In December, Australia became the first country in the world to enact a social media ban for kids under 16. As the children of Oz wept and gnashed their teeth (I presume), Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged them to "start a new sport, learn a new instrument, or read that book that has been sitting there on your shelf for some time.

In 2015, August Lamm dropped out of Wesleyan University and moved to Berlin to learn how to draw and give her dream of being a freelance artist a serious go.