౨ৎ Girl blog - by terry nguyen - Vague Blue

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🎀 MENTIONED: Jia Tolentino’s “The Personal Essay Boom is Over”; Laura Bennett’s “The First Person Industrial Complex”; Merve Emre’s “Two Paths for the Personal Essay”; Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and The Story; Emily Gould’s “The Lure of Divorce”; Lauren Oyler on Jia Tolentino; Biz Sherbert on girlbloggers, Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight. It was a big week for personal essays, specifically personal essays published by The Cut. For awhile, the personal essay was rumored to be dead in the rotting ditch of mid-2010s blog culture, felled by the profit-driven corporatization of digital media. Here, cause was mistaken for effect. When the first-generation blogs (xoJane, Gawker, The Awl, Buzzfeed Ideas) that fed the “first person industrial complex” shuttered, their failures were chalked up to a matter of strategy. The personal essay, by affiliation, was deemed passé, a relic of an optimistic period of online publishing. In pursuit of eternal virality, digital media sites pivoted from opini

Perfect Blue, 1997 🎀 MENTIONED: Jia Tolentino’s “The Personal Essay Boom is Over”; Laura Bennett’s “The First Person Industrial Complex”; Merve Emre’s “Two Paths for the Personal Essay”; Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and The Story; Emily Gould’s “The Lure of Divorce”; Lauren Oyler on Jia Tolentino; Biz Sherbert on girlbloggers, Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight. It was a big week for personal essays, specifically personal essays published by The Cut. For awhile, the personal essay was rumored to be dead in the rotting ditch of mid-2010s blog culture, felled by the profit-driven…

౨ৎ Girl blog - by terry nguyen - Vague Blue

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