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Personal Style Is Dead And The Algorithm Killed It

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We are no longer adopting trends popularized on social media, we're letting apps themselves create them.

The concept of the “stock character” dates all the way back to Ancient Greek theatre, the time of Aristophanes and Aeschylus, when actors would don large masks with static expressions and (in comedic theatre) large prosthetic phalluses. The presence of the stock character, much like the mask, was simple: to immediately alert an audience to a character’s nature and motivations. Many of these plays did not dwell on the individuals depicted, forsaking character growth for plot movement. Some stock characters have stuck around (tropes of the lover, the mother, the fool, the hero seem as old as…

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