I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.

Margolis contrasts two kinds of images—conventional, socially sanctioned “wedding pictures” and sexualized “bikini pictures”—to underline how internet attention is driven less by propriety than by curiosity and celebrity. The line also works as a commentary on early web culture, where personal websites and downloadable images helped create a new economy of visibility: even content framed as wholesome or intimate could be consumed at scale, detached from its original meaning. Implicitly, she points to the collapse of boundaries between private milestones and public entertainment, and to the way an audience’s appetite for access to a public figure can make disparate images function similarly as collectible digital commodities.