Life in Fifteen Gigabytes

Digital hoarding is presented as a product of political economy rather than only sentiment, and the essay suggests the hacker class should include those who hoard information as well as those who produce it. Drawing on McKenzie Wark's concept of the vectoralist class, the essay ties the ability to sell stored data to ownership of information. The essay also cites the 2021 Black TikTok creators' strike, in which the BBC reported Addison Rae made nearly $5m from TikTok in 2020, while Jalaiah Harmon, creator of the "Renegade" dance, estimated she earned $38,000 that year.