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Millenial Metalepsis, or: You're On TV!

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Eleanor Stern
Mar 03, 2026
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Act natural: you are being watched. You already know this. You already spend all your conscious time pretending not to know you’re being watched. Which isn’t easy, but what’s the other option? Are you supposed to go through life all stiff and frozen, peering warily at the cameras and snuffling backward from the lens in fear? They’ll just zoom in anyway.…

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