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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Every week, I would have piano lessons, and if I did well, my teacher would give me a sticker. If I got a sticker, then my mom would take me to Tapioca Express, ” says Alyssa Wang, who goes by the online name \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/feedmeimei/videos\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feed Meimei\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “So I’ve always loved boba since I was a kid.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Asian Americans of a certain generation, this kind of childhood nostalgia is commonplace. But Wang, 27, is one of the only ones who has transformed her boba love into a career. She is the internet’s likely first full-time boba content creator. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, Feed Meimei boasts more than 605,000 subscribers on Youtube, 737,000 followers on her Tiktok and 242,000 followers on Instagram. Over the past five years, Wang has made more than 70 Youtube videos documenting her countless visits to Bay Area boba shops. Wang’s favorite boba shop in the Bay Area, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urbanritualcafe.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Ritual\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, even named a drink after her. The drink is currently one of the store’s top three sellers, according to founder David Zhou. Whenever Wang posts about Urban Ritual, the store usually sees a 10 percent uptick in sales.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that sense, Wang has become one of the most powerful people in the Bay Area boba scene—a kingmaker of sorts whose videos, many which are filmed inside her car, often wind up having a real impact on a small shop’s business fortunes. It’s a future that Wang never could have imagined when she was a college student posting food recommendations just for fun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From Software Engineer to Social Media Creator\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang’s food blogging journey began in 2013 when she was a freshman at UC Davis studying computer science and psychology. As a hobby, she made @davis_eats, an Instagram account documenting her adventures exploring the college town’s food scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After graduating, Wang moved back to the Bay Area to live with her parents and began working as a software engineer. While she enjoyed coding, she found that she didn’t like it enough to do it eight hours a day. What she did love was building her food Instagram, which she renamed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/feedmeimei/?hl=en\">Feed Meimei\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I found myself at work just being like, ‘I really wish I could just keep doing that. I want to go out and be shooting content at restaurants,’” Wang says. “It took months for me to come to terms with the fact that I was going to take this untraditional route. Growing up, I always thought I would be a doctor, lawyer or engineer, the classic jobs that Asian parents want you to do.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits in cafe booth with a huge stack of oversized cups of boba in front of her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wang is likely the internet’s first full-time boba influencer. \u003ccite>(Alyssa Wang / @feedmeimei)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang decided at the end of 2018 to quit her job in tech to pursue content creation full time, a decision she says was partially inspired by the path of fellow UC Davis grad TJ Lee, known online as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/cupoftj\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cup of TJ\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Wang had saved up money from her job and didn’t have other major financial responsibilities at the time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She hit the ground running in January 2019, churning out two Youtube videos per week and doing everything from storyboarding, preparing drinks and food, shooting and editing. On Instagram, she started making original content six times per week. In June 2019, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@feedmeimei?lang=en\">joined TikTok\u003c/a> and started posting there as well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was just like, go, go, go, just put my head down and work,” Wang says. “I was very much in the mindset of like, ‘I’m just going to work, I’m going to upload, and as long as I keep going, then eventually I will be able to succeed.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Combatting Creator Burnout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was unsustainable. At the end of 2019, she began to question why she was “working so hard towards something that was never going to happen.” So she took a break from content creation, a field where likes and views have made it notoriously easy to compare your own journey to those of others. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, the pandemic hit. While tinkering with unpublished footage, at first out of sheer boredom, Wang rediscovered her love for making videos about food. She slowly began posting on Youtube again, just once a week. In 2021, she began experimenting with making boba from scratch and forming it into different characters. Those turned out to be her first “viral” moments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CbeDBwFF_Rw/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a video with 1.2 million views on TikTok and 5.7 million views on Youtube Shorts, Wang melts down a strawberry Melona bar to make red panda-shaped tapioca pearls inspired by Pixar’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turning Red\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In another TikTok video with 5.9 million views, she makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lZ-G3ASbLAc\">cotton-candy pink, Kirby-shaped pearls\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The success has obviously helped, but being a full-time creator for more than three years has also taught Wang the importance of practicing self-care. She has learned to liberally use Youtube’s “don’t recommend channel” feature to prevent its algorithm from displaying other creators’ videos on her feed. It’s nothing personal—she’s ecstatic for their success—“but I also don’t want myself to feel like I’m not doing enough or I’m not happy where I am,” Wang says, “because I am happy.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other thing that has helped, Wang says, is that family support, particularly from her mom, has remained constant. And that has made all the difference.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang’s mom even \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">makes\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> frequent, highly-requested appearances in videos. (She has been featured in more than 60 of them so far.) The mother and daughter’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyB1W1tgHUw\">matching levels of enthusiasm for food\u003c/a> make for lighthearted entertainment that some viewers have said reminds them of their interactions with their own family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bGRQJzAKZw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Coming from an Asian upbringing, usually families aren’t super expressive with their emotions,” Wang says. “But, food, it was always something that could bring us together.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Queen of Many Domains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While some of Wang’s subscribers may have originally come across her channel due to her viral boba videos, her positivity keeps them coming back for more—no matter the video’s subject. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her well-received forays into making non-boba content are proof. She’s made food guides for the Bay Area, Taiwan, Japan, Toronto, Los Angeles, Hawaii and more. Her recent videos include a taste test and ranking of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyB1W1tgHUw\">every appetizer, dumpling and noodle dish at chain restaurant Din Tai Fung\u003c/a> alongside her mom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang speaks to the camera directly, casually, as a friend. Seldom does she offer overt criticism. It’s what sets her, and other food influencers, apart from the professional food critics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman smiles holding a colorful, seven-scoop ice cream cone in each hand.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-scaled.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1920x2400.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feed Meimei has branched out beyond boba to post videos about other food-related topics like soup dumplings and ice cream. \u003ccite>(Alyssa Wang / @feedmeimei)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sbe’s become somewhat of a local star, especially in the Bay Area’s boba scene. Baristas often tell her that customers use her videos as a guide for what to order, she says. She’s not fully used to the attention yet, and still finds it unreal that her subscribers will “sit there and watch me talk about food for, like, 20 minutes.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13904913,arts_13897410,arts_13908947']It’s been a successful endeavor so far, if the Feed Meimei team’s rapid expansion is any indication. In the past month, Wang has taken on a hiring manager, an assistant and a lawyer—a move that she says has been “long overdue.” Soon, she’ll hire another editor and start a new Youtube channel for casual vlogging. She did not delve into specifics of her financial situation, but, like other influencers, she generates income through a combination of brand partnerships, ad revenue, merchandise and collaborations—her Urban Ritual drink included. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After graduating, Wang moved back to the Bay Area to live with her parents and began working as a software engineer. While she enjoyed coding, she found that she didn’t like it enough to do it eight hours a day. What she did love was building her food Instagram, which she renamed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/feedmeimei/?hl=en\">Feed Meimei\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I found myself at work just being like, ‘I really wish I could just keep doing that. I want to go out and be shooting content at restaurants,’” Wang says. “It took months for me to come to terms with the fact that I was going to take this untraditional route. Growing up, I always thought I would be a doctor, lawyer or engineer, the classic jobs that Asian parents want you to do.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits in cafe booth with a huge stack of oversized cups of boba in front of her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_boba-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wang is likely the internet’s first full-time boba influencer. \u003ccite>(Alyssa Wang / @feedmeimei)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang decided at the end of 2018 to quit her job in tech to pursue content creation full time, a decision she says was partially inspired by the path of fellow UC Davis grad TJ Lee, known online as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/cupoftj\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cup of TJ\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Wang had saved up money from her job and didn’t have other major financial responsibilities at the time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She hit the ground running in January 2019, churning out two Youtube videos per week and doing everything from storyboarding, preparing drinks and food, shooting and editing. On Instagram, she started making original content six times per week. In June 2019, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@feedmeimei?lang=en\">joined TikTok\u003c/a> and started posting there as well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was just like, go, go, go, just put my head down and work,” Wang says. “I was very much in the mindset of like, ‘I’m just going to work, I’m going to upload, and as long as I keep going, then eventually I will be able to succeed.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Combatting Creator Burnout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was unsustainable. At the end of 2019, she began to question why she was “working so hard towards something that was never going to happen.” So she took a break from content creation, a field where likes and views have made it notoriously easy to compare your own journey to those of others. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, the pandemic hit. While tinkering with unpublished footage, at first out of sheer boredom, Wang rediscovered her love for making videos about food. She slowly began posting on Youtube again, just once a week. In 2021, she began experimenting with making boba from scratch and forming it into different characters. Those turned out to be her first “viral” moments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a video with 1.2 million views on TikTok and 5.7 million views on Youtube Shorts, Wang melts down a strawberry Melona bar to make red panda-shaped tapioca pearls inspired by Pixar’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turning Red\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In another TikTok video with 5.9 million views, she makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lZ-G3ASbLAc\">cotton-candy pink, Kirby-shaped pearls\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The success has obviously helped, but being a full-time creator for more than three years has also taught Wang the importance of practicing self-care. She has learned to liberally use Youtube’s “don’t recommend channel” feature to prevent its algorithm from displaying other creators’ videos on her feed. It’s nothing personal—she’s ecstatic for their success—“but I also don’t want myself to feel like I’m not doing enough or I’m not happy where I am,” Wang says, “because I am happy.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other thing that has helped, Wang says, is that family support, particularly from her mom, has remained constant. And that has made all the difference.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang’s mom even \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">makes\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> frequent, highly-requested appearances in videos. (She has been featured in more than 60 of them so far.) The mother and daughter’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyB1W1tgHUw\">matching levels of enthusiasm for food\u003c/a> make for lighthearted entertainment that some viewers have said reminds them of their interactions with their own family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7bGRQJzAKZw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7bGRQJzAKZw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Coming from an Asian upbringing, usually families aren’t super expressive with their emotions,” Wang says. “But, food, it was always something that could bring us together.