The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?

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From Comment Sections to Dichoptic VR: Building Amblyotube for Kids Who Need a Better View I first saw the article on a Tuesday morning, coffee cooling on the desk, the glow of the monitor the only light in the room. TechCrunch had written about middle‑schoolers turning NPR’s Spotify comment threads into a secret clubhouse — kids swapping memes, inside jokes, and half‑formed theories in a margin nobody else looked at. Zero onboarding, zero identity checks, just a peripheral UI element they claimed as their own. It struck me because I’d spent the last year staring at a different margin: the spl

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