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September 11, 2024

YouTuber Nikocado Avocado’s extreme weight‑loss hoax isn’t admirable – it’s fatness being exploited for engagement

For years, the YouTuber has posted increasingly unhinged content, building a platform around various controversies and mukbang videos.

Workers congregate in a meeting room at the headquarters of BlueCity, the parent company of Blued, China’s most popular dating app for gay men. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

September 10, 2021

How ‘sissy men’ became the latest front in China’s campaign against big tech

Shuaishuai Wang, University of Amsterdam

Pronouncements made by the Chinese government often cloak a hidden agenda.

Marcella Zoia, seen here leaving a Toronto court house, has pleaded guilty to a charge of mischief endangering life after throwing a chair from a balcony of a high-rise condo. .THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

February 9, 2020

What Freud tells us about Chair Girl – and ourselves

Heidi Matthews, York University, Canada

The woman known as Chair Girl is reviled not because of her impulsive, foolish crime, but because of how her mistake unexpectedly propelled her to instant internet stardom.

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Heidi Matthews
Assistant Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
Shuaishuai Wang
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture, University of Manchester
Emma Beckett
Senior Lecturer, Nutrition and Food Science, Australian Catholic University

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