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Queen of Many Domains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While some of Wang’s subscribers may have originally come across her channel due to her viral boba videos, her positivity keeps them coming back for more—no matter the video’s subject. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her well-received forays into making non-boba content are proof. She’s made food guides for the Bay Area, Taiwan, Japan, Toronto, Los Angeles, Hawaii and more. Her recent videos include a taste test and ranking of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyB1W1tgHUw\">every appetizer, dumpling and noodle dish at chain restaurant Din Tai Fung\u003c/a> alongside her mom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang speaks to the camera directly, casually, as a friend. Seldom does she offer overt criticism. It’s what sets her, and other food influencers, apart from the professional food critics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman smiles holding a colorful, seven-scoop ice cream cone in each hand.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-scaled.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/feedmeimei_icecream-1920x2400.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feed Meimei has branched out beyond boba to post videos about other food-related topics like soup dumplings and ice cream. \u003ccite>(Alyssa Wang / @feedmeimei)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sbe’s become somewhat of a local star, especially in the Bay Area’s boba scene. Baristas often tell her that customers use her videos as a guide for what to order, she says. She’s not fully used to the attention yet, and still finds it unreal that her subscribers will “sit there and watch me talk about food for, like, 20 minutes.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s been a successful endeavor so far, if the Feed Meimei team’s rapid expansion is any indication. In the past month, Wang has taken on a hiring manager, an assistant and a lawyer—a move that she says has been “long overdue.” Soon, she’ll hire another editor and start a new Youtube channel for casual vlogging. She did not delve into specifics of her financial situation, but, like other influencers, she generates income through a combination of brand partnerships, ad revenue, merchandise and collaborations—her Urban Ritual drink included. She makes enough, at least, that she doesn’t need to take on any other day job.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wang, a deeply nostalgic person, drew the flavor profile for her “Feed Me Ube” collaboration drink from her childhood. Her voice picks up as she describes the decadent drink, which features ube-flavored crème brûlée pudding, taro chunks, coconut milk and a choice of either rice milk or whole milk: “The rice milk is much lighter and it really lets the flavor of the ube shine through. But you could really taste that coconut-y sweetness with the whole milk.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Youth Takeover week\u003c/a>. From April 25-29, we’re featuring stories by high school students from around the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]Q[/dropcap]uarantine ignited the long-lost baker inside many Americans, who spent the early days of the pandemic tearing through yeast packets, with all their leavening glory. The kitchen became a haven for creativity during these bewildering times. For a while, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877479936/the-great-pandemic-bake-off-may-be-over\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it felt as though everyone in America was baking sourdough or focaccia\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some Asian American bakers, on the other hand, looked toward their identities for inspiration. Instead of sourdough bread, their ovens churned out trays of Hawaiian butter mochi, ube bread pudding and garlic-scallion cream cheese buns. These home bakers used many of the same ingredients as their sourdough-obsessed counterparts—flour, water, yeast and sugar. But they also incorporated traditional flavors from their own culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13912603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/EvanSun.headshot-1-160x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/EvanSun.headshot-1-160x178.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/EvanSun.headshot-1.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the pandemic progressed, a number of Asian American home bakers started sharing these treats on Instagram and other social media platforms—and, in many cases, turned their hobby into an online business. Here in the Bay Area, the past two years have given rise to a growing movement of Asian American home bakeries. For these Instagram-based businesses, the pandemic did more than just provide a chance to explore new recipes. It also allowed Asian American bakers to develop a deeper connection to their own heritage. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homage to Ube\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South San Francisco-based \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kapwabakingco/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kapwa Baking Company\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is one of the many Instagram-based home businesses that popped up during the pandemic. As work turned remote and schools switched to Zoom, Faye Baltazar-Caylao and Ryan Caylao finally had the spare time to jumpstart an idea that had been stuck on the backburner for years. The couple wanted to start a business that encapsulates their Filipino heritage and the idea of “kapwa.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2199px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up photo of a box of chocolate chip cookies, with a row of bright purple ube white chocolate cookies on the left and more conventional-looking chocolate chip cookies on the right.\" width=\"2199\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies.jpg 2199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-2048x1408.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-1920x1320.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2199px) 100vw, 2199px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Kapwa Baking Company, even the chocolate chip cookies are spiked with ube. \u003ccite>(Kapwa Baking Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kapwa is “Filipino for neighbor, community, or a shared sense of self,” the Caylaos explained. “There’s not a concrete definition for kapwa. It’s an essence or feeling for Filipino independence. It’s almost like ‘we are kapwa’ ‘we are united’.” It’s a sense of pride that seeps through generations of Filipinos and through hundreds of years of Spanish colonialism. This Filipino pride is evident on Kapwa Baking Company’s Instagram feed, which spills bright violets—\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912001/ube-festival-filipino-kapwa-gardens-yum-yams-san-francisco-marleys-treats\">an homage to ube, a purple yam native to the Philippines\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flavors like ube are deemed exotic and “out there” in the States, Baltazar-Caylao explains: “It was always Americanized desserts like buttercream, cakes and cupcakes. American flavors like vanilla, chocolate, and cookies and cream”. Baltazar-Caylao, on the other hand, placed ube at the heart of her business. All of Kapwa’s sweets have an ube variety.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Kapwa’s signature sweets is their ube bread pudding, which shows off the rich and decadent nature of ube. Each warm bite is like a hug, as the dessert’s nutty, delicate flavor coats your mouth. Ube is also the star ingredient of the ube pastilla milk jam, a sweet paste reminiscent of condensed milk that goes well with several of the bakery’s desserts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other items give a Filipino twist to all-American desserts like brownies and white chocolate chip cookies. By giving these treats an ube punch, the Caylaos encapsulate the Filipino American experience, in which a crossfire of characteristics—Tagalog and English, ube and chocolate, Filipino and American—all come together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cross-Cultural Relations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the bay in Oakland, Chinese Americans Tina Lee and Irene Pan started \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bigboimochi/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Boi Mochi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a way to highlight another element of Asian American culture: bouncy Hawaiian-style butter mochi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like the Caylaos, Lee and Pan had an epiphany during the middle of the pandemic. Lee, the baker, was “stuck in limbo” after graduating from college. Meanwhile, Pan noticed the new trend of home bakers selling desserts on Instagram, and she remembered Lee’s mouthwatering Hawaiian butter mochi—a recipe she’d inherited from her mom. So, Pan pitched her friend on the idea of turning that mochi into a business. Big Boi Mochi was born after Lee tweaked the original recipe to fit a variety of distinct Asian flavors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon.jpg\" alt=\"Three squares of melon-flavored mochi on a plate, next to a melon popsicle with the same pale green color.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The melon mochi were inspired by a popular brand of Korean ice cream bars. \u003ccite>(Big Boi Mochi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During their pop-ups, Pan and Lee say, many non-Asian customers “come for the flavor, but they stay for that chewy, soft texture of mochi.” Their mochi also emphasizes the depth of diversity and cross-cultural relations between Asian communities in the Bay Area. And mochi offers new experiences to customers who are unfamiliar with flavors like Vietnamese coffee and pandan, a popular Southeast Asian leaf with an earthy, grassy taste. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13912364,arts_13912562,arts_13912001']Despite incorporating a plethora of diverse Asian cultures in its products, Big Boi Mochi is rooted in its founders’ Chinese American identities. The black sesame and salted egg mochi, for instance, are chewy little flavor bombs that capture the memories and nostalgia of growing up Chinese: They’re familiar flavors for anyone who has tasted the salted yolk in a mooncake or the nuttiness of zi ma wu (black sesame paste). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raised in a predominantly white area, Pan and Lee say they were always labeled as “diverse.” After being forced into the margins for so long, they’re now using their pride in being Chinese American to bring their products to life. And after the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876061/report-asian-americas-more-stressed-by-anti-asian-hate-than-covid-19\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">influx of xenophobia and anti-Asian hate\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that we’ve seen in our communities during the pandemic, finding solidarity through food feels especially important. Businesses like Big Boi Mochi allow a wide range of Asian Americans to join together, even if it’s around something as small as a butter mochi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Taste of Hong Kong\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB.jpg\" alt=\"The owner of MamaLin's Baker stands in front of the sidewalk table she's set up to sell her baked treats.\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-800x1101.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-1020x1404.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-768x1057.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-1116x1536.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqualine Li started MamaLin’s Bakery to help give customers “a piece of Hong Kong” through her food. \u003ccite>(MamaLin's Bakery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the newer Asian American home bakeries have formed their own collaborative community during the pandemic, often promoting each other’s pop-ups and tagging each other on Instagram. Pan and Lee, for instance, made a point of mentioning their friendship with San Francisco’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cookdelish_bymamalin/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MamaLin’s Bakery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Hong Kong-style home bakery that sells a swath of savory and sweet Asian treats that are hard to find elsewhere in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pandemic hit, founder Jacqualine Li became a stay-at-home mom after not being able to find work. With her extra free time, she began experimenting with different recipes that she’d learned in her native Hong Kong. “Whenever I go back to Hong Kong, I would always try to take a cooking class to learn different techniques and cuisine that isn’t common in America,” Li explains.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It wasn’t until she accumulated a surplus from all the baking she was doing for her family that Li started giving away samples to friends and extended family. Posting her creations on Instagram allowed her to reach an even bigger audience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After immigrating from Hong Kong in her 20s, Li says her ability to recreate culturally nostalgic foods like pork floss buns and mooncakes has always helped her feel connected to her heritage. She hopes customers, especially other immigrants, will “find a piece of Hong Kong in [her] food.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li makes the kind of buns and other fresh baked goods that you might stumble upon in a bakery in Hong Kong, but the treats are also unique in their presentation or in the way they incorporate ingredients such as cream cheese or durian. For instance, MamaLin’s signature scallion garlic cream cheese buns reminded me of the scallion buns prevalent in Cantonese and Hong Kong-style bakeries—but Li combines the salty scallion flavor of the topping with a velvety, honey-flavored cream cheese filling. To say that the combination was addictive would be an understatement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B.jpg\" alt=\"Scallion garlic cream cheese bun on a wooden cutting board, with the bun's oozy cream cheese interior visible.\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1656\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scallion garlic cream cheese bun takes a standard Hong Kong-style scallion bun and adds sweet, velvety cream cheese to the mix. \u003ccite>(MamaLin's Bakery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Kapwa Baking Company’s Filipino American twists, Li’s creations sit at an intersection between cultures. The durian daifuku mochi features the potent flavor of the durian, a fruit native to Southeast Asia—an unexpected addition to Japanese mochi since the stereotypically smelly fruit isn’t especially popular in Japan. But that’s what makes MamaLin’s so innovative, as it brings different corners of Asia together in one harmonious treat.