Ryan Broderick

The closest thing we could find to like someone like a main character was actually from your book, which was Liz Eswin.

Who had an Instagram account, basically.

She was posting the New York City Instagram account at the time, basically.

But before that, you know, in the two thousands, uh, you, you, you had like star Wars kid, you had Antoine Dodson, you had these people who be came internet figures, but like, it wasn't the same thing.

No, I mean, some of them have... Like, Star Wars Kid, I guess, he was pretty mad about it.

There's, like, weird ethics around auto-tuning Antoine Dodson, basically talking about, like, a man breaking into people's homes and raping them.

But, like... And there's a whole other thread here of, like, in the 2000s, posting, like, viral clips of, like, particularly Black people on local news was, like, a whole thing.

And you get the start of world star hip-hop becoming kind of big in the early 2010s, and that kind of goes in one direction.

And then you have...

You have the separation of like the viral thing and the meme like happens around like 2009 and like 2013.

Basically, I get separates probably because of places like Gawker and BuzzFeed.

Yeah, there is something there about – like there's something to that in a way.

And I do think a lot of the internet is returning to that where it's like you are doing – like Timothee Chalamet's entire Oscar campaign was to do things that other people would post about.

Clavicular's whole deal is like being clipped by other people, right?

Like it is coming back into fashion.

There is one blog here that actually would be – like is very useful to talk about because I hadn't really put it together until just now that it is absolutely a proto like main character factory, Hipster Runoff.

The sort of line from Hipster Runoff to Gawker is like so clear where like, you know, you had this like basically like a harassment campaign against What's Her Face from Best Coast for like several years.

And Carl's or Charles or whatever from Hipster Runoff was very, very aggressive at women in particular, like going after how young women were using MySpace and playing music and sort of doing that thing that is now, I think, becoming more fashionable again as well, which is like,

I saw someone phrase this perfectly the other day and I forget who said it and I'm really sorry, but it was something like basically people are replacing the word bourgeoisie on the Internet with women.

Like everything that a woman does is inherently considered capitalistic and thus should be ridiculed.