PJ Vogt

It's an entirely different experience to be sat in front of a teenage girl's internet, thrown into her phone, forced to see things from her perspective for many hours. I had to talk to the filmmaker who told this off.

Lauren Greenfield. She's covered the very wealthy. She's tried to understand thinness culture among teenage girls. Her power is she lets us, her audience, into worlds that are typically hidden.

Lauren Greenfield. She's covered the very wealthy. She's tried to understand thinness culture among teenage girls. Her power is she lets us, her audience, into worlds that are typically hidden.

Lauren Greenfield. She's covered the very wealthy. She's tried to understand thinness culture among teenage girls. Her power is she lets us, her audience, into worlds that are typically hidden.

So I want to ask you a lot of questions about just how you made this. I'm just curious even, it's a very ambitious project. Like, where did the idea from this come from? Like, where did you even start to think about this?

So I want to ask you a lot of questions about just how you made this. I'm just curious even, it's a very ambitious project. Like, where did the idea from this come from? Like, where did you even start to think about this?

So I want to ask you a lot of questions about just how you made this. I'm just curious even, it's a very ambitious project. Like, where did the idea from this come from? Like, where did you even start to think about this?

Lauren actually got this idea during COVID, when we were all stuck at home, when her kids, when many kids, screen time went totally stratospheric. COVID itself, a series of social experiments. Many of those experiments, in retrospect, about the internet, what happens to our culture when you put even more of it online.

Lauren actually got this idea during COVID, when we were all stuck at home, when her kids, when many kids, screen time went totally stratospheric. COVID itself, a series of social experiments. Many of those experiments, in retrospect, about the internet, what happens to our culture when you put even more of it online.

Lauren actually got this idea during COVID, when we were all stuck at home, when her kids, when many kids, screen time went totally stratospheric. COVID itself, a series of social experiments. Many of those experiments, in retrospect, about the internet, what happens to our culture when you put even more of it online.

But Lauren, seeing how this was affecting her son, starts to think how she would ask her questions as a documentary series. She really wants to figure out how you'd basically film two overlapping documentaries at the same time, both capturing the events happening in these teenagers' real lives and the events happening simultaneously in their phones, in their digital imaginations.

But Lauren, seeing how this was affecting her son, starts to think how she would ask her questions as a documentary series. She really wants to figure out how you'd basically film two overlapping documentaries at the same time, both capturing the events happening in these teenagers' real lives and the events happening simultaneously in their phones, in their digital imaginations.

But Lauren, seeing how this was affecting her son, starts to think how she would ask her questions as a documentary series. She really wants to figure out how you'd basically film two overlapping documentaries at the same time, both capturing the events happening in these teenagers' real lives and the events happening simultaneously in their phones, in their digital imaginations.

Wait, and so what you're saying is on an iPhone, there's something called screen recording that is exactly what it sounds like, where you can just say everything that happens on my screen record it and make a video file. I use that sometimes like when my mom in Pennsylvania has a question about how to delete something, I'll go through the process on my phone and I'll send it to her.

Wait, and so what you're saying is on an iPhone, there's something called screen recording that is exactly what it sounds like, where you can just say everything that happens on my screen record it and make a video file. I use that sometimes like when my mom in Pennsylvania has a question about how to delete something, I'll go through the process on my phone and I'll send it to her.

Wait, and so what you're saying is on an iPhone, there's something called screen recording that is exactly what it sounds like, where you can just say everything that happens on my screen record it and make a video file. I use that sometimes like when my mom in Pennsylvania has a question about how to delete something, I'll go through the process on my phone and I'll send it to her.

But what you're saying is something like Snapchat, which has disappearing images as part of its architecture, when you try to screen record that, it just won't show up?

But what you're saying is something like Snapchat, which has disappearing images as part of its architecture, when you try to screen record that, it just won't show up?

But what you're saying is something like Snapchat, which has disappearing images as part of its architecture, when you try to screen record that, it just won't show up?

I mean, it's totally hypnotic to watch. You mean that basically you're seeing, like one of the opening scenes, they're doing the welcome assembly.