Felicia Day’s writing reads like a chat log. She wanders through stories, using all caps and italics. She drops tangentially relevant memes onto the page. The name of her autobiography, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), is as cumbersome as that of an emo band. But those things work on the internet and—as she will explain at length—Felicia Day is mostly about the internet.
Like other autobiographies, YNWI(A) focuses heavily on Day’s childhood. Day thinks that she “was raised incredibly weird,” and a huge portion of her book focuses on her mother’s inconsistent attempts at homeschooling (and an over-reliance on community college art classes for educational structure). As Day puts it, “My mom basically trained me to become a geisha”…