Fantasy is irresistible. It is the fabric of dreams and the substance of imagination. Fantasy drives innovation. It lures the future, eternally on the horizon of our lives, within reach. On the social internet, fantasy is fact. It is where we work and idle. Fantasy is how we communicate, the surreality of memes, images, GIFs, and video our mother tongue, the language of this warped and warp-speed generation. What I love and loathe about the social internet is its fondness for play. To exist across its sprawling ecosystem of platforms and apps is to understand it as a playground for many things, but especially identity. On the social internet, legibility is a lark.
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