Later generations shifted their creative work to platforms like Tumblr and early Instagram. There was a whole later generation of artists that didn't have to go under the hood.
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It felt as though in the 2000s, social media became a new substrate for masks and identities to play themselves out. MySpace, Facebook and Tumblr marked the first push into our forever doomscroll.
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