Introducing Insider's internet drama clinic: Our extremely online experts solve your digital culture dilemmas
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- Confused about a meme? Trying to learn a new social-media platform? Need group-chat etiquette advice?
- You're not alone — and our extremely online experts are on hand to solve all your digital dilemmas.
- Submit a question to Insider's Internet Drama Clinic here.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: sometimes even your most online friend is baffled by the internet. If you are the most online friend, I know you can relate.
There's only so much time any one person can spend keeping up with multi-layered backstory to the latest meme, following the drama that's unfolding in a corner of the internet you've never heard of, figuring out how to use the new social-media platform everyone's talking about, or investigating why people on dating apps have suddenly started substituting actual emojis with ":)" and what obscure subtext you might be missing.
You don't have the time to turn into a TikTok expert in the one week you have before you start your new job, which you're almost certain you were only offered because you told them you were a TikTok expert despite having only tried to post a TikTok once and giving up in frustration after four hours of browsing trending audios drained your phone battery.
And some things are simply too awkward to ask: how do you quietly exit a group chat if you've decided you hate someone in it? Is there a way to tell people they're not allowed to post photos of your party on social media because you want to carefully curate the image without being accused of being a narcissistic gaslighting creep? And, by the way, why is the internet suddenly accusing everyone of being a narcissistic gaslighting creep now?
It's almost as if what you need is a one-stop-shop that will find the exact expert you need for each of your online dilemmas and provide you with a solution to each and every internet conundrum you may find yourself in.
Enter: Insider's internet drama clinic.
Our team of digital culture journalists will pull from our collective knowledge, as well as our Rolodex (read: Twitter lists) of internet culture experts who can advise on everything from voice-note etiquette to how to navigate the Gen Z vs. millennial culture wars.
No online worry is too big or too small for us. We'll help you find the solution.
Send all beguiling questions and desperate queries using this form.
Talk soon,
Your Extremely Online friends.