The point we’re at in history is, objectively, one where humans are the most connected we’ve ever been. With the advent of the internet and social media, communication happens at speeds that were once...
Teenagers are constantly seen as if they’re addicted to social media. However, recently, the “dopamine detox”, where the brain’s reward system is reset by taking a break from overconsumption on...
As platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch become more prevalent, DVHS students are taking up content creation. For many, creating videos, art or music is more than a hobby — it’s a way...
What will you be today? Messy, self-centered, and overly confident or humble, calm, and collected? Will you be one today and the other tomorrow?
I don’t think I'm a brat or very demure. I do think...
The other day, I stumbled across a TikTok where a young woman was talking about a new book she’d read, and at first, this seemed like it would be right up my alley. The book was one I’d been meaning...
A few days ago, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and I noticed a post that read “NYT says coverage of Gaza hospital blast gave ‘incorrect impression’ of facts.” After reading the post,...
Shelby Yeh, Arts and Entertainment Copy Editor
• December 10, 2023
Simon says close your eyes. Simon says push this button, that button. Simon says consume, copy. Simon doesn’t have to tell us twice.
Yesterday, I learned that more than 13,000 people have been killed...
One hour a day. Seven hours a week. Twenty-eight hours a month. Three hundred thirty-six hours a year. That is 14 days straight taken out of a year of your life that you spent scrolling through stuff that...
Snapchat launched its transformative AI chatbot on Feb. 27, 2023, immediately raising concerns over privacy and security from its largely teenage audience.
The platform utilizes OpenAI’s GPT technology...
Social Media is a waste of time. It entices users by offering to connect them with friends, being a fun place to check out funny videos and downplaying the millions of dollars they spend to make the website...
Amid concerns about hate speech and censorship following Elon Musk’s October 2022 acquisition of Twitter, many users have migrated to decentralized forms of social media such as Mastodon.
Though Musk’s...
Trigger Warning: Contains mentions of sexual assault
If you are on social media you definitely must have come across a misogynistic public star named Andrew Tate. Over the course of the last few months,...
