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The New York Times, Maybe It’s Time to Make Peace With Your Smartphone: the authors of two savvy new books offer hope that there’s more to being terminally online than sore thumbs and brain rot.

The Washington Post, What does social media leave out of its pictures? An influencer tells us.

Interview Magazine, Aiden Arata Tells Phoebe Bridgers How She Turned Her Internet Brain Rot Into a Book

The Creative Independent, Writer and artist Aiden Arata on dealing with dread

Lullaby Machine, Jung Would Cry If He Saw My TikTok Feed: A Conversation with Aiden Arata

Electric Literature, Electric Lit’s best nonfiction of 2025

The Daily Dot, ‘You are under the mist machines in the produce aisle’: These spoofs of guided meditations are the perfect antidote to scrolling fatigue

Seventeen, Why Meme Fashion is the Next Big Thing, According to Instagram Creators

The Washington Post, Doomscrolling got you down? Take a break at a digital rest stop.

NBC, Cute memes linked to less Covid-related stress, new study says

In The Know, TikTok is Hypnotized By These Hyper-Specific Meditations

Mashable, An interview with Aiden Arata, the meme queen of depression Instagram

Blah, Blah, Blah w/ Scott Jackson Arick, Aiden Arata On the Influencer Apocalypse and the Unintended Consequences of the Internet

Mashable, Trauma memes are taking over the internet. Why that can be a good thing.

Concordia University, On Memes: A Conversation Between Aiden Arata & Yung Nihilist

The Cut, How Did Memes Turn Into ‘Interactive Trauma Diaries’?

Harper’s Bazaar, The 11 Funniest Instagram Meme Accounts to Follow

VICE, How the 'I'm Baby' Meme Became a Cultural Obsession

The Cut, I’m Baby

Catapult, You’re in Good Virtual Hands: On ASMR, Anxiety, Relaxation in the Side-Hustle Economy, and Being Baby

Medium, A Meme Art Show? Translating a Digital Form to I.R.L.