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The Lament of the Online Editor

Graphic by Ava Lyon-Sereno

With a Social Media Editor, Publisher, and many other similar-sounding roles at The Fed, people often wonder what I do. 

I like to consider myself a popular loner. I don’t choose what articles get published or work on print issue designs. 

No, I don’t concern myself with those kinds of normie activities.

I manage The Fed’s website… by the way, does anyone even go on columbiafederalist.com? It’s laggy from 10+ years of articles and gets an average of around 100 views per month, so it’s a really underground website that only cool, patient folks enjoy scrolling through. It takes me a good seven minutes to publish an article because the website needs to pull up all the images and staff names published in the last decade.

The Feditors-in-Chief can’t figure out tech, so I’m the person they consult. 

I can’t even code.

I don’t even know how I got this job. I told last year’s Feditors that I had experience in publishing content online, but I didn’t specify that I used to post stories on Wattpad, so I’m running The Fed’s website like a slow burn fanfiction series. 

Anyway… in terms of the print issue, there’s not a lot going on on my end. I’m just really nonchalant. Maybe you can like, I don’t know, join Fed Tech or… smirks… visit columbiafederalist.com to look at the nice articles posted there.