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Molly Young.

Meet the Mollys! Social Network Sweeties Tumbl Upward

What makes a Molly?

Three well-known Internet writers–Molly Young, Molly Lambert, and Molly McAleer–share more than a name. The three have long attracted attention for their similar methods of self-promotion on the blogging platforms Tumblr and Twitter. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/31/11 4:13pm

The Internet

Molly McAleer

Meet the Mollys! Social Network Sweeties Tumbl Upwards

What makes a Molly?

Three well-known Internet writers–Molly Young, Molly Lambert, and Molly McAleer–share more than a name. The three have long attracted attention for their similar methods of self-promotion on the blogging platforms Tumblr and Twitter. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/31/11 4:12pm

The Internet

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No, she’s the o.g. Molly. Her meditations on her headaches would make a brilliant Tumblr post. Her jacket-photo—emaciated, grimacing, smoking—remains the best avatar we’ve ever seen.  Sample sentence: "Three, four, sometimes five times a month, I spend the day in bed with a migraine headache, insensible to the world around me."

Slideshow: The Mollys of Media

You don’t have to be named Molly to be a Molly, though it helps. Mollies Lambert, Young and McAleer got attention not merely for their Ringwaldian monikers but for their coyly insightful writing about pop culture, their minute observations, and the manner in which they promoted themselves via social media. They’re not the only Read More

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