Yeesh. Having run out of technology to hold moral panics about, The Atlantic now reverts to just plain puritanism, sounding very much like Dwight Macdonald condemning "masscult" and entertainment. I watched Megan Garber on Morning Joe touting this specimen of #MoralPanic, #ThirdPersonEffect, and snobbery.
I address this in my upcoming book (snippet from The Gutenberg Parenthesis below....)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/tv-politics-entertainment-metaverse/672773/