I’ve added a new article to the site, and it’s one of my favorite kinds of pieces. It’s part rhetorical analysis, part digital autopsy, and part “why does the internet solidify our forsaken digital footprints like this?”
The new essay, “Why the Internet Remembers in Fragments,” uses a bizarrely specific set of keywords and search phrases, including Lily, Memorial, Confidence, an orchard of cotton candy, and but my cat would miss me, to think through how online language circulates, sticks like used gum, mutates into evil used-gum man, and haunts like evil used-gum man’s evil used-gum.
In other words, it’s about search behavior, fragmented memory, and the rhetorical afterlife that lingers like a cough of phrases people leave behind on the web.
So, if you enjoy writing, digital culture, archive weirdness, or watching me turn suspicious keyword data into a full existential episode, this one’s for you, pals.
Read it here: Why the Internet Remembers in Fragments – Static Pages, Moving Meaning
The algorithm may be unserious, and unfortunately for you~, I am taking notes.
xoxo,
Cheyenne
Static Pages, Moving Meaning 
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