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Author: Tim Spencer
Tim Spencer is a visual culture analyst with the London-based marketing consultancy Truth. His 2011 "Millennium Fakeout" essay remains one of HiLobrow's most popular posts ever.
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Millennium Fakeout
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That Christmas, I discovered how physically painful it is to fake joy.
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