Welcome to The Internette with Soaliha, Ette Media’s new online culture column. On the first Tuesday of every month, Soaliha cuts through comment section slop to get you across online discourse that actually matters. From lesbian bar drama to a podcast's Facebook group admins kicking out members, let’s dive into what people were getting riled up about online in September — and why these issues are deeper than they seem.
There’s a bit of a theme to the viral internet moments this month: all of them centre on media outlets and how they interact with the online world. The lines between news and internet, journalist and public, have been blurring for some time as we all become more accessible to each other thanks to social media. The result of that can be very messy. Just look at the examples below…
