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You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral.

Published by WIRED

Where: New York, Oregon

Exact coordinates

new york: 40.710, -74.010
oregon: 43.800, -120.550

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