“ A persistent fear of being turned into a meme or cancelled has, she says, made her shrink away from social media while admitting she needs it to “curate” her online self.”
In one line the paradox of the contemporary writer/artist encapsulated.
On one hand the catastrophe of no attention. On the other the catastrophe of too much attention. Famed or defamed and very little in between.
As she says “I just think we’re all gonna learn lessons, because the way we use social media now is not sustainable.”
Writers and artists are going to have to entirely rethink reputation based identity.
