Andrea Dunlop

So it's like I think we've really our understanding has evolved on like attention being its own kind of currency, right?

especially in this sort of like isolated post-pandemic world where everyone's like – I just think it's like the idea of having a life online is so different than it was in 2013.

I mean, yeah, what do you think about that?

Like how are we living our lives online differently and like how do we understand the currency of attention maybe differently than we did back in the old Gawker blog spot era?

we're all engaging it's like I think about this a lot like that so many people are engaging in a sort of low-grade form of this behavior and like in a very low-grade form right but like I think the apex moment of it for me was that show the uh the secret lives of Mormon wives where you had the mom talk the Whitney mom talk lady who's I don't know if you watch that show at all I watched the first season but like so they have this they have this mom talk so it's a it's a bunch of like hot

super young moms in Mormon, like Utah, and they all do, I don't know, TikTok things.

I just, I only met them via the show.

And one of them was really under fire for doing a TikTok of herself dancing with her baby in the background in the NICU when her baby had RSV.

I remember when that was.

And she was not.

Yeah.

There's no, like, hint of her being an abuser or anything like that.

But obviously this is just, like, a bad look, you know, to be, like, doing TikTok dances next to your baby.

And it's just like – and I was like, oh, something has crossed over.

Like, something has broken through where it's like, yeah, it's like she's doing –

aversion of sort of munchy behavior by like using by using a medical crisis to get attention and sympathy because she knows that like that's why she's sharing it presumably and

And obviously there was like backlash in this incident.

But it's like you can just see where it's like, oh, if someone's posting all of their stuff online and they're already putting a ton of content with their kids online, which I think is like something that we will all look back on in horror in a future era.

Just be like, why did we ever let anyone put pictures of kids online ever for any reason?

But like you're just like, oh, yeah, like this is a lady who's just lost her boundaries.