The Joke’s on Us
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and ‘ironic’ racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously?
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17 min readOct 1, 2020
By Helen Lewis
Remember when the internet used to be fun? Whitney Phillips does. The digital anthropologist was recently looking through a huge set of images from the late 2000s that had been posted to Reddit. The first comment…