We thought we were going to get out into the world in 2022. Instead, the internet got worse ✒️ sarahmanavis rounds up social media's most unhinged moments
This disaster wasn’t exclusive to just a handful of social media sites, but affected seemingly every mainstream platform in existence. Instagram’s transparent attempts to become TikTok, focusing on Reels and suggested videos, made it loathed by long-standing users.
But it wasn’t just platforms that were bad in 2022. Social media discourse itself was unhinged, starting the year with the alleged harm of West Elm Caleb, moving onto nepo babies and faux-outcry over feral girl summer, ending the year with articles going viral that have half the internet claiming that any form of conflict is emotional abuse.
A “good” social media platform is now something of an oxymoron: even if one could exist in theory, our now baked-in online behaviours – that incentivise going to the extreme – make it an impossible feat in practice. It feels like there are very few spaces online where you can simply have fun.
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