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Marx used the words commodity fetishism to describe how a product that is sold to a consumer is disconnected from the human relations that produced it - whose labor was exploited to produce it? whose wages stolen to generate profit? whose water contaminated in the mining of the materials? We experience only the product and give very little thought to the relations behind it.

Commodity fetishism kind of goes into hyper drive when applied to digital content, because people are rarely aware of the fact that everything that digitally exists, also materially exists as stored data. So we see a video and we think our only relation is between the viewer and the creator. But that's commodity fetishism.

That video is stored somewhere. Where is the hard-drive on which it was stored? What - be it nature or some other building - was destroyed to make room for the data-center that the hard drive is in? Whose labor is exploited to run it? Who live nearby and experience the environmental impact of it? Has much power is used and CO2 emitted to store it and stream it?

Are these things - the material reality of the video - as much a part of it as the words and ideas within it?

(please don't make this post about AI. That's important too but I ant to focus here on how EVERYTHING on the internet exists materially and has a material impact somewhere.)

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„what if children see nudity“ can only be said by people who didn’t grow up with seeing full frontal nudity in the BRAVO bodycheck or the BILD girls

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can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

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Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met Museum? (1989) by The Guerilla Girls. Screenprint on paper.

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Golf is a lot of things. Boring, a waste of water resources, an absolute bullshit privatization of land, but also it's just the least sexy sport on earth. No blood or sweat or grime involved. Just one bitch standing in the dumbest way possible to swing a stick. Absolute loser behavior.

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Another example of ridiculous gendered parenting, the harm it does and how early it starts.

Tiktok OP's pronouns are he/him.

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can not believe i am a fully grown adult and many people my age have kids and degrees and serious careers. i can barely make dinner

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it’s funny that people on twitter hate tumblr so virulently bc i get it if you are logging on for the first time in 2025 tumblr probably does suck. however i wouldn’t know because i have been carefully curating my dash experience and mutual circle since 2011 and my circle of tumblrinas taken by itself is the greatest social networking site of all time

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you can go back to the past but nobody’s there

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i’m starting to think these people don’t actually like music

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anyone who knows more than me about pop culture is an uncritical guzzler of tabloidslop, anyone who knows less than me is an ignoramus uninterested in the world around them

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I WILL BEAR MYSELF TO PEOPLE AUTHENTICALLY EVEN IF IT COULD LEAD TO EMBARRASSMENT AND POSSIBLE REJECTION FOR DEEPER MORE MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS

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A labubu is a powerful charm if the one it is bound to is full of love and not materialism

idk. maybe im too much of a hermit to understand such things. but ultimately it’s a mass produced piece of fabric and cloth put in a “mystery box” to trigger the part of your brain that loves gambling; a carefully-cultivated, intentionally-created market of trendy consumerism and inflated values propped up by a sea of collectors and venture capitalists, all designed to ensure that it’s just quirky enough to be endearing whilst serving as an inherently “prized item” for young adults and teenagers divorced from any inherent value or function. you are not playing with your labubu. you don’t love it just because it looks cute—or, if you think you do, you have been deceived by marketing. it is a commodity of wanting. it is a brand of having. it is devoid of purpose or soul, other than what you give to it—and your choice to give it your soul doesn’t exist in a vacuum

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Cat Series a series of cats placed on flatbed scanners

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tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse