Systems pushed too far in one direction eventually summon their opposite. Once I started looking at internet culture through that lens, I couldn't unsee what was coming.
There was a time — in the days when the internet was still a force for fun — when Chuck Norris jokes flooded our screens. It was the mid-2000s. Twitter and Facebook were not yet ascendant. We weren't yet glued to our phones.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.