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Book Review: ‘Algospeak’ Shows Just How Much Social Media Is Changing Us

ONLINE PLATFORMS (4CHAN, REDDIT, TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER), JUL 13 – Incel ideology, originating on forums like 4chan, influenced youth culture and slang, with some subreddits gaining tens of thousands of followers before shutdowns, experts say.

How much has social media changed the way we talk and behave? That’s the question linguist and content creator Adam Aleksic sets out to answer in his debut book “Algospeak.” If you already know what words like “yeet,” “rizz,” “brainrot” or “blackpilled” mean, some of this information might not come as a surprise to you. Still, Aleksic’s analysis reaffirms how this language came about and why it continues to proliferate. For those unfamiliar, it …

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The masculinist discourses are increasingly present in France, notably with a rising trend, that of "involuntary singles". Decryption with Franco-Canadian researcher and politician Francis Dupuis-Déri.

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