Taylor Lorenz

I mean, I think places like Gawker manufactured some early like sort of main characters in the sense of like media.

Like I think of, I mean, also in my book, somebody like Julia Allison, who was famous primarily from endless.

gawker i mean gawker just like blogged about her constantly because they just kind of hated her for wearing like a condom dress to a party and she became this like fixation where they would just write about everything she did to the point that she did launch an influencer career off of it because people were just like i guess you're famous now they were calling her a celebrity that's funny

But it was like, okay, this person is blogged about a lot.

And I think of actually early fashion girls.

Like, you know, there were these like people that were like sort of like street style icons that were like sort of was that guy, Nick.

Nick Wooster.

He's just like an early street.

Like, I feel like not necessarily main character, but like Nick was just like extremely stylish and fashion photographers were just like photographing him all the time on fashion blogs because blogs were a thing.

And so like.

it's again it's not really the same as main character but i feel like it started to be the thing of like attention sort of like coalescing around someone i guess it's also though in those cases it's not so much that they were posting it was that people were posting about them

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Yes.

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But it's like social media wasn't there yet, but that's literally what that was.

I mean, so many early women dealt with that.

This was also amidst, I think it was 2010 when the iPhone added the front facing camera, but you saw the moral panic about selfies and it would be like, look at this evil child.

This 13 year old took a selfie at Auschwitz.