![]() “Where we had once been free to be ourselves online,” she writes, “we were now chained to ourselves online.” She then explores how it all became corrupted, the endless possibilities of the internet growing harsher and meaner, until it felt like we had become at the mercy of an online world that had shaped our real-world personalities for the worse. During Trick Mirror, her first collection of essays, she writes about her earliest memories of the digital world, the Angelfire web page she filled with choppy HTML flourishes and Dawson’s Creek references. In her best work, she uses the rise of the internet to chart our collective anxieties. ![]() Her work, as a staff writer for The New Yorker, often doubles as a kind of existential survival guide, regularly driven by how odd it is for a generation to have to navigate a world increasingly lived online, where toxicity, capitalist horror and self-loathing has long bled into our everyday existences. ![]() Jia Tolentino has spent the past decade as our foremost expert on how to exist in the 21st century. ![]()
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