Making stuff > Doomscrolling: Rebel Yell Creative newsletter (Jan 30, 2026)
- Amy Lee Lillard
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
Making stuff > doomscrolling
It feels important somehow to keep scrolling right now. If we just consume all the information, all the terror and rage, we'll be better informed and better able to fight back. Right?
But … doomscrolling just leads to inertia and hopelessness. Worse, it's supporting big tech at a time that they're supporting the bad guys.
This short video is an excellent antidote. Even if we're exhausted and sad, we can make stuff to feel better (and act as part of the resistance). Here's ten things you can make, even if you're not sure what to make!
Relearn the internet
We've forgotten that there's a whole wide, weird, wild internet out there. As Offline Crush puts it:
“You can’t call it the ‘online world’ if you never leave your feed. If your entire internet life happens inside TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, or Twitter, you’re simply mall-walking, and malls are fine: predictable, climate-controlled, food courts and chain stores on every corner, but don’t mistake the mall for the city. The city is bigger, stranger, full of alleys, basements, and hidden doors. That’s the real internet, and you haven’t been there in a while.”
So Brooklyn offers a step-by-step map to rediscovering the internet. If you're feeling stuck, or apathetic, or all of the above, this could be just the treasure hunt to find something hopeful and inspiring.
Working 9 to 5
The newest Art of Resistance episode tells the story of how the smash hit “9 to 5” came to be: as an artistic representation of a labor movement.
Check out images, videos, and more from the episode!
MANIFESTOS: "I Want a President"
This is a preview of a new bonus series for paid subscribers of the Rebel Yell Creative newsletter. In this bonus series, we look at extra Art of Resistance stories: lesser-known banned books, hidden methods of censorship, the wild world of manifestos, and more powerful ways of using art as resistance.
This week: An early preview of the Art of Resistance podcast bonus series on Manifestos. Plus, early access to the new analog art kits, coming soon.
Use the word manifesto today, and our understanding may, at the least, verge on bad.
Think of what the news calls manifestos: the self-congratulatory jerkoffs documents from school shooters and women killers. Or think of what companies call manifestos. Brands get to play with a sort of faux rebellion by using the term manifesto to sell shit we don’t need.
But real manifestos: these are deeply revolutionary. Deeply anti-capitalist. Deeply feminist and intersectional.
And these are the manifestos we’re going to focus on in this bonus series.
In this episode: “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard.
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