Social media was inflicted on the young by adults who now disown it

Evidence

“As a middle-aged man, I think of such technology as belonging to the kids, but it doesn’t. Smartphones, YouTube, TikTok and the like were brought to market by adults and then inflicted on a generation that has had little choice in the matter.” The boy who threw the punch, then, is exercising a form of minor, violent resistance, resistance to a culture formed to ensure communication and sociality are always commodified. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 110

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the punch-video as the mirror image of subsumption: a minor violent refusal of a fully commodified sociality — useful contrast case for the influencer study.