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\"]“Asian American home bakeries…have proven more than their baking abilities. They’ve also helped both the bakers and their customers come to a deeper understanding of their heritage.”[/pullquote]Meanwhile, the business itself is the epitome of Asian American duality: Li writes the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cookdelish_bymamalin/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> captions in both English and traditional Chinese characters, aspiring to reach speakers of both languages. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that sense, Asian American home bakeries like MamaLin’s across the Bay Area have proven more than their baking abilities. They’ve also helped both the bakers and their customers come to a deeper understanding of their heritage and their dual identities, juxtaposing flavors from the East and the West. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quarantine ignited the long-lost baker inside many Americans—not just of sourdough but also salted egg yolks and all their auspicious glory.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The kitchen became a haven for culture and family recipes during these bewildering times. And, at least for some Asian Americans, baking became an important way to rewrite the narrative.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kapwa Baking Company takes orders for delivery and pickup (in South San Francisco) via online forms available on its \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/kapwabakingco?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bigboimochi/?hl=en\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Boi Mochi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes orders for delivery and pickup (in Oakland) via its \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://bigboimochi.co/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">website\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MamaLin’s Bakery takes orders for delivery and pickup (in Hayes Valley or Daly City) via online forms available on its \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/cookdelish_bymamalin?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evan Sun is a junior at Saint Ignatius College Preparatory who loves Boudin clam chowder bread bowls and Cantonese pineapple buns. When he isn’t scoping out new hole-in-the-walls, he’s probably out on the water as coxswain for his school’s rowing team.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Youth Takeover week\u003c/a>. From April 25-29, we’re featuring stories by high school students from around the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Q\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>uarantine ignited the long-lost baker inside many Americans, who spent the early days of the pandemic tearing through yeast packets, with all their leavening glory. The kitchen became a haven for creativity during these bewildering times. For a while, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877479936/the-great-pandemic-bake-off-may-be-over\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it felt as though everyone in America was baking sourdough or focaccia\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some Asian American bakers, on the other hand, looked toward their identities for inspiration. Instead of sourdough bread, their ovens churned out trays of Hawaiian butter mochi, ube bread pudding and garlic-scallion cream cheese buns. These home bakers used many of the same ingredients as their sourdough-obsessed counterparts—flour, water, yeast and sugar. But they also incorporated traditional flavors from their own culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13912603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/EvanSun.headshot-1-160x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/EvanSun.headshot-1-160x178.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/EvanSun.headshot-1.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the pandemic progressed, a number of Asian American home bakers started sharing these treats on Instagram and other social media platforms—and, in many cases, turned their hobby into an online business. Here in the Bay Area, the past two years have given rise to a growing movement of Asian American home bakeries. For these Instagram-based businesses, the pandemic did more than just provide a chance to explore new recipes. It also allowed Asian American bakers to develop a deeper connection to their own heritage. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homage to Ube\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South San Francisco-based \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kapwabakingco/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kapwa Baking Company\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is one of the many Instagram-based home businesses that popped up during the pandemic. As work turned remote and schools switched to Zoom, Faye Baltazar-Caylao and Ryan Caylao finally had the spare time to jumpstart an idea that had been stuck on the backburner for years. The couple wanted to start a business that encapsulates their Filipino heritage and the idea of “kapwa.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2199px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up photo of a box of chocolate chip cookies, with a row of bright purple ube white chocolate cookies on the left and more conventional-looking chocolate chip cookies on the right.\" width=\"2199\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies.jpg 2199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-2048x1408.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/kapwa_cookies-1920x1320.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2199px) 100vw, 2199px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Kapwa Baking Company, even the chocolate chip cookies are spiked with ube. \u003ccite>(Kapwa Baking Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kapwa is “Filipino for neighbor, community, or a shared sense of self,” the Caylaos explained. “There’s not a concrete definition for kapwa. It’s an essence or feeling for Filipino independence. It’s almost like ‘we are kapwa’ ‘we are united’.” It’s a sense of pride that seeps through generations of Filipinos and through hundreds of years of Spanish colonialism. This Filipino pride is evident on Kapwa Baking Company’s Instagram feed, which spills bright violets—\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912001/ube-festival-filipino-kapwa-gardens-yum-yams-san-francisco-marleys-treats\">an homage to ube, a purple yam native to the Philippines\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flavors like ube are deemed exotic and “out there” in the States, Baltazar-Caylao explains: “It was always Americanized desserts like buttercream, cakes and cupcakes. American flavors like vanilla, chocolate, and cookies and cream”. Baltazar-Caylao, on the other hand, placed ube at the heart of her business. All of Kapwa’s sweets have an ube variety.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Kapwa’s signature sweets is their ube bread pudding, which shows off the rich and decadent nature of ube. Each warm bite is like a hug, as the dessert’s nutty, delicate flavor coats your mouth. Ube is also the star ingredient of the ube pastilla milk jam, a sweet paste reminiscent of condensed milk that goes well with several of the bakery’s desserts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other items give a Filipino twist to all-American desserts like brownies and white chocolate chip cookies. By giving these treats an ube punch, the Caylaos encapsulate the Filipino American experience, in which a crossfire of characteristics—Tagalog and English, ube and chocolate, Filipino and American—all come together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cross-Cultural Relations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the bay in Oakland, Chinese Americans Tina Lee and Irene Pan started \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bigboimochi/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Boi Mochi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a way to highlight another element of Asian American culture: bouncy Hawaiian-style butter mochi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like the Caylaos, Lee and Pan had an epiphany during the middle of the pandemic. Lee, the baker, was “stuck in limbo” after graduating from college. Meanwhile, Pan noticed the new trend of home bakers selling desserts on Instagram, and she remembered Lee’s mouthwatering Hawaiian butter mochi—a recipe she’d inherited from her mom. So, Pan pitched her friend on the idea of turning that mochi into a business. Big Boi Mochi was born after Lee tweaked the original recipe to fit a variety of distinct Asian flavors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon.jpg\" alt=\"Three squares of melon-flavored mochi on a plate, next to a melon popsicle with the same pale green color.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/BigBoiMochi_Melon-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The melon mochi were inspired by a popular brand of Korean ice cream bars. \u003ccite>(Big Boi Mochi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During their pop-ups, Pan and Lee say, many non-Asian customers “come for the flavor, but they stay for that chewy, soft texture of mochi.” Their mochi also emphasizes the depth of diversity and cross-cultural relations between Asian communities in the Bay Area. And mochi offers new experiences to customers who are unfamiliar with flavors like Vietnamese coffee and pandan, a popular Southeast Asian leaf with an earthy, grassy taste. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite incorporating a plethora of diverse Asian cultures in its products, Big Boi Mochi is rooted in its founders’ Chinese American identities. The black sesame and salted egg mochi, for instance, are chewy little flavor bombs that capture the memories and nostalgia of growing up Chinese: They’re familiar flavors for anyone who has tasted the salted yolk in a mooncake or the nuttiness of zi ma wu (black sesame paste). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raised in a predominantly white area, Pan and Lee say they were always labeled as “diverse.” After being forced into the margins for so long, they’re now using their pride in being Chinese American to bring their products to life. And after the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876061/report-asian-americas-more-stressed-by-anti-asian-hate-than-covid-19\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">influx of xenophobia and anti-Asian hate\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that we’ve seen in our communities during the pandemic, finding solidarity through food feels especially important. Businesses like Big Boi Mochi allow a wide range of Asian Americans to join together, even if it’s around something as small as a butter mochi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Taste of Hong Kong\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB.jpg\" alt=\"The owner of MamaLin's Baker stands in front of the sidewalk table she's set up to sell her baked treats.\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-800x1101.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-1020x1404.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-768x1057.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/291CAA9D-EB4D-4339-80B5-B639496B49AB-1116x1536.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqualine Li started MamaLin’s Bakery to help give customers “a piece of Hong Kong” through her food. \u003ccite>(MamaLin's Bakery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the newer Asian American home bakeries have formed their own collaborative community during the pandemic, often promoting each other’s pop-ups and tagging each other on Instagram. Pan and Lee, for instance, made a point of mentioning their friendship with San Francisco’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cookdelish_bymamalin/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MamaLin’s Bakery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Hong Kong-style home bakery that sells a swath of savory and sweet Asian treats that are hard to find elsewhere in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pandemic hit, founder Jacqualine Li became a stay-at-home mom after not being able to find work. With her extra free time, she began experimenting with different recipes that she’d learned in her native Hong Kong. “Whenever I go back to Hong Kong, I would always try to take a cooking class to learn different techniques and cuisine that isn’t common in America,” Li explains.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It wasn’t until she accumulated a surplus from all the baking she was doing for her family that Li started giving away samples to friends and extended family. Posting her creations on Instagram allowed her to reach an even bigger audience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After immigrating from Hong Kong in her 20s, Li says her ability to recreate culturally nostalgic foods like pork floss buns and mooncakes has always helped her feel connected to her heritage. She hopes customers, especially other immigrants, will “find a piece of Hong Kong in [her] food.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li makes the kind of buns and other fresh baked goods that you might stumble upon in a bakery in Hong Kong, but the treats are also unique in their presentation or in the way they incorporate ingredients such as cream cheese or durian. For instance, MamaLin’s signature scallion garlic cream cheese buns reminded me of the scallion buns prevalent in Cantonese and Hong Kong-style bakeries—but Li combines the salty scallion flavor of the topping with a velvety, honey-flavored cream cheese filling. To say that the combination was addictive would be an understatement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B.jpg\" alt=\"Scallion garlic cream cheese bun on a wooden cutting board, with the bun's oozy cream cheese interior visible.\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1656\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/471E59F3-7366-43DB-9D6D-1F21CB7B540B-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scallion garlic cream cheese bun takes a standard Hong Kong-style scallion bun and adds sweet, velvety cream cheese to the mix. \u003ccite>(MamaLin's Bakery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Kapwa Baking Company’s Filipino American twists, Li’s creations sit at an intersection between cultures. The durian daifuku mochi features the potent flavor of the durian, a fruit native to Southeast Asia—an unexpected addition to Japanese mochi since the stereotypically smelly fruit isn’t especially popular in Japan. But that’s what makes MamaLin’s so innovative, as it brings different corners of Asia together in one harmonious treat.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, the business itself is the epitome of Asian American duality: Li writes the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cookdelish_bymamalin/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> captions in both English and traditional Chinese characters, aspiring to reach speakers of both languages. