Altered Narrative: Why We Built This

Our generation has access to more information than any generation before us

Why do we feel less informed, less conected

Every day there’s another headline

Trend

Viral moment

Social media moves fast

By the time we figure out what the fuck is going on

The next thing is shoved down our throats

We’re not learning anything

Just reacting

Algorithms decide what we see

Big media companies decide what culture looks like

People actually living in the culture

Rarely shape the conversation

That’s the gap Altered Narrative serves to fill

We needed a place where we could stay informed

About what’s happening in the world

Without having to live on social media

A place where culture gets explained

Instead of thrown

Fuck endless feeds

We need something better

Something we can close and open

Our information handed to us

At our own will

Altered Narrative is built around two things

Every week we publish blog posts

That break down current events

Pop culture

Art

Media

Politics

Music

Current events

The goal is

Help us understand what’s going on

Why people give a fuck about what

Once a month

We will print a magazine

The magazine goes deeper

Interviews with artists and creators

Featured artwork

Cultural commentary

Events

Games and word searches

This platform exists

Because we believe something important

Those living the culture should be

Curating the culture

Not algorithms

Not legacy media companies

Trying to analyze in big offices what's cool

Not what the internet decides

To shmack us with that day

The people living the culture

Should be the ones shaping it

We believe people need to be informed

They just don’t need to feel overwhelmed

Or manipulated while doing it

We need context not more content

We need to discover new artists

We need to understand what’s happening

In the world

We need to feel like we’re ahead

Of the conversation

Instead of catching up to it

Without the scroll

That’s the goal

Altered Narrative is

Going to build

The kind of platform

We wish existed

Something interesting

Something creative

Something worth

Spending time with

If you like staying informed

Discovering new artists

Thinking about culture

And being a little more ahead

Of the curve

Please do, enjoy Altered Narrative.