If a Millennial Is Born and No One Records It on Their Phone, Do They Really Exist?

The punishing rules of life in the digital commons.

Depending on whom you ask, Catherine Middleton—the Princess of Wales and wife of the next King of England—is currently either fine, dead, in a coma, on the run, divorced, recovering from an abortion (to conceal an adulterous conception), or perhaps never existed at all.

All of these theories have made for depressing yet oddly addictive social media nois…