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that sense, Asian American home bakeries like MamaLin’s across the Bay Area have proven more than their baking abilities. They’ve also helped both the bakers and their customers come to a deeper understanding of their heritage and their dual identities, juxtaposing flavors from the East and the West. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quarantine ignited the long-lost baker inside many Americans—not just of sourdough but also salted egg yolks and all their auspicious glory.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The kitchen became a haven for culture and family recipes during these bewildering times. And, at least for some Asian Americans, baking became an important way to rewrite the narrative.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kapwa Baking Company takes orders for delivery and pickup (in South San Francisco) via online forms available on its \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/kapwabakingco?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bigboimochi/?hl=en\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Boi Mochi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes orders for delivery and pickup (in Oakland) via its \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://bigboimochi.co/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">website\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MamaLin’s Bakery takes orders for delivery and pickup (in Hayes Valley or Daly City) via online forms available on its \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/cookdelish_bymamalin?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Annette Block has spent the pandemic figuring out what it means to be part of an artistic community without being able to \u003ci>see\u003c/i> much of that artistic community. Before lockdown, the ceramicist periodically opened up her home studio to workshops, pop-up sales and short exhibitions by other artists. Keeping her doors closed was a choice, not a necessity. “If I just felt like focusing on my own work and not having classes or shows in there, I could just not have anything for like two years if I wanted to,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13877846']But she has bristled against the forced isolation of the past two years. When she downsized to a studio apartment in the spring of 2021, the move coincided with that brief moment when we all thought we might get to begin socializing again. But, Block says, “The pandemic just kept going on, as we know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, Block has launched a solution that merges her desire to support and interact with other artists with the particular constraints of living in a small space during an unpredictable time: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/magicchefgallery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magic Chef Gallery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web.jpg\" alt=\"Two black and white drawings on a fridge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work by Jason Jägel on Magic Chef Gallery. \u003ccite>(Magic Chef Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here, the white walls are not Swiss Coffee-painted drywall, but the double doors of a Home Depot-brand refrigerator. Besides the rare houseguest, the only in-person audience is Block herself. Everyone else is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/magicchefgallery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">following the space on Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed a creative project and it was just some real estate that I felt like I could utilize—my fridge,” Block explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco gallery mounted its first show in September 2021 with three oil pastels on paper by Brooklyn artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.emiliawolsen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emilia Olsen\u003c/a>. Each show lasts two to three weeks, with the exhibition schedule organized into six-show “seasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magic Chef is the latest—and possibly cutest—in a long line of alternative Bay Area exhibition spaces, many of which have been located in or around their organizers’ homes. But there’s something distinctly pandemic-friendly about a space that can be easily understood through images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900.jpeg\" alt=\"Small food sculptures on a fridge\" width=\"900\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900.jpeg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900-800x1000.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work by Rebecca Ackermann on Magic Chef Gallery. \u003ccite>(Magic Chef Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The gallery’s second season just launched on Feb. 21 with ink drawings on paper by San Francisco artist \u003ca href=\"https://jasonjagel.com/copy-of-about-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Jägel\u003c/a> (known to many for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905457/one-year-after-mf-dooms-death-bay-area-artists-honor-the-legend\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cover art\u003c/a> he created for multiple MF DOOM albums). His large black-and-white pieces—one image spread across two pieces of paper—nearly cover both doors of the refrigerator. Magnetic lettering spelling out Jägel’s name in Block’s handwriting fits neatly below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody seems really enthusiastic about it,” Block says of artists she’s invited to show work at Magic Chef. “They all think it’s very amusing and manageable.” A fridge already exists as a space where things get showcased, she points out. Magic Chef just formalizes that relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the gallery is perhaps best suited to showing works on paper, several artists have ventured beyond the traditional fridge medium. San Francisco artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.rebeccaackermann.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Ackermann\u003c/a> backed her polymer clay sculptures with magnets, creating miniature tableaux of various spilled foods for \u003ci>Oops I Did it Again\u003c/i>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Annette Block has spent the pandemic figuring out what it means to be part of an artistic community without being able to \u003ci>see\u003c/i> much of that artistic community. Before lockdown, the ceramicist periodically opened up her home studio to workshops, pop-up sales and short exhibitions by other artists. Keeping her doors closed was a choice, not a necessity. “If I just felt like focusing on my own work and not having classes or shows in there, I could just not have anything for like two years if I wanted to,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But she has bristled against the forced isolation of the past two years. When she downsized to a studio apartment in the spring of 2021, the move coincided with that brief moment when we all thought we might get to begin socializing again. But, Block says, “The pandemic just kept going on, as we know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, Block has launched a solution that merges her desire to support and interact with other artists with the particular constraints of living in a small space during an unpredictable time: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/magicchefgallery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magic Chef Gallery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web.jpg\" alt=\"Two black and white drawings on a fridge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Jagel_install1_web-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work by Jason Jägel on Magic Chef Gallery. \u003ccite>(Magic Chef Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here, the white walls are not Swiss Coffee-painted drywall, but the double doors of a Home Depot-brand refrigerator. Besides the rare houseguest, the only in-person audience is Block herself. Everyone else is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/magicchefgallery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">following the space on Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed a creative project and it was just some real estate that I felt like I could utilize—my fridge,” Block explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco gallery mounted its first show in September 2021 with three oil pastels on paper by Brooklyn artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.emiliawolsen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emilia Olsen\u003c/a>. Each show lasts two to three weeks, with the exhibition schedule organized into six-show “seasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magic Chef is the latest—and possibly cutest—in a long line of alternative Bay Area exhibition spaces, many of which have been located in or around their organizers’ homes. But there’s something distinctly pandemic-friendly about a space that can be easily understood through images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900.jpeg\" alt=\"Small food sculptures on a fridge\" width=\"900\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900.jpeg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900-800x1000.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Ackermann_install1_web_900-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work by Rebecca Ackermann on Magic Chef Gallery. \u003ccite>(Magic Chef Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The gallery’s second season just launched on Feb. 21 with ink drawings on paper by San Francisco artist \u003ca href=\"https://jasonjagel.com/copy-of-about-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Jägel\u003c/a> (known to many for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905457/one-year-after-mf-dooms-death-bay-area-artists-honor-the-legend\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cover art\u003c/a> he created for multiple MF DOOM albums). His large black-and-white pieces—one image spread across two pieces of paper—nearly cover both doors of the refrigerator. Magnetic lettering spelling out Jägel’s name in Block’s handwriting fits neatly below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody seems really enthusiastic about it,” Block says of artists she’s invited to show work at Magic Chef. “They all think it’s very amusing and manageable.” A fridge already exists as a space where things get showcased, she points out. Magic Chef just formalizes that relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the gallery is perhaps best suited to showing works on paper, several artists have ventured beyond the traditional fridge medium. San Francisco artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.rebeccaackermann.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Ackermann\u003c/a> backed her polymer clay sculptures with magnets, creating miniature tableaux of various spilled foods for \u003ci>Oops I Did it Again\u003c/i>. Los Angeles artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.robertaklug.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberta Klug\u003c/a> even ventured inside the fridge, contributing a ceramic sculpture of a friendly flower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1641px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Colliard_3_1641.jpeg\" alt=\"Abstract drawing of flowers in greens and yellows\" width=\"1641\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Colliard_3_1641.jpeg 1641w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Colliard_3_1641-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Colliard_3_1641-1020x816.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Colliard_3_1641-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Colliard_3_1641-768x614.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Colliard_3_1641-1536x1228.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1641px) 100vw, 1641px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work by Anjelica Colliard on Magic Chef Gallery. \u003ccite>(Magic Chef Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artists, Block says, immediately understand the creative assignment and run with it. “It’s really clear parameters,” she says, “physically and conceptually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Works in Magic Chef shows are for sale, and Block tries to keep everything affordable—under $300. “I just want things to be easy,” she says. “And even if it’s a fun project, it’s also a professional opportunity for these artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After co-directing an artist-run space in Oakland and working in public-facing positions in various commercial galleries, Block has found what for now feels like the perfect way of presenting art on her own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole project is distinctly anti-social,” she laughs. “I guess it’s just entertaining for me, actually. It’s completely satisfying and fun every day when I go in there.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Over the weekend, she posted this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CSkTuS0JqD7/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Tuesday, the determination expressed in that initial image had transformed into a devastating expression of defeat:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsEKI_pyG-/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hassani’s art was picked up and shared by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/amightygirl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Mighty Girl\u003c/a> on Facebook, as a means to encourage people to donate to organizations—including \u003ca href=\"https://womenforafghanwomen.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women for Afghan Women\u003c/a>—that are helping Afghans on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the Afghanistan-related art being shared on social media currently, however, is several years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-year-old image below, by artist Minna Mamik Momand, has been re-circulating on Instagram, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CSpDdaHL7-u/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">someone added the date\u003c/a> of the Taliban takeover to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BkTbOAUBbc5/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This haunting image by Afghan street artist Malina Suliman, which was created at least six years ago, has also been shared widely as part of online protests about the reality now facing Afghan women in their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CSpccr2D88_/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this painting by Lida Afghan, originally created for International Women’s Day in March, also began circulating on social media over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13901337\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-11.05.15-AM-800x1057.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-11.05.15-AM-800x1057.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-11.05.15-AM-160x211.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-11.05.15-AM-768x1015.