Why Has Social Media Lost Its Fun?

Head to http://squarespace.com/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ NEWSLETTER / ESSAYS https://minale.substack.com/ ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX ➤ CONTACT Business email: gremlitaa@gmail.com ➤ SOURCES https://okwnews.com/news/lifestyle/health-wellness/black-mirror-or-black-hole-american-phone-screen-time-statistics/ The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age by Ben Agger Portraits in Life and Death (Intro) by Susan Sontag https://mark.kerrigan.co/posts/2024/portraits-in-life-and-death.pdf https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/wild-fans-outraged-tiktok-influencers-012801362.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuTwM6jB9JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xEi8qg266g https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573 https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/heartfield/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSTqokjNEE https://www.readloosey.com/p/have-we-all-lost-our-minds?selection=7107ba8e-ddb2-4b71-9dc6-e594cac43ab3 https://phys.org/news/2023-06-toxic-ideas-online-irony-analysis.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e5a5140-8f17-4a37-b1c8-34f0d72746bc_750x562.jpeg https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-irony-bro E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/literacy_report.pdf https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/meta-censorship-moderation/index.html https://substack.com/inbox/post/155290235?utm_source=unread-posts-digest-email&inbox=true&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true https://embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-just-have-to-be-bored 0:00 - intro 3:36 - when social media was fun 15:18 - the algorithm 23:09 - the irony problem 35:59 - conclusion