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2 links collected from theawl.com between 2016 and 2023

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2016

2016-01-19 theawl.com
The Triumphant Rise of the Shitpic - The Awl
Shitpics happen when an image is put through some diabolical combination of uploading, screencapping, filtering, cropping, and reuploading. They are particularly popular on Instagram.

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2023

2023-10-13 theawl.com
A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum
An effective chumbox clearly plays on reflex and the subconscious. The chumbox aesthetic broadcasts our most basic, libidinal, electrical desires back at us. And gets us to click. Clicking on a chumlink — even one on the site of a relatively high-class chummer, like nymag.com — is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser chum.

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