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-11.05.15-AM.png 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lida, an Afghan artist now based in Denmark, posted a message of defiance on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CSrnKeaiEbZ/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Afghan ex-pat, Zayn Sadatt, currently based in Seattle, used his Instagram platform to cry out for international assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CSgL3CgruT7/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of artworks protesting the Taliban’s takeover are coming from outside of Afghanistan, as artists from around the world express concern and sadness from afar. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been a hot week full of court documents and news drops. And now, we’re ready for a calmer and cooler break with time to breathe. And fortunately, we’ve got recommendations for podcasts, binge-able television and good reading for your holiday weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80991848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sex/Life,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Netflix\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Netflix has a show called \u003cem>Sex/Life \u003c/em>and the reason I am interested in it is that it is yet another example of Netflix’s strange positioning in the streaming wars. It’s sort of like if you took\u003cem> Fifty Shades of Grey \u003c/em>but actually put sex in it, but then also overlaid a Lifetime movie on that. It has that feeling of softcore Showtime from the ’80s. It’s funny as hell, and campy, and silly… and you know, they don’t make movies like that anymore—your \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108162/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sliver\u003c/em>s \u003c/a>and your \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Basic Instinct\u003c/em>s\u003c/a>—your sex thriller or your disaffected housewife infidelity film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ’90s had a whole world of that and Netflix is weirdly jumping in that pool and maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Maybe streaming is bringing back a diversity of programming—like all these little genres that kind of fell away under the Marvel steamroller. So I can’t recommend \u003cem>Sex/Life,\u003c/em> necessarily—but I’m happy that the streaming wars are still bringing us new things. I like that we’re in that moment. \u003cem>– Audie Cornish\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x580mowu5Gs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Jean Smart Renaissance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What’s making me happy is the Jean Smart-ification of HBO. The fact that she stars in the amazing comedy\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996117911/hacks-a-comedic-generational-divide-gets-bridged-jean-smartly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003cem>Hacks.\u003c/em>\u003c/a> She’s got a juicy, completely different role in the drama \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/30/1001577416/mare-of-easttown-your-finale-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Mare of Easttown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She killed it in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/770754377/who-watches-this-watchmen-i-will-and-you-should\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Watchmen\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Jean Smart has been doing the work for decades. I was a fan back in the \u003cem>Designing Women\u003c/em> days. She was incredible in the season of \u003cem>Fargo\u003c/em> where she played the mother of a Jewish organized crime family. She is \u003cem>such\u003c/em> a good actor with such a wide range. And right now she’s everywhere and I’m thrilled about it. Give me more Jean Smart—comedy, drama, thriller. I don’t care. All of it. I’ll take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT1qxLIMW8Y&t=81s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amazing YouTube video\u003c/a> in which the comedian Megan Stalter—who has a bit part in\u003cem> Hacks\u003c/em> and is also having a moment—interviews all the members of the cast of \u003cem>Hacks\u003c/em> and just bulldozes them and does her thing and there is a genius moment where she’s interviewing Jean Smart and it becomes clear that she is confusing Jean Smart with Kim Cattrall from \u003cem>Sex in the City\u003c/em>. 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She also touched on the fallout from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007350665/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-directs-fiery-essay-at-former-student-and-cancel-cultur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">problematic comments\u003c/a> she made about trans women in a 2017 interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new essay, Adichie’s conclusions about the effects of social media—particularly on “young people”—were decisive. “There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion,” she wrote, “who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_69713']Adichie continued: “People who demand that you denounce your friends for flimsy reasons in order to remain a member of the chosen puritan class. People who depend on obfuscation, who have no compassion for anybody genuinely curious or confused. Ask them a question and you are told that the answer is to repeat a mantra … And so we have a generation of young people on social media so terrified of having the wrong opinions that they have robbed themselves of the opportunity to think and to learn and to grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author concluded: “I have spoken to young people who tell me they are terrified to tweet anything, that they read and re-read their tweets because they fear they will be attacked by their own. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. 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In an in-depth analysis of social media etiquette, prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/chrissy-teigen-s-bullying-regret-fit-well-known-pattern-here-ncna1271016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrissy Teigen’s apologies for bullying behavior\u003c/a> online, Noah attempted to take a hopeful tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad [Teigen is] owning up to being a horrible person online,” he began, “because that is what we want, right? We want people to be better and we want people to grow. … What really gives me hope is that, back when Chrissy was bullying people online, millions of people were cheering for her. But now, a lot of those people are criticizing her for that same thing that they cheered. … It shows you that society has evolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNiQ60xBTG4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah, without referencing Adichie’s essay, expanded on her observations regarding the online obsession with the “appearance of goodness.” He pointed out that the online compulsion to call others out for bad behavior often has a tendency to result in more of the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have to understand,” Noah explained, “is that social media pushes people into being their most asshole-ish self. Roasting people, dunking on them, that’s how you get the likes. … Twitter sees when a few people attack someone, and they put that in the trending topics. … So then what do you end up with? You end up with millions of people looking to roast each other. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ biggest fear as a parent isn’t gun violence, or drunk driving, or anything related to the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And specifically, the new sense of “brokenness” she hears about in children in her district, and nationwide. Teen depression and suicide rates have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/12/a-growing-number-of-american-teenagers-particularly-girls-are-facing-depression/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising for over a decade\u003c/a>, and she sees social apps as a major reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing this March on Capitol Hill, the Republican congresswoman from Washington confronted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai with a list of statistics: From 2011 to 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31415993/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rates\u003c/a> of teen depression increased by more than 60%, and from 2009 to 2015, emergency room admissions for self-harm among 10- to 14-year-old girls \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2664031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tripled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-12.57.10-PM-800x529.png\" alt=\"Source: CDC National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-12.57.10-PM-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-12.57.10-PM-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-12.57.10-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-12.57.10-PM-768x508.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-12.57.10-PM-1536x1015.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-12.57.10-PM.png 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: CDC National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys. \u003ccite>(Credit: Zach Levitt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a battle for their development. It’s a battle for their mental health—and ultimately a battle for their safety,” McMorris Rodgers told the tech leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she pointed a question specifically to Zuckerberg, about whether he acknowledged a connection between children’s declining mental health and social media platforms, he demurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that the research is conclusive on that,” replied Zuckerberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a position that he and his company, which is working on expanding its offerings to even younger children, have held for years. But mental health researchers whom NPR spoke with disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They describe an increasingly clear correlation between poor mental health outcomes and social media use, and they worry that Facebook (which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp) in particular may be muddying the waters on that connection to protect its public image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13886630']“The correlational evidence showing that there is a link between social media use and depression is pretty definitive at this point,” said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University. “The largest and most well-conducted studies that we have all show that teens who spend more time on social media are more likely to be depressed or unhappy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correlation is not causation, and one area of further study is whether greater social media usage leads to poor mental health outcomes or whether those who are depressed and unhappy are drawn to spend more time on social media. But researchers also worry that not enough government funding is going toward getting objective data to answer these sorts of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also almost certainly knows more than it has publicly revealed about how its products affect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with Twenge and two other academics whose work has focused on the links between depression and social media use and who say Facebook’s public affairs team reached out to them for the first time ever in recent months for input on internal information related to the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to comment about the meeting requests and about its stance on research about its platforms. But the outreach comes at a pivotal time for Facebook and its plans for growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government regulation is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/981203566/5-takeaways-from-big-techs-misinformation-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closer than ever\u003c/a> before, and the issue of children’s mental health is one of the few concerns about Big Tech that Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it was revealed that Facebook was working on a version of Instagram for children under 13, a bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general \u003ca href=\"https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/naag_letter_to_facebook_-_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a letter\u003c/a> to Zuckerberg this month with a simple message: Stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use of social media can be detrimental to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media account,” the letter reads. “Further, Facebook has historically failed to protect the welfare of children on its platforms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after McMorris Rodgers spoke at the March congressional hearing, Rep. Kathy Castor, a Florida Democrat, asked Zuckerberg whether he was familiar with a \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2737909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 study\u003c/a> that found the risk of depression in children rises with each hour spent daily on social media. He said he was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You enjoy an outdated liability shield that incentivizes you to look the other way or take half-measures,” Castor said, “while you make billions at the expense of our kids, our health and the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Internal “insights”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenge has been studying and writing about technology’s effects on people born between 1995 and 2012 for much of the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13885533']She dubbed the generation “iGen” in a 2017 book that features an abundance of charts showing huge drop-offs in happiness among teens in the last decade compared with previous generations and huge increases in loneliness and suicide risk, especially in teens who are on their phones more than an hour or two a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since 2017, those trends have mostly gotten worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For depression and anxiety and self-harm, those increases have continued,” Twenge said. “As smartphones became even more pervasive, social media became even more pervasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the four years since her book came out, no one from any of the major social media companies reached out to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until about three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got an email from someone at Facebook who said they were putting together an advisory panel,” Twenge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email came from a lower-level employee at the company on behalf of Heather Moore, a public affairs executive at Facebook who helped create the company’s Oversight Board. (That panel, which is funded by Facebook through a $130 million independent trust, is made up of \u003ca