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Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

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Angela Shanice Littlefield is a freelance writer for the Daily Dot with a focus on pop culture and tech news. She&#8217;s a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). She has written and worked for entertainment figures such as Sirius XM Radio Personality Sway Calloway, and published work for Grammy U, the NAACP&#8217;s Crisis magazine, and Austin Monthly magazine.

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‘What stage of capitalism is this’: People hate this high-tech pricetag for collectible sneakers

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‘These manipulation tactics worked’: TikToker shows how nonprofits flooded their grandpa with mail

Moises Mendez II is a recent graduate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is a freelance journalist based in New York City writing about everything from music to LGBTQ issues.

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Anti-rainbow capitalism memes fight back against the corporatization of Pride

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