Self-Care — A Memetic Analysis

TL;DR — A visual analysis of self-care as an internet meme cluster: anxiety, performance, and the bath-bomb manifesto.

A slide-format memetic analysis of ‘self-care’ as it circulated in 2019 — anxiety, depression and sadness; performative social sharing; perceived lives vs known reality; and a section headed the Bathbomb Manifesto.

The argument is that self-care discourse performs two contradictory jobs at once: genuine coping and social display, with the display gradually eating the coping.

A cultural-analysis artifact in the native form of its subject.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

12 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.