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Turning into a complete mess: It's not just you, the Internet has gotten really bad. Here's why, and here's how we can get rid of the mess. We live in an era of chaos, an era in which the services that matter to us, and on which we depend, are reduced to piles of nonsense. It's frustrating, disheartening, and even terrifying. Transformation into Chaos identifies the problem and suggests a solution. When Corey Doctorow coined the term becoming a hot mess, he wasn't just looking for a funnier way to say "things are getting worse." Rather, he was providing an accurate diagnosis of the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better). Once-wonderful Internet platforms have made almost magical promises to their users and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users became attached to them, these platforms turned on them to please their corporate clients. The platforms then resorted to exploiting their business customers to recover all the value for themselves. In the end, these platforms die. Doctoroff's argument resonated widely. Once named, it became clear that stereotyping is so ubiquitous that the American Dialect Society chose it as its 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. Here, now, in Stereotyping, Doctoroff moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitable destiny toward stereotyping. It shows us the specific decisions that got us here, who made them, and most importantly, how they can be reversed.