Welcome to 24 Hours Online, where we ask one extremely internet-y person to document a day in their life looking at screens.
Twitter trolling with Chapo Trap House’s Felix Biederman
Felix, with some of the stuff he likes to do online. Felix BiedermanWelcome to 24 Hours Online, where we ask one extremely internetty person to document a day in their life looking at screens.
Felix Biederman, whom the New York Times once called one of “the pied pipers of the dirtbag left,” is among Twitter’s most prolific posters. He also thinks that maybe people shouldn’t be allowed to have smartphones.
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Rosie NguyenWelcome to 24 Hours Online, where we ask one extremely internetty person to document a day in their life looking at screens.
For Rosie Nguyen, flirting with her Twitter mutuals is all part of the job. Nguyen, better known by her online persona @JasmineRiceGirl, is the co-founder and CMO of Fanhouse, an OnlyFans-meets-Patreon platform for creators to monetize their followings. She’s also an influencer, which can involve anything from singing to her Twitch subscribers to posting about her bowel movements.
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Caleb HearonWelcome to 24 Hours Online, where we ask one extremely internetty person to document a day in their life looking at screens.
Caleb Hearon’s first time going mega-viral on Twitter was near the end of 2019, when he made a now-legendary POV video in which he pretended to agree with a friend who was venting to him about a situation in which they were clearly in the wrong. He’s been goofing around on the platform since 2010, back in the era of “Ashton Kutcher going on the Ellen show and talking about his ‘tweeps,’” as he describes it.
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Emma Eun-joo Choi, alongside some of the things she likes to do online. Courtesy of Emma ChoiWelcome to 24 Hours Online, where we ask one extremely internetty person to document a day in their life looking at screens.
Last year, Emma Eun-joo Choi was an intern at the longtime NPR radio show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! Today she’s the host of its newest spinoff, Everyone & Their Mom, a shortform comedy podcast where Wait Wait panelists and comedians discuss the inescapable topic du jour. But unlike, say, Peter Sagal, she records episodes from her dorm room at Harvard, where she’s finishing up her junior year.
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Ena Da, with some of the things she looks at online. Ena DaWelcome to 24 Hours Online, where we ask one extremely internetty person to document a day in their life looking at screens.
People tend to talk about their screen time the way they talk about fast food: Too much is “bad,” a marker of gluttony or laziness or some other moral failing. Ena Da, an actor, comedian, and manager of what I would argue is Instagram’s best meme account, has a more nuanced approach. Despite her self-proclaimed “ungodly” 10-to-12 hours per day online, she argues that the lack of available third places in American society creates a void of shared community and culture that can only be filled by the internet.
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Rayne Fisher-Quann, alongside some stuff she consumed on a screen. Rayne Fisher-QuannWelcome to 24 Hours Online, where we ask one extremely internetty person to document a day in their life looking at screens.
If you’re on a certain corner of Gen Z-leftist-feminist-media-criticism TikTok, you already know Rayne Fisher-Quann, a 20-year-old writer who’s been big on the internet ever since she joined it: As a teenager in Toronto, she grew a sizable Instagram following because her best friend got famous on a Nickelodeon show, and since then she’s built equally formidable audiences on Tumblr, Twitter, and most recently TikTok, where she discusses feminism, leftism, mental illness, and, well, herself.
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