Let Twitter Devolve Into Porn
Porn’s not my cup of tea, but you have to admire its ferocity and cunning. It’s a mega-genre, something the poet-philosopher Timothy Morton might call a hyperobject, ungraspable in its ubiquity and scale. In effect, porn online behaves like a predator plant, saturating the pixels with flesh colors, choking off biodiverse memes, and sowing vast digital acreage with salt. Tumblr, which started as an artsy microblogging service in 2007, lost its allure when it was overrun by porn five years later....
