The social media algorithm has left me behind. I’m unc and I’m chopped – and that’s OK

‘Instead of one internet, there are endless overlapping internet microcultures, each with their own language evolving independently.’ Photograph: NBC

I’ve just reached an important adult milestone. Getting married? No. Having a baby? No. Buying a house? Don’t be ridiculous, I’m a writer in Australia. This milestone was small but important: I finally had to Google a gen Z slang term.

I know this may be something many of you have passed already, along with your houses and babies, but I am someone who has been online for a long time. It’s been necessary for my career but it’s also my favourite hobby: going on the internet.