Is Our Addiction to Internet Fame a Cry to God?”

Brittany Talissa King
9 min readMar 14, 2023

We’ve heard the saying — “The grass is always greener on the other side.”

It’s often a benign line from our favorite rom-coms, or 90’s sitcom. But this quote actually derived from a first century poet, Ovid, who once said, “The harvest is always richer in another man’s field.” In other words, the strive to attain what we believe we’re missing is literally millennia old. But here’s…

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Brittany Talissa King

Writer and journalist. I explore race and social issues through history and pop-culture. @b.talissa IG. @KingTalissa Twitter. Journalism MA — NYU.