href=\"https://oversightboard.com/meet-the-board/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 prominent experts\u003c/a> from around the world.) The board recently announced its biggest decision yet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/07/994436847/what-we-learned-about-facebook-from-trump-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">siding with the company\u003c/a> on its decision to suspend former President Donald Trump from the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other researchers NPR spoke with say they received a similar meeting request. One did not wish to be named in this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request says Facebook is “currently working on speaking with a range of experts who study algorithms and virality,” but it doesn’t specify whether the company is planning to assemble a more organized public- or private-facing group of experts focused on the mental health effects of the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook declined to provide more detail about the requests, but a spokesperson did note that a company as large as Facebook reaches out to a variety of subject-matter experts frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email does, however, allude to the company having relevant internal information regarding the mental health effects of its platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The team would like to share some insights about what we’re working on internally and ask for your input,” the email says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March hearing on Capitol Hill, Zuckerberg told McMorris Rodgers that the company has specifically researched the mental health effects that his company’s platforms have on children. But when McMorris Rodgers’ staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-usa-congress-tech-idCAKBN2BM2UI-OCATC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followed up\u003c/a> after the hearing, she says the company declined to share any of its research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that they have done the research. They’re not being transparent,” McMorris Rodgers told NPR in an interview. “They seem to be more concerned about their current business model, and they have become very wealthy under their current business model. But the fact of the matter is we’re seeing more and more evidence … that their current business model is harming our kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally in response to these kinds of questions, Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has pointed to research\u003c/a> indicating that poor mental health outcomes like depression stem from how people use the platforms and specifically whether they are “active” users who post and message people or “passive” users who mostly consume content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implication is that people have control over whether they feel bad from using the platforms, since users have a choice in whether they message their friends on Instagram, for instance, or whether they choose to scroll endlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Melissa Hunt, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says it’s not so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13867167']The company’s success is dependent on keeping people engaged and selling advertisements based on that engagement, so Facebook, she says, is motivated to create systems that keep people on its platforms no matter the effect to their long-term well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt was another one of the researchers who received an inquiry from Facebook about \u003ca href=\"https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/social-media-use-increases-depression-and-loneliness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her work\u003c/a> linking social media use and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically all of the things that would contribute to these platforms being healthier for people to use, which is basically spend less time, don’t follow strangers, don’t spend time passively scrolling through this random feed that’s being suggested to you,” Hunt says. “That completely undermines their whole business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she got a request for her time from the company, she says she thought about it. Then she also thought about what Facebook is currently valued at: close to a trillion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided that if they were serious about that, they could pay me a nominal consulting fee,” Hunt says. “So I let them know what my consulting fee was. I said I’d be delighted to weigh in and share my expertise with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never heard back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Twenge responded to the request from the company and said she was interested in setting up a time to talk, but after a few back-and-forth messages, she has yet to hear back again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenge feels strongly that while the research on the psychological impact of social media is relatively new, there are takeaways that can already be drawn, even as some insist on labeling it all “inconclusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s similar to the way that climate deniers can point to a few people in that field and say, ‘There’s a few people who still doubt this.’ It’s that false equivalence that happens too often,” Twenge said. “In this case, that small but vocal group has been very skilled at getting that message out, perhaps because these companies are very receptive to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions without answers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-social-media-is-more-_b_11297988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-said-at-davos-that-facebook-should-be-regulated-like-cigarettes-2018-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taken\u003c/a> to comparing social media to something else that previous generations used to fill idle moments to the detriment of their health: smoking cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After smoking became \u003ca href=\"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sales-of-cigarettes-per-adult-per-day?time=1900..2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly universal\u003c/a>, cigarette companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/89114979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">famously\u003c/a> muddied the waters on research about how their products were harming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policy making is facilitated by consensus. However, scientific research is characterized by uncertainty,” wrote researcher Lisa Bero in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497700/pdf/15842123.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a paper\u003c/a> about how cigarette companies manipulated research. “It is often to the benefit of interest groups to generate controversy about data because the controversy is likely to slow or prevent regulation of a given product.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brian Primack, who leads the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, says comparing the current research situation around social media and cigarettes is too simplistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Primack used to study tobacco. (“If it kills a lot of people, I want to study it,” he says about how he has chosen what to focus on throughout his career.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he spends his time investigating the effects of social media. And he sees a clear connection between depression and the online platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study \u003ca href=\"https://news.uark.edu/articles/55480/increased-social-media-use-linked-to-developing-depression-research-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he published last year\u003c/a> found that young adults who increased their social media usage over a period of time were also found to be significantly more likely to become depressed over that same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883979']“There is an association between the two,” Primack says. “Just meaning that if you put people into equal buckets in terms of how much social media they use, the people who use the most social media are also the people who are the most depressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike cigarettes, which he says have no useful purpose, some people have shown positive health outcomes from using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/19/621136346/a-look-at-social-media-finds-some-possible-benefits-for-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brain development research\u003c/a> in recent years, for instance, found benefits in 9- and 10-year-olds from using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media is very heterogeneous. In some kids it can be very beneficial, and in other kids it can be very detrimental,” said the author of that study, Dr. Martin Paulus of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. “But we still don’t understand which group of kids benefit from it and which group of kids may be harmed by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulus is not confident the social media companies truly want to get to the bottom of that question either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago, Paulus gave a presentation at Facebook with a few other researchers who were looking at the effects of social media. He came away from the meeting feeling like the company wasn’t serious about actually having objective research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more like a face-saving activity,” Paulus said. “Those companies, whether it’s Facebook or other companies as well, they say they want research… But they’re not necessarily interested in research that potentially would show that some of the things that they do are bad for kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a thorny issue to wade into. The company says that it employs hundreds of researchers and that it also supports efforts like Boston Children’s Hospital’s newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom/news-and-events/2021/digital-wellness-lab-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Wellness Lab\u003c/a> and the Aspen Institute’s \u003ca href=\"https://csreports.aspeninstitute.org/Lessons-in-Loneliness/2020/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roundtables on loneliness and technology\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it has also been criticized for using its platforms for research purposes. In 2012, the company allowed researchers to change what people saw on the platform in order to see how that would affect the nature of what they then chose to post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> did show evidence that people’s moods are affected by what they see other people posting, but some saw the exercise as emotional manipulation, and one of the authors seemed to express \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regret\u003c/a> about conducting it after the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a company with one of the largest data troves on the human population, this question of how best to conduct research expands to other sectors too. Disinformation researchers, for instance, have long been frustrated by what the company chooses and chooses not to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could answer questions that we desperately need answered any time they want, and they just won’t do it,” said Ben Scott, executive director at Reset, an initiative aimed at tackling digital threats to democracy. “They’ve chosen, for public relations reasons, not to participate in helping the public interest… And that’s outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential dangers of kids spending hours hypnotized by their screens has been apparent essentially since the social media platforms were created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founding Facebook President Sean Parker once described, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-god-only-knows-what-its-doing-to-our-childrens-brains-1513306792-f855e7b4-4e99-4d60-8d51-2775559c2671.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interview with Axios\u003c/a>, the company’s algorithms as “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” Parker said. “The inventors, creators—it’s me, it’s Mark [Zuckerberg], it’s Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it’s all of these people—understood this consciously. And we did it anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is compounded by how little government funding is going toward studying the effects of these platforms, relative to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/971767967/trump-is-no-longer-tweeting-but-online-disinformation-isnt-going-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how much of each day\u003c/a> many Americans spend engaged with the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is mostly focused on curing diseases, but because there is no specific disease officially associated with screen time, experts say it’s difficult to get studies funded by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CAMRA%20Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bill\u003c/a> that would have provided a mechanism for more NIH research on the subject. