How to Decode Web Culture

Between ever-changing TikTok trends, Twitter battles filled with self-referential hashtags, prank accounts, and irreverent memes, it can sometimes be hard to make sense of what we’ll conveniently call “web culture.” How can we understand this language that blurs the line between reality and fiction, satire and kindness, mockery and advocacy? Here are some key points and references.

What visibility do content creators have “within” ChatGPT?

Increasingly, internet users are going directly to ChatGPT to find answers to their questions rather than surfing the internet and consulting thematic websites or blogs. In a way, the OpenAI platform is then undercutting content creators by not referring to them, very little, or very poorly in its responses. Should this be a cause for concern?