Bringing the despondence that comes with a prolonged job search in a surveillance economy onchain

This custom print that's hanging in my living room features WordArt-style lyrics to "Drama Queen (That Girl)", as performed by Lindsay Lohan in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004).

Drake’s poetry book, Titles Ruin Everything, doesn’t make us feel anything the way the “I’m Upset” music video – with cameos by the original Degrassi cast – did.

As the social media savvy blueprint for sad bois, late-night texters, overthinkers, and drunk college girls everywhere, Social Media Ruins Everything is a more apropos title. Let’s commemorate Drake’s normalization of emotional self expression in the digital age.

Now presenting SOCIAL MEDIA RUINS EVERYTHING: a collection of Drake lyrics that we sincerely used as Facebook album names, Instagram and Snapchat captions, and TikTok trends.

This book accompanies my Sixposium presentation, SOCIAL MEDIA RUINS EVERYTHING:
youtu.be/Mbo4TbLrr5M?si=QD_IuHQI5kAcGzdz

╰☆☆ 𝕀 𝓶ⓐｊσⓇεᗪ ⓘℕ ƒ𝒶ｓ𝐡ⓘσ𝓝 𝕄𝒆Ř¢𝒽𝒶ℕ∂Ꭵ𝕤ιℕᎶ 𝔞ｔ Đᗝ𝐋𝕝ℤ Ǘᑎ𝕀𝓿ẸⓇⓢίту. Ⓜч ℱᎥ𝐫s𝕥 ĴσⒷ Ⓦ卂Ｓ 卂т 𝓉𝔥ｅ ∂𝓸Ļℓ𝕫 Μ卂ⓝᶤ𝔸 𝓜𝓐Ł𝓵. Ⓘ Ｍㄖνє๔ 𝔱σ 𝕟Ｅ𝕨 Ўᗝŕⓚ 𝐜ί𝓉Ⓨ 丅𝓞 ω𝑜𝓻Ҝ 𝐚t 𝕋𝓱€ 𝔡ⓞ𝕃Ｌ乙 ℍＥ𝔸𝔻Ǫ𝓤𝕒гｔẸʳ𝕤. Ⓘ Ａ𝐌 𝓽н𝐄 𝕕𝐨Ⓛl ｉ 𝔞𝔩ώ𝔞𝓨𝓼 ｗᵃŇ丅Ⓔ𝕕 ᵗό Ｂ𝐞. Ꭵ ℃ᵃŇ ร𝕖𝓵ㄥ 𝕒𝓷𝕐𝕋𝓗ⓘ𝕟Ꮆ. ι ⓐᵐ 𝓹尺𝕖Ŧｔㄚ. 𝓲 𝓪𝓶 𝓼𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓷𝔂. Ⓜү 卄𝐚Ⓘ𝕣 𝐈Ş ⓅᗴяŦ𝐞ς丅. мⓎ η𝕒ⒾˡŜ 𝒶гᵉ 𝐩𝔢ｒғⒺｃ丅. Μｙ 𝕊ҜƗ𝐍 丨𝐒 ρ𝑒ＲＦ𝕖𝐜𝔱. Ⓜ𝓎 ⓞｕ𝓉𝔣ⓘ𝐓 丨𝕊 𝐏єŘ𝐅𝐄𝔠丅. ᵐⓨ 𝕝ⓘⓕ𝐞 𝓲𝔰 𝓅ⓔⓡᶠєĆ𝓣. 🎀 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉. ☆☆╮

Read the essay: nicstalgia.substack.com/p/i-am-any0ne-u-want-me-2b

｡･ﾟ･☆✧∞༺♥༻∞✧☆･ﾟ･｡ Dance around your room like your crush signed onto AIM. Sing your old MySpace song on the top of your lungs. Let your inner teenager run wild. Be whoever you want to be. Get a flip phone.