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A24 Found the Backrooms. The Internet Built Them.

The lesson is what happens when a world is built by the internet before anyone owns the movie.
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The Tonys were lovely. Now can we talk about why taxpayers are being asked to subsidise a business model that rarely benefits the public?
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From Nipplegate to Google’s briefing layer, the internet has learned to clip, query and summarise culture before we ever arrive at the thing itself.
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