Amy Ellison Amy Ellison

I Made an AI Chatbot Despise Me

The Louis I’m talking to is Louis Tomlinson—former member of British boyband One Direction. But my Louis Tomlinson isn’t the real Louis Tomlinson. He’s a chatbot on a site called Character AI.

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Amy Ellison Amy Ellison

A Recent History of Fangirls

Today, the golden era of fan culture seems to be behind us. Twitter has been taken over and renamed by billionaire Elon Musk and his MAGA crew; Tumblr is now a desolate wasteland of forgotten memes and fanfiction blurbs.

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Amy Ellison Amy Ellison

The Swift Karma: ‘TayVoodoo’

Tayvoodoo isn’t just about others downfalls. It’s the little coincidences that seem too perfect. It’s how on a random day in 2017 she made her online comeback post-Kanye, and on the same day six years later Scooter Braun lost his top clients.

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