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 By and paige nick

"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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