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All We Care About Is Ass and Violence—This Week On VICE: Members Only

Two “bonkers” happenings from behind the paywall this week.

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It is not uncommon that something will make me think of Dizzee Rascal. Anything bumblebee yellow, the word “vexed.” Even telling someone I love them is a struggle without chopping up the “you-ou-ou” at the end. Reading behind the paywall of the VICE: Members Only area this week, I was reminded of the lyric: “All we care about is sex and violence,” a god-tier bar in what is otherwise the most aurally demented song released before the advent of Skrillex.

As social media becomes an increasingly bizarre, polarized place, so too does society. Titillated as we are by a rolling broadcast of people crying, screaming, and showing hole, gathering up your mates and hitting the Pizza Hut buffet just isn’t cutting it as an exciting Wednesday night anymore. One of the most flagrant examples of the timeline’s impact on reality is the transformation of Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens, from urban green space to doomscroll ultraviolence........

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