[ratherlongname]

There's lots of communities on the internet. People who do DIY home improvements, gamers, programmers and countless more. Similarly there are people who want to study or be productive. Of course their network spans across platforms, just like any other passion people may have. Giving this phenomena a specific name - "Study Web" makes it seem like it's something well established or institutionalized. Which is just not true. The subtitle of the article "Exploring Gen Z’s Ambitious and Anxiety-Fuelled Pursuit of Straight A’s Across YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter" does a much better job of describing the article for what it is. What's next? DIY Web, Music Web, Cat Pictures Web.

[pjc50]

> "Study Web" makes it seem like it's something well established or institutionalized. Which is just not true

Does it? I'm not sure what institutions I'd expect to see for the "X web" for any X. Decentralised, innit.

> DIY Web, Music Web, Cat Pictures Web

A very long time ago there were "webrings" for that. Nowadays there's definitely cute names for subcommunities on platforms; "witchtok" and "weird twitter" come to mind, but "gamer youtuber" (in the style of pewdiepie) was practically synonymous with "youtuber" at one point.