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The correlational evidence showing that there is a link between social media use and depression is pretty definitive at this point,” said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University. “The largest and most well-conducted studies that we have all show that teens who spend more time on social media are more likely to be depressed or unhappy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correlation is not causation, and one area of further study is whether greater social media usage leads to poor mental health outcomes or whether those who are depressed and unhappy are drawn to spend more time on social media. But researchers also worry that not enough government funding is going toward getting objective data to answer these sorts of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also almost certainly knows more than it has publicly revealed about how its products affect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with Twenge and two other academics whose work has focused on the links between depression and social media use and who say Facebook’s public affairs team reached out to them for the first time ever in recent months for input on internal information related to the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to comment about the meeting requests and about its stance on research about its platforms. But the outreach comes at a pivotal time for Facebook and its plans for growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government regulation is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/981203566/5-takeaways-from-big-techs-misinformation-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closer than ever\u003c/a> before, and the issue of children’s mental health is one of the few concerns about Big Tech that Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it was revealed that Facebook was working on a version of Instagram for children under 13, a bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general \u003ca href=\"https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/naag_letter_to_facebook_-_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a letter\u003c/a> to Zuckerberg this month with a simple message: Stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use of social media can be detrimental to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media account,” the letter reads. “Further, Facebook has historically failed to protect the welfare of children on its platforms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after McMorris Rodgers spoke at the March congressional hearing, Rep. Kathy Castor, a Florida Democrat, asked Zuckerberg whether he was familiar with a \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2737909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 study\u003c/a> that found the risk of depression in children rises with each hour spent daily on social media. He said he was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You enjoy an outdated liability shield that incentivizes you to look the other way or take half-measures,” Castor said, “while you make billions at the expense of our kids, our health and the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Internal “insights”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenge has been studying and writing about technology’s effects on people born between 1995 and 2012 for much of the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The company’s success is dependent on keeping people engaged and selling advertisements based on that engagement, so Facebook, she says, is motivated to create systems that keep people on its platforms no matter the effect to their long-term well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt was another one of the researchers who received an inquiry from Facebook about \u003ca href=\"https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/social-media-use-increases-depression-and-loneliness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her work\u003c/a> linking social media use and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically all of the things that would contribute to these platforms being healthier for people to use, which is basically spend less time, don’t follow strangers, don’t spend time passively scrolling through this random feed that’s being suggested to you,” Hunt says. “That completely undermines their whole business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she got a request for her time from the company, she says she thought about it. Then she also thought about what Facebook is currently valued at: close to a trillion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided that if they were serious about that, they could pay me a nominal consulting fee,” Hunt says. “So I let them know what my consulting fee was. I said I’d be delighted to weigh in and share my expertise with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never heard back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Twenge responded to the request from the company and said she was interested in setting up a time to talk, but after a few back-and-forth messages, she has yet to hear back again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenge feels strongly that while the research on the psychological impact of social media is relatively new, there are takeaways that can already be drawn, even as some insist on labeling it all “inconclusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s similar to the way that climate deniers can point to a few people in that field and say, ‘There’s a few people who still doubt this.’ It’s that false equivalence that happens too often,” Twenge said. “In this case, that small but vocal group has been very skilled at getting that message out, perhaps because these companies are very receptive to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions without answers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-social-media-is-more-_b_11297988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-said-at-davos-that-facebook-should-be-regulated-like-cigarettes-2018-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taken\u003c/a> to comparing social media to something else that previous generations used to fill idle moments to the detriment of their health: smoking cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After smoking became \u003ca href=\"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sales-of-cigarettes-per-adult-per-day?time=1900..2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly universal\u003c/a>, cigarette companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/89114979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">famously\u003c/a> muddied the waters on research about how their products were harming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policy making is facilitated by consensus. However, scientific research is characterized by uncertainty,” wrote researcher Lisa Bero in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497700/pdf/15842123.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a paper\u003c/a> about how cigarette companies manipulated research. “It is often to the benefit of interest groups to generate controversy about data because the controversy is likely to slow or prevent regulation of a given product.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brian Primack, who leads the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, says comparing the current research situation around social media and cigarettes is too simplistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Primack used to study tobacco. (“If it kills a lot of people, I want to study it,” he says about how he has chosen what to focus on throughout his career.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he spends his time investigating the effects of social media. And he sees a clear connection between depression and the online platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study \u003ca href=\"https://news.uark.edu/articles/55480/increased-social-media-use-linked-to-developing-depression-research-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he published last year\u003c/a> found that young adults who increased their social media usage over a period of time were also found to be significantly more likely to become depressed over that same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There is an association between the two,” Primack says. “Just meaning that if you put people into equal buckets in terms of how much social media they use, the people who use the most social media are also the people who are the most depressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike cigarettes, which he says have no useful purpose, some people have shown positive health outcomes from using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/19/621136346/a-look-at-social-media-finds-some-possible-benefits-for-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brain development research\u003c/a> in recent years, for instance, found benefits in 9- and 10-year-olds from using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media is very heterogeneous. In some kids it can be very beneficial, and in other kids it can be very detrimental,” said the author of that study, Dr. Martin Paulus of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. “But we still don’t understand which group of kids benefit from it and which group of kids may be harmed by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulus is not confident the social media companies truly want to get to the bottom of that question either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago, Paulus gave a presentation at Facebook with a few other researchers who were looking at the effects of social media. He came away from the meeting feeling like the company wasn’t serious about actually having objective research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more like a face-saving activity,” Paulus said. “Those companies, whether it’s Facebook or other companies as well, they say they want research… But they’re not necessarily interested in research that potentially would show that some of the things that they do are bad for kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a thorny issue to wade into. The company says that it employs hundreds of researchers and that it also supports efforts like Boston Children’s Hospital’s newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom/news-and-events/2021/digital-wellness-lab-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Wellness Lab\u003c/a> and the Aspen Institute’s \u003ca href=\"https://csreports.aspeninstitute.org/Lessons-in-Loneliness/2020/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roundtables on loneliness and technology\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it has also been criticized for using its platforms for research purposes. In 2012, the company allowed researchers to change what people saw on the platform in order to see how that would affect the nature of what they then chose to post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> did show evidence that people’s moods are affected by what they see other people posting, but some saw the exercise as emotional manipulation, and one of the authors seemed to express \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regret\u003c/a> about conducting it after the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a company with one of the largest data troves on the human population, this question of how best to conduct research expands to other sectors too. Disinformation researchers, for instance, have long been frustrated by what the company chooses and chooses not to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could answer questions that we desperately need answered any time they want, and they just won’t do it,” said Ben Scott, executive director at Reset, an initiative aimed at tackling digital threats to democracy. “They’ve chosen, for public relations reasons, not to participate in helping the public interest… And that’s outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential dangers of kids spending hours hypnotized by their screens has been apparent essentially since the social media platforms were created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founding Facebook President Sean Parker once described, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-god-only-knows-what-its-doing-to-our-childrens-brains-1513306792-f855e7b4-4e99-4d60-8d51-2775559c2671.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interview with Axios\u003c/a>, the company’s algorithms as “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” Parker said. “The inventors, creators—it’s me, it’s Mark [Zuckerberg], it’s Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it’s all of these people—understood this consciously. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Monday, April 5, a lawsuit was brought against Bassnectar by two women who say they had sexual relationships with the Santa Cruz DJ-producer while they were still underage. The case also accuses the EDM star—real name Lorin Ashton—of human trafficking, as well as making and possessing child pornography. [aside postid='arts_13883674']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-defendants in the lawsuit include San Francisco record label \u003ca href=\"https://www.amorphousmusic.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amorphous Music\u003c/a>, along with Bassnectar Touring, \u003ca href=\"https://electronicdivision.redlightmanagement.com/artistmanagement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Red Light Management\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.c3presents.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C3 Presents\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://interactivegivingfund.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interactive Giving Fund\u003c/a> organization. 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These allegations, along with screenshots of emails and DMs from Ashton, were primarily gathered and shared by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/evidenceagainstbassnectar/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EvidenceAgainstBassnectar\u003c/a> Instagram account that launched in June 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsbottom and Bowling say Ashton initiated contact with them both via Twitter, initially in the manner of a friend and mentor. Interactions, they say, later became suggestive. Both say they had sex with him while underage, and that he solicited explicit photos from them. Ramsbottom says that several years later, Ashton offered her money to stay quiet about their former relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the details included in Ramsbottom and Bowling’s lawsuit had already been posted to the @EvidenceAgainstBassnectar Instagram page. Multiple stories shared by the account accuse Ashton of knowingly engaging in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCAmhzFpdPJ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sex with minors\u003c/a>, listing “young girls” on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCCBd6VpEmC/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his rider\u003c/a>, targeting \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCEia1apHy6/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">underage girls\u003c/a> online, using methods of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCHUtODJCgn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grooming\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCDV9JkpK-C/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emotional manipulation\u003c/a>, trying to make girls \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_5_54Jo7M/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign NDAs\u003c/a> and encouraging fans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_7dy6JIfF/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bully his critics\u003c/a>. One post claims that the rumors about his relationships with underage girls date all the way \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_1A9FJuT3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">back to 2010\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Bassnectar collaborators \u003ca href=\"https://mimipagemusic.tumblr.com/post/624224339345244160/an-open-letter-to-lorin-ashton-bassnectar-from\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mimi Page\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_1v3LJRvZ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miranda Hughes\u003c/a> have since publicly denounced Ashton. But @EvidenceAgainstBassnectar has also inspired some of his former lovers to write Tumblr essays detailing their own negative experiences with him. “\u003ca href=\"https://mynameislauren2020.