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From the depth of the gooncave: on the grotesque and the cute in Kara Chin and Romain Sarrot’s work:
Pity Petty is the evocative title of Hatch Gallery’s exhibition, a duo show featuring works by Kara Chin and Romain Sarrot that draw on the dark and twisted subculture of gooning. In a viral article published in the November 2025 issue of Harper’s Magazine, writer Daniel Kolitz aptly summarizes this strange contemporary phenomenon: a “new kind of masturbation at the heart of an internet-based, pornography-obsessed, Gen Z–dominated subculture.” Leaning into participant observation, the author himself dabbled in gooning (but only for research purposes). It allowed him to analyze this corner of the internet’s underbelly and address its strangely communal aspect.
One could say that gooners who masturbate together stay together. Virtually, Discord streams are gooning’s communal place par excellence. But gooning can also be practiced in a physical, and often solitary, space: dark bedrooms,…
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From the depth of the gooncave: on the grotesque and the cute in Kara Chin and Romain Sarrot’s work:
Pity Petty is the evocative title of Hatch Gallery’s exhibition, a duo show featuring works by Kara Chin and Romain Sarrot that draw on the dark and twisted subculture of gooning. In a viral article published in the November 2025 issue of Harper’s Magazine, writer Daniel Kolitz aptly summarizes this strange contemporary phenomenon: a “new kind of masturbation at the heart of an internet-based, pornography-obsessed, Gen Z–dominated subculture.” Leaning into participant observation, the author himself dabbled in gooning (but only for research purposes). It allowed him to analyze this corner of the internet’s underbelly and address its strangely communal aspect.
One could say that gooners who masturbate together stay together. Virtually, Discord streams are gooning’s communal place par excellence. But gooning can also be practiced in a physical, and often solitary, space: dark bedrooms,…
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