Internet personality
It is not a person. It is a position in a platform economy.
Attention
The scarce resource an entire industry is organised to capture.
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Outrage industrial complex
Outrage isn’t breaking news—it’s the product line.
Rage-baiting
Rage-baiting isn’t bad faith—it’s good maths with bad consequences.
Slow living
Slow living isn’t about quitting the world—it’s about refusing to let speed decide what counts as real.
Cultural impact of TikTok
TikTok didn’t invent virality—it weaponised attention as infrastructure.
Agenda-setting theory
Media don’t change minds — they install the questions minds are allowed to ask.
Algorithmic amplification
Algorithmic amplification isn’t what algorithms do—it’s what happens when we mistake feedback loops for intention.
ASMR
ASMR isn’t relaxation. It’s neural grooming, repackaged for YouTube.
Clickbait
Clickbait isn’t lazy writing — it’s fraud dressed as curiosity.
Digital detox
A digital detox is not liberation—it’s triage for attention under siege.
Doomscrolling
Doomscrolling isn’t about anxiety. It’s about interfaces that won’t let you stop.
Fear of missing out
FOMO is not a new emotion—it’s a diagnostic label for how digital abundance amplifies old fears.
Guerrilla marketing
Guerrilla marketing doesn’t build brands—it borrows attention and returns nothing.
Native advertising
Native advertising doesn’t inform—it disguises. And it works too well.
Product placement
Product placement isn’t subtle advertising—it’s uncredited labour performed by the audience.
Rickrolling
Rickrolling wasn’t a joke—it was the first scalable exploit of hyperlink trust.
Sensationalism
Sensationalism isn’t bad journalism—it’s journalism optimised for attention, not truth.
Shock advertising
Shock advertising doesn’t change minds—it hijacks memory.
Filter bubble
Algorithms don’t trap us—they tailor our cages to fit our habits.
Spectacle
Spectacle isn’t what you watch—it’s how watching replaces doing.
Uses and gratifications theory
People don’t consume media — they deploy it. UGT got that right. Everything else is retrofit.
Attention economy
It’s not about distraction—it’s about who owns your finite cognitive time, and how they bill for it.
The medium is the message
The light bulb has no content—but it remade the night. So do your apps.
Celebrity culture
Celebrity culture isn’t about stars—it’s about what we agree to watch, and how much of ourselves we give up to do it.