"These are actions that #Meta easily could have taken itself. But why would it spend good money implementing its own policies when there is so little political or regulatory pressure to do so?"
#AIslop
#AI
#socialmedia
#Parasocialmedia
#monetisation
#algorithm
#RegulateSocialMedia
#AIslop
#AI
#socialmedia
#Parasocialmedia
#monetisation
#algorithm
#RegulateSocialMedia
Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia | Niamh McIntyre
Our research has uncovered young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan using AI tools to make deeply objectionable content – and money, says Niamh McIntyre of the Bureau for Investigative Journalism
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
"These are actions that #Meta easily could have taken itself. But why would it spend good money implementing its own policies when there is so little political or regulatory pressure to do so?"
#AIslop
#AI
#socialmedia
#Parasocialmedia
#monetisation
#algorithm
#RegulateSocialMedia
#AIslop
#AI
#socialmedia
#Parasocialmedia
#monetisation
#algorithm
#RegulateSocialMedia
Ariana Grande Learns to 'Set Boundaries' as Fans Demand Autographs in Her Living Room
Ariana Grande announces she's setting boundaries. Fans immediately interpret this as a personal attack. Updates incoming.
#Culture #CelebrityBoundaries #PopCulture #ParasocialMedia #satire
Ariana Grande announces she's setting boundaries. Fans immediately interpret this as a personal attack. Updates incoming.
#Culture #CelebrityBoundaries #PopCulture #ParasocialMedia #satire
Ariana Grande Learns to 'Set Boundaries' as Fans Demand Autographs in Her Living Room
Ariana Grande announces she's setting boundaries. Fans immediately interpret this as a personal attack. Updates incoming.
semitruth.com
August 4, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Ariana Grande Learns to 'Set Boundaries' as Fans Demand Autographs in Her Living Room
Ariana Grande announces she's setting boundaries. Fans immediately interpret this as a personal attack. Updates incoming.
#Culture #CelebrityBoundaries #PopCulture #ParasocialMedia #satire
Ariana Grande announces she's setting boundaries. Fans immediately interpret this as a personal attack. Updates incoming.
#Culture #CelebrityBoundaries #PopCulture #ParasocialMedia #satire
It “leaves you hanging?” Yeah. How about that? ⛪️📺🍷 #monsters #martyrs #media #massmedia #parasocialmedia #postmedia tubitv.com/series/30001...
American Gods
Fresh out of prison, Shadow Moon meets the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday—and is swept into a gathering storm that will upend the course of his life.
tubitv.com
August 2, 2026 at 1:08 AM
It “leaves you hanging?” Yeah. How about that? ⛪️📺🍷 #monsters #martyrs #media #massmedia #parasocialmedia #postmedia tubitv.com/series/30001...
It’s OK if you never come back to new Twitter now that even substack can call itself the new YouTube. #socialmedia #massmedia #parasocialmedia #influencers #aipsychosis
July 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It’s OK if you never come back to new Twitter now that even substack can call itself the new YouTube. #socialmedia #massmedia #parasocialmedia #influencers #aipsychosis
Of course I understand if you don’t want to watch public access TV on a pocket laptop. #massmedia #physicalmedia #parasocialmedia #publichealth through … #beverage pimps?
July 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Of course I understand if you don’t want to watch public access TV on a pocket laptop. #massmedia #physicalmedia #parasocialmedia #publichealth through … #beverage pimps?
Bluesky and the other new Twitter have been good for my progress from influencer to human. Not sure if the progress from “follower” to “subscriber” is going to reabsorb or feed the move from tv to reality tv to social media to #parasocialmedia🫥
July 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Bluesky and the other new Twitter have been good for my progress from influencer to human. Not sure if the progress from “follower” to “subscriber” is going to reabsorb or feed the move from tv to reality tv to social media to #parasocialmedia🫥
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
journals.sagepub.com
May 31, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Oh dang - think I’ve coined a new term: “parasocialmedia”
That shit just ROLLS off the tongue & by god if it ain’t definitionally accurate
That shit just ROLLS off the tongue & by god if it ain’t definitionally accurate
January 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Oh dang - think I’ve coined a new term: “parasocialmedia”
That shit just ROLLS off the tongue & by god if it ain’t definitionally accurate
That shit just ROLLS off the tongue & by god if it ain’t definitionally accurate
I loathed calling the internet, our internet, ‘social media.’ I loathed it all hopelessly…until we started calling it #parasocialmedia
June 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I loathed calling the internet, our internet, ‘social media.’ I loathed it all hopelessly…until we started calling it #parasocialmedia