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Name Is Lauren\u003c/a>” accuses Ashton of committing “psychological abuse for his own perverse pleasure” and “inappropriately target[ing] young women.” And the “\u003ca href=\"https://psychicprincesscreation.tumblr.com/post/623014073571885056/some-notesedits-made-77-bassnectar-told-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My EAB\u003c/a>” page claims that Ashton “DEFINITELY knows he’s doing something wrong, otherwise he wouldn’t be sharing that hush money with you, or asking you to hide and delete everything.” [aside postid='pop_61190']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashton, who rose to fame playing sets at Burning Man and EDM parties in San Francisco, has long publicly identified as anti-sexist. 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After digging out old photos for a friend’s birthday, Elizabeth Whitney—herself an occupant of three different East Bay punk houses in the ’90s and 2000s—decided, on a whim, to throw some pics up online. “I just thought, ‘God,’” Whitney tells KQED Arts, “‘I get to look at all these awesome pictures all the time and the people that are in them don’t get to share them with me.’ So I went on a three-hour late-night bender of loading them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895166 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitney started a brand new Instagram account she decided to call, simply, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/punkhouseoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PunkHouseOakland\u003c/a>. Within a few hours and a handful of tags, the new account wasn’t just being warmly received, it was blowing up. Whitney was quickly bombarded with photos from other former punk house kids. Some were old friends, some were strangers. It didn’t matter. Despite the years since the punk house peak, and the dispersal (and many deaths) of people in the scene, the DIY collective mentality of old quickly sprang back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since, Whitney—who now owns and runs a pilates and yoga studio in Brooklyn—has received so many hundreds of photos to share, she’s currently struggling to clear the backlog of submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13895167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been truly joyous and incredible to witness,” she says. “To have other people fill in the gaps of my memory, to have us celebrate and tell stories about each other—it’s been really reparative and healing. And so many people have reached out saying the same thing—that they’ve found people they thought they lost, or they healed some old wounds, or reconnected in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also,” Whitney continues, “in this time where physicality or intimacy with a large group of people is a really scary thing, there is, like, a deep yearning ache inside me when I look at how close we were. I can’t imagine I’m the only one. [We were all] just kissing, and on top of each other, and laying around holding each other, and dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894328\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Three pairs of hugging friends. (L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were so deeply alive,” Whitney says. “In our suffering, in our love for each other, in the things we were creating, in the things we despised. Just so, so much passion. And basically just trying to live life like it was our last day on Earth, every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In true punk rock fashion, Whitney doesn’t edit any of the content she receives. She just throws up the photos and asks followers to tag the people they recognize. Together for the first time, these photos act as a time machine for those who were there. And for those who weren’t, the collection offers a look inside punk houses—a lifestyle almost impossible to completely convey with just words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, seeing a true punk house for the first time, it was just mayhem,” Whitney recalls. “People lived under stairs, in the laundry room, in shacks out back, in vans in the driveway, it was just jam-packed. So many people and constant rotation of out-of-town travelers. I cannot overstate how in love I was with the scariness, craziness and feral wildness that existed in everyday life. Just complete wide-eyed wonder and awe that you could live this way, with no rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Sleeping-quarters-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Some examples of punk house sleeping quarters. Top row: (L) Nate and Hilary, couch nappers. Bottom row: "Nobunny's room" and Seth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some examples of punk house sleeping quarters. Top row: (L) Nate and Hilary, (R) couch nappers. Bottom row: (L) “Nobunny’s room” and (R) Seth. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@punkhouseoakland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As expected with a scene rooted in punk, music looms large across the pictures pouring in. Photos include \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMkdaj5hKo7/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backyard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMe37exhhkw/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">basement shows\u003c/a>, and a multitude of underground bands, local and otherwise. You can spot members of Green Day, AFI, Pinhead Gunpowder, Screw 32, Avail, Los Crudos, One Man Army, The PeeChees, Black Fork, Talk is Poison, The Criminals, El Dopa, Defiance, The Enemies, Behead the Prophet, The Shattered, Logical Nonsense and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it’s the more obscure bands that are the most fun to look back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895162 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1020x449.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-768x338.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1536x676.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-2048x901.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1920x845.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the account is just as likely to include photos of scene kids carving pumpkins, doing each other’s hair, chilling with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZrqMhk_z/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pets\u003c/a> (including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZmxYB83E/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baby raccoons\u003c/a>!), hanging \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMgEFvehc10/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the front porch\u003c/a>, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfW1hUhIiO/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backyard\u003c/a>, and also playing \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf5HrRBu6M/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dress up\u003c/a>. (There is \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf9x_eB_a7/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dress up\u003c/a>.) One photo recently emerged of a bunch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMn4XRxBc-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punks working in a call center\u003c/a>, all lined up in cubicles. (Whitney says “75% of all punks in the Bay” worked in telemarketing at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to tell the story of Oakland punk houses, however, without including the fact that this was a scene in which a lot of people died way too young. Whitney handles this simply but effectively, by including an ‘RIP’ next to anyone in the photos who’s no longer alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe this was punk everywhere,” Whitney explains, “but Oakland punk houses were, for the most part, made up of people that maybe had experienced some not great things in our early lives. We were coming together in some sort of sleep-away camp orphanage to create our own families, with our own rules and morals and infrastructures. And within those structures, there was a sense of being allowed to be what you were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in that scene,” she continues, “there just wasn’t an infrastructure for aging, or getting older in a tenable way that looked cool, where we could all stay together. No one knew how to do it. A lot of people partied too hard, and it was really intense. I think a lot of people didn’t know how to stay in the scene and not self-destruct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Whitney adds 'RIP' whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. Like (L-R): Heiko Schrepel, Shelly Skelley, Freud Reia and 'Dead Boy'.\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-768x356.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1536x713.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-2048x951.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1920x891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Whitney adds ‘RIP’ whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. Like (L-R): Heiko Schrepel, Shelly Skelley, Freud Reia and ‘Dead Boy’. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@punkhouseoakland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The heightened sense of mortality also influenced Whitney’s desire to start the account. “I wanted us not just to celebrate and tell stories at funerals,” she says. “I want the people I love and admire, and the people that touched my life in some way—I want them to know it. And I’m watching that spread now in just the raddest way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/punkhouseoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Punk House Oakland\u003c/a> can be found on Instagram and is accepting photo submissions on an ongoing basis. It has already inspired a spin-off account—\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/punkhousechicago/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@punkhousechicago\u003c/a>—and Elizabeth Whitney hopes it will inspire more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since, Whitney—who now owns and runs a pilates and yoga studio in Brooklyn—has received so many hundreds of photos to share, she’s currently struggling to clear the backlog of submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13895167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been truly joyous and incredible to witness,” she says. “To have other people fill in the gaps of my memory, to have us celebrate and tell stories about each other—it’s been really reparative and healing. And so many people have reached out saying the same thing—that they’ve found people they thought they lost, or they healed some old wounds, or reconnected in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also,” Whitney continues, “in this time where physicality or intimacy with a large group of people is a really scary thing, there is, like, a deep yearning ache inside me when I look at how close we were. I can’t imagine I’m the only one. [We were all] just kissing, and on top of each other, and laying around holding each other, and dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894328\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Three pairs of hugging friends. (L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were so deeply alive,” Whitney says. “In our suffering, in our love for each other, in the things we were creating, in the things we despised. Just so, so much passion. And basically just trying to live life like it was our last day on Earth, every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In true punk rock fashion, Whitney doesn’t edit any of the content she receives. She just throws up the photos and asks followers to tag the people they recognize. Together for the first time, these photos act as a time machine for those who were there. And for those who weren’t, the collection offers a look inside punk houses—a lifestyle almost impossible to completely convey with just words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, seeing a true punk house for the first time, it was just mayhem,” Whitney recalls. “People lived under stairs, in the laundry room, in shacks out back, in vans in the driveway, it was just jam-packed. So many people and constant rotation of out-of-town travelers. I cannot overstate how in love I was with the scariness, craziness and feral wildness that existed in everyday life. 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You can spot members of Green Day, AFI, Pinhead Gunpowder, Screw 32, Avail, Los Crudos, One Man Army, The PeeChees, Black Fork, Talk is Poison, The Criminals, El Dopa, Defiance, The Enemies, Behead the Prophet, The Shattered, Logical Nonsense and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it’s the more obscure bands that are the most fun to look back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895162 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1020x449.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-768x338.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1536x676.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-2048x901.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1920x845.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the account is just as likely to include photos of scene kids carving pumpkins, doing each other’s hair, chilling with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZrqMhk_z/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pets\u003c/a> (including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZmxYB83E/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baby raccoons\u003c/a>!), hanging \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMgEFvehc10/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the front porch\u003c/a>, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfW1hUhIiO/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backyard\u003c/a>, and also playing \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf5HrRBu6M/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dress up\u003c/a>. 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We were coming together in some sort of sleep-away camp orphanage to create our own families, with our own rules and morals and infrastructures. And within those structures, there was a sense of being allowed to be what you were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in that scene,” she continues, “there just wasn’t an infrastructure for aging, or getting older in a tenable way that looked cool, where we could all stay together. No one knew how to do it. A lot of people partied too hard, and it was really intense. I think a lot of people didn’t know how to stay in the scene and not self-destruct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Whitney adds 'RIP' whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. Like (L-R): Heiko Schrepel, Shelly Skelley, Freud Reia and 'Dead Boy'.\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-768x356.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1536x713.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-2048x951.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1920x891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Whitney adds ‘RIP’ whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. 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And I’m watching that spread now in just the raddest way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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