A Hot Take on Hot Take Culture

Tris Mamone
Aug 31, 2018 · 4 min read

Social media is both a blessing and a curse for the exact same reason: it gives everyone the chance to tell the world what they think. Aspiring professional contrarians no longer have to ask big-named publications to give them a platform to tell everyone why millennials killed mayonnaise or why the late John McCain was right to sing “Bomb Iran.” One can simply open up a Twitter account for free, start referring to right-winged pundits…

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Tris Mamone

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Bi non-binary (they/them) freelance writer. Bylines: @Rewire_News, @SpliceToday, @Into, @HuffPost, @thedailybeast, @thestartup_, etc.

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