There are many things about my youth that have been ground into fine dust by a relentless online culture determined to use every emotion I’ve ever felt as a wedge into CPM advertising or a dubstep meme remix.
NIN’s ‘Head Like a Hole’ mashed with ‘Call Me Maybe’ is terrible and perfect
You’re going to get what you deserve
You’re going to get what you deserve


is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast.
This is not one of them.
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