Opinion
Out-of-context selfies turn online protest into beauty pageant
We've lost sight of the important meaning behind those #ChallengeAccepted photos trending on social media
09 August 2020 - 00:00
"Post your top 10 this-thats or your favourite what-nots, or eleventy album covers, no explanation, no captions." Surely this blurb, which gets copied and pasted onto all of these posts, is both an explanation and a caption?..
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