Katherine Dee

Katherine Dee is a writer. To read more of her work, visit defaultfriend.substack.com.

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Katherine Dee is a writer. To read more of her work, visit defaultfriend.substack.com.

Mimics are taking over TikTok

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Asia’s ‘influencer farms’ are dystopian, but America isn’t much better

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Is AI fuelling eating disorder content?

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Lizzo’s lawsuit exposes the problem with permissive culture

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Did the DeSantis campaign know it was using a Nazi symbol?

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

‘Lord’ Miles Routledge has achieved internet immortality

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Why are politicians debating if Margot Robbie is ‘mid’?

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

The ‘black manosphere’ got there long before Andrew Tate

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Being fit is far-Right now, apparently

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Is Pearl Davis the female Andrew Tate?

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

How a Breitbart hit piece backfired

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Why is anime having an online renaissance?

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Does the ‘Whatever’ podcast make women look stupid?

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

The latest media obsession: Latino white supremacists

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Why the Online Right deifies Daniel Penny

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Don’t blame Tim Pool for the Texas mall shooting

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

What’s behind Ted Lasso’s woke turn?

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

We need to talk about extreme antinatalism

BY Katherine Dee / 5 mins

Was Audrey Hale a domestic terrorist?

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Zach Willmore: TikTok’s new HIV ‘influencer’

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Why are there so few female mass shooters?

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

A dark online Sandy Hook subculture is growing

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Censorship will not prevent Buffalo-style shootings

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Joe Biden’s ‘Disinformation Board’ is just another censorship tool

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Astroturfing has come to social media

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

How the Ukraine war took over TikTok

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Why is Ukrainian State Twitter waging a meme war?

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Teen girls are struggling with male attention on TikTok

BY Katherine Dee / 3 mins

Why do women on OnlyFans pretend to be girls?

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Why do I spend so much time on TikTok?

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Vox discovers Western esotericism — 100 years late

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

The new ingredient in the dating algorithm: human beings

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Crypto books can bypass woke publishers

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Travis Scott’s therapy app won’t heal your trauma

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Wokeness is giving cover to bullies

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Food hack or fetish? TikTok’s new way to shock

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Deepfakes have disturbing implications for porn

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Meet Replika, your new A.I. best friend

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

A mysterious spike in Tourette’s leads back to YouTube star

BY Katherine Dee / 2 mins

Sex positivity can’t last

BY Katherine Dee / 5 mins