The artist who makes ‘little gay collages’ about the internet shares what makes them laugh online, including Jordan Firstman, Patti Harrison and a Cars conspiracy theory
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My dear friend and collaborator Harriet Gillies often refers to me as The Invisible Hand of the Internet – a title I proudly bare. This is, however, a bit of a misnomer. While I am a person who actively observes and reviews the internet, I’m weirdly a bit of a bystander. I have a kind of a look-don’t-touch approach, like a no-intervention documentarian watching little internet creatures troll each other in their native habitat so I can scurry home and make my little gay collages about them. From my observational high horse, I do, of course, see a lot.
Attempting to condense this list down to 10 points seems a near-impossible task. As such, I’ve structured this esteemed collection in layers of descent. Welcome to Xanthe Dobbie’s doom scroll in three acts: gay sun, tech moon, unhinged rising.
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