You Are Not Someone’s Metaphor
4 min readSep 7, 2021
By Austin B. Hahn
Social media is often used as a tool, serving a variety of purposes: to disseminate information, to humanize brands, to set trends, and — interestingly enough — to propagate social norms. While traditional media outlets still play a role in shaping our world, there’s no questioning the influence that independent content creators such as freelance writers, vloggers, and YouTubers have garnered…