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