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Taylor Lorenz’s Plan to Dance on Legacy Media’s Grave | The New Yorker

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During the past decade, the journalist Taylor Lorenz has been known for writing about Internet influencers from within legacy media, translating the arcane laws of online virality for the traditional news consumer. Her career highlights include writing articles that brought to the mainstream such slang terms as the Gen-Z taunt “O.K., boomer”; publicly identifying Chaya Raichik, of the previously anonymous right-wing troll account Libs of TikTok; and breaking news of influencers being courted at the Biden White House. Her book “Extremely Online,” published last year, chronicles the rise of influencerdom in a tone of rosy inevitability, casting the emergence and the monetization of online fame as forms of civilizational achievement. Lorenz’s journalism has been amplified, for better and for worse, by the fact that she has always been extremely online herself, provoking and participating in pitched discourse battles. Alongside her recent work, as a full-time columnist for the Washington P

Save this story Save this story During the past decade, the journalist Taylor Lorenz has been known for writing about Internet influencers from within legacy media, translating the arcane laws of online virality for the traditional news consumer. Her career highlights include writing articles that brought to the mainstream such slang terms as the Gen-Z taunt “O.K., boomer”; publicly identifying Chaya Raichik, of the previously anonymous right-wing troll account Libs of TikTok; and breaking news of influencers being courted at the Biden White House. Her book “ Extremely Online ,” published last

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