you, a normie: this is an apple...ok me, a millennial media journalist: this apple is a MAGA symbol...I read about it on a forum...please pay me $75 for this pitch or put me on a podcast...I have this one anime avatar lunatic on Twitter I dm with ready to go "on the record"
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you, a normie: I will eat the apple me, a millennial media journalist: they are eating the apples...this is fascism...this is Weimar...I am sending anonymous emails to all your bosses...you're done, apple maga normies
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everything that is my culture, like watching the muscle sports and drinking milk instead of beer and eating red meat and lifting w8s and playing the video games in a t-shirt with a picture of a video game character on it...has been the subject of a thumbsucking "it's MAGA" take
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meanwhile I get asked by the Atlantic and other places to write things that end up being "it's not maga...it's complicated like most things are complicated...most people are not really in one extremely online camp or another...they just want likes on their thirst pics" takes
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the strangest thing about the explosion of the "it's maga" coverage in 2016 was how many millennial media writers were "cybering" on Twitter with a handful of anime avatar accounts ("reporting") or emailing tips/hateful gossip to people like Milo (as the Broadly editor did)
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