Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

Twitter is basically Nextdoor for media millennials in the “three real cities” (NY/DC/LA)

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)

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...

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

(except for a bit of in-joking about the hot taking)