
chronically online solidaritysatirical self awarenessdigital dependency humormillennial angst
Young women devastated they're too old to be saved from their own phones
The Spectator's Hilda Bombay documents the exact moment she and her friends experienced whiplash upon learning that Keir Starmer's social media crackdown only protects children, leaving them—sad, addicted twenty-somethings—to their own devices. It's satirical self-flagellation from someone fully aware she needs an intervention but too chronically online to accept salvation on technicality grounds. Peak millennial energy: begging the government to parent you harder.