Twitter is basically Nextdoor for media millennials in the “three real cities” (NY/DC/LA)
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How else does something as marginal as Red Yenta get a New Yorker write-up? Honestly, the niche fitness influencers I interview and the subcultures I follow at least have hundreds of thousands of people who are aware of them (just not on Twitter)
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much of the cultural stuff in the NYT is really just the culture of a few dozen editors buying the stuff and a few hundred NYC or NYC adjacent millennials selling it ... “all the news that’s fit to print.” I used to think that was real culture, as opposed to agriculture, but...
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I'll never claim my work is any good, but as people who went to grad school or college with me can attest, it is almost totally free of hot-topical context. I do the work of doing the work but I don't "do the work" of hot taking and in-joking if you get what I mean
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Yes, absolutely right, games are just gamer gate. Fitness is often just “are fitness people MAGA? Or incel? Or transphobic?” even though the community is much more complicated than that. And so on
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My favorite was when the Outline wrote an article bitching about dine-in movie theaters and one of two brands mentioned literally ONLY has two locations, period, in Brooklyn
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Report on what you know...keep it local...but since you're in NYC, it's all global, right? "Pollen restaurants: sweeping the nation since eating pollen began a week ago in an up-and-coming airbnbistro in Rosedale..."
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Wait she did????? Lmao
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new yorker is probably run by some kind of wishy washy vapid communist-lite folx who graduated from the prestigious university pipeline full of poisonous nonsense. *wipes froth from mouth* therefore they overrate some things and underrate others
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