Break the Internet Quotes

“Hasty headlines had been quick to proclaim the coup a 'failed attempt,' but I was not so sure. It was never really about votes, it was about views. The true site of power was not within the Senate walls: it was online, in the audience, in the engagement, in the algorithms. The coup was pure performativity, an event without a centre, familiar enough to any influencer accustomed to staging life via an iPhone.”
― Olivia Yallop, Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence

“Junklord videos are pure consumerist pornography: a fantasy of endless 'stuff' in a world that's rapidly running out of resources.”
― Olivia Yallop, Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence