About Tox Report
The internet made everyone go mad. I don’t mean that it gave us anxiety or drove social contagion (though it probably didn’t hurt those things). I mean that the move to mass online existence from the late 1990s to the 2010s caused a collective breakdown in social, cultural and political life — and even in the way we feel about ourselves as physical beings.
This newsletter is about learning to live in the wreckage.
Free subscribers get a new post every Tuesday. If you’re new here, these are some of my favourite posts from the archive:
Tox Report 62. On not going mad on the internet
Tox Report 60. The rules do not apply
There’s no paid tier of Tox Report, but if you’d like to pledge your support for a future version, I would find that very validating. And it will mean you’ll be the first to know about new and exciting plans.
You can also listen to me cohost an episode of BarPod (about people going mad on the internet, ofc):
About me
I’m Sarah Ditum, a British journalist who writes for the Times, the Sunday Times, UnHerd and the Critic. I’m also the author of the book Toxic: Women, Fame and the Noughties, now optioned by Paris Hilton’s 11:11 production company for development as a docuseries. (She listened to the audiobook! Which I read!)
Some people have called me problematic, but I’m really just an averagely damaged geriatric millennial.
