your loneliness is a trillion-dollar industry, and every platform knows exactly how to exploit it.

broke down the economics of artificial intimacy - from twitch's $1.8B revenue to onlyfans' $5.35B in payouts

read here:

had to talk about how white queer privilege is causing harm within our community.

https://theconvergencelens.substack.com/p/white-queer-privilege-and-identity-politics

#LGBTQ #QueerCommunity #Intersectionality

what i do and where to find it:

📝 the convergence lens
commentary on culture, politics, and the places they converge.
theconvergencelens.substack.com

tiktok:
www.tiktok.com/@itsmaddierxse

everywhere else:
lnk.bio/itsmaddierxse

new article up:
"the power of making kindness cool again"

"somewhere between 2016 and now, we decided that being kind meant being weak."

https://open.substack.com/pub/theconvergencelens/p/the-power-of-making-kindness-cool?r=32b71l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

why representation without structural change isn't enough: a thread about how media execs cast actors of color and then leave them to drown 🧵

the "tradwife" to purity culture pipeline is so real and we need to talk about it.

wrote about how 90s moral panic got a glow-up and infiltrated our fandoms, wellness spaces, and basically everywhere else 😅

https://theconvergencelens.substack.com/p/the-return-of-moral-panic-why-purity

wrote something i've been thinking about a lot lately: when did we stop consuming media and start living inside it?

little yap about projection, artificial intimacy, and the economics of loneliness.

read the full article here: https://itsmadelinerxse.substack.com/p/are-we-consuming-media-or-living

ik i say it a lot, but fan activism IS real. here's how fandom has mobilized for good across the decades 🧵

from saving shows to changing elections, fans have been carrying advocacy on their backs for literal decades.

bored so here's supernatural lore that genuinely makes no sense: a thread 🧵

because after 15 seasons, the writers were just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what stuck to the ceiling (looking at you, leviathans)

hi people of bluesky :) i need to be more active on here

people of bluesky pls look at the meals i have cooked lately 😍

feels deeply humbling to cross post on here like haha here are my stupid little tweets but on the nice app

hello again

i did forget i downloaded this app

hello, it is i (she who will forget she downloaded this app)