comments as art; and Are.na for music discovery.

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EOY lists

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The new era of social media.

introduce their favorite Discord servers.


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How to get into Discord(s)

Lindsay Lohan Falling for Christmas

"heh" — SBF

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: Ticketmaster’s Swiftie-induced downfall, “Basic with Ads,” and Twitter DM etiquette with Sam Bankman-Fried.

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Ticketmaster time bomb / Lost vibes

Bobby Cannavale in 'The Watcher.'

What are ghosts compared to a steep mortgage?

on a regular theme in horror films: being trapped in a literal haunted house because you can’t afford to leave.

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Expensive haunted houses

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