{"id":4554,"date":"2019-04-17T22:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T22:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/instagram-memers-are-unionizing-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T22:47:53","slug":"instagram-memers-are-unionizing-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/instagram-memers-are-unionizing-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Memers Are Unionizing – The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Worth keeping an eye on…<\/p>\n

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Instagram memers have had enough.<\/p>\n

They generate the engagement that helps keep Instagram growing\u2014but, they argue, the multibillion-dollar platform doesn\u2019t pay them for their work, or give them any control. So they\u2019re fighting back. And before you write off <\/span>IG Meme Union Local 69-420<\/a> <\/span>as a joke, the organizers of the collective would like you to know that they are very serious.<\/p>\n

\u201cSolidarity actions with memers. Memers of the world unite,\u201d the <\/span>Instagram page<\/a> <\/span>for the union reads, encouraging followers to \u201cseize the memes of production.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/04\/instagram-memers-are-unionizing\/587308\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worth keeping an eye on… Instagram memers have had enough. They generate the engagement that helps keep Instagram growing\u2014but, they argue, the multibillion-dollar platform doesn\u2019t pay them for their work, or give them any control. So they\u2019re fighting back. And before you write off IG Meme Union Local 69-420 as a joke, the organizers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}