Taylor Lorenz

There's something about this that I appreciate in the sense that I'm like, okay. That's fine. This is a weird creative thing and you want to sail down the thing with chickens. That's fine. That's creative. We all do creative things to feed our souls.

There's something about this that I appreciate in the sense that I'm like, okay. That's fine. This is a weird creative thing and you want to sail down the thing with chickens. That's fine. That's creative. We all do creative things to feed our souls.

The problem is when you give someone this enormous amount of power and money and sort of start to take what they have to say as intellectually rigorous or something. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

The problem is when you give someone this enormous amount of power and money and sort of start to take what they have to say as intellectually rigorous or something. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

Also, so much of Tumblr was just pseudo-intellectual nonsense. My own blog probably included.

Also, so much of Tumblr was just pseudo-intellectual nonsense. My own blog probably included.

First of all, I think people have a hard time if you've never been on it and probably didn't spend your formative years on it to remember that blogging and writing was the dominant form of expression on the internet at that time because you couldn't upload photos and So people were just writing and like, right. Like most people are not brilliant writers or thinkers. Right.

First of all, I think people have a hard time if you've never been on it and probably didn't spend your formative years on it to remember that blogging and writing was the dominant form of expression on the internet at that time because you couldn't upload photos and So people were just writing and like, right. Like most people are not brilliant writers or thinkers. Right.

Like, and, and this was also the era of like, yeah, it was like pseudo intellectual of like, you know, it was very like book culture and like early kind of like Buzzfeed. Like I'm a reader, like fetishizing reading and being intellectual and like kind of being smart and, Because again, the best bloggers of that era, like the big time bloggers were smart, right?

Like, and, and this was also the era of like, yeah, it was like pseudo intellectual of like, you know, it was very like book culture and like early kind of like Buzzfeed. Like I'm a reader, like fetishizing reading and being intellectual and like kind of being smart and, Because again, the best bloggers of that era, like the big time bloggers were smart, right?

You had to have something to say to succeed well. You had to be smart. You had to be interesting. You had to be intellectual. And so I just think like so much of Tumblr was that. And it was a lot of young people.

You had to have something to say to succeed well. You had to be smart. You had to be interesting. You had to be intellectual. And so I just think like so much of Tumblr was that. And it was a lot of young people.

No matter how brilliant you are at like 20, you're not going to have the most like fully formed opinions because your brain is not developed and because you have literally almost no life experience. And so when you give someone like that a platform, I mean, I don't know, I've deleted

No matter how brilliant you are at like 20, you're not going to have the most like fully formed opinions because your brain is not developed and because you have literally almost no life experience. And so when you give someone like that a platform, I mean, I don't know, I've deleted

most traces of what i've written from those eras but like it was just sort of like encouraged right to like pseudo intellectualize and like and overanalyze your life or culture or whatever and i feel like that probably fed right into someone like her where it's like that's she's clearly that type of person already i pulled a few tweets from like the last few weeks grimes on twitter it is so monumentally embarrassing that i am finally getting into christianity because it's the only way i can quit vaping

most traces of what i've written from those eras but like it was just sort of like encouraged right to like pseudo intellectualize and like and overanalyze your life or culture or whatever and i feel like that probably fed right into someone like her where it's like that's she's clearly that type of person already i pulled a few tweets from like the last few weeks grimes on twitter it is so monumentally embarrassing that i am finally getting into christianity because it's the only way i can quit vaping

This is like, you know, that tweet that's like, this must hit so hard if you're dumb. Yeah.

This is like, you know, that tweet that's like, this must hit so hard if you're dumb. Yeah.

that's how i feel reading these i'm like what the hell sure what the hell sure i don't want to hate on her because i like these people like i maybe it's just i am predisposed to like i i think because like personally like and this is why i'm a journalist like i love like thinking of weird like alternatives or like i love listening to people like rant about their own weird theories about something like

that's how i feel reading these i'm like what the hell sure what the hell sure i don't want to hate on her because i like these people like i maybe it's just i am predisposed to like i i think because like personally like and this is why i'm a journalist like i love like thinking of weird like alternatives or like i love listening to people like rant about their own weird theories about something like