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This Is Why!'s avatar

After hearing about Reddit snark pages on Tiktok, I recently bumped into a few and was shocked to see how detailed they are. At all hours of the day, people are following the minutia of so many people at once. It's interesting because these redditors claim to hate influencer culture, but the forums are full of names I've never heard of, aside from a few huge names, so the people who frequent these forums seem to be extremely plugged into the lives almost every major influencer in their cities while also deeply resenting their existences LOL.

Everyone has a few influencers they really dislike of course, but the level of dedication to the hatred in a such a concentrated way seems so exhausting. Really enjoyed this piece, and so true that if this energy was exerted elsewhere, the possibilities would be amazing. -- MF

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I remember thinking a lot about this during the Depp vs. Heard trial, when so many Depp defenders (many of which are women) used the occasion as an opportunity to dogpile on Amber Heard, mainly drawing attention to her “ugly” crying faces in court. I’m sure many of these people care about stopping domestic abuse, but most only chose to organize when they decided the victim was a grown man and the abuser was a conventionally beautiful woman they could snark on. So convenient.

Great piece as always!

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