Category: Opinion
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Netflix Eats Its Competitor: Welcome Back to Cable, But Somehow Worse
If there’s one thing the nearly $83 billion dollar proposed Netflix acquisition makes painfully clear, it’s that antitrust laws were invented for moments like this. And yet here we are, collectively shrugging while the world’s largest streaming platform swallows one of its biggest competitors like it’s an afternoon snack, consolidating…
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Single, Centered, and Unbothered: The Anti-Situationship Mindset
There’s a strange tension in modern singlehood. You’re either expected to broadcast your independence with the volume of an NFL halftime show, or quietly nurse the assumption that you’re secretly yearning for a plus-one. In between those two extremes sits the rest of us…people who are genuinely fine, building lives…
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday & the Chaos of Overconsumption: Why “On Sale” Doesn’t Mean You Need It
Another Black Friday, another Cyber Monday, another week of emails screaming “LAST CHANCE!” like the world will implode if you don’t buy a fourth air fryer. The internet turns into a digital Hunger Games arena, and suddenly we’re adding things to our carts we didn’t even know existed 48 hours ago. Hyper-consumerism…
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Why Faking “Lived-In” Luxury Is Weird
The new trend is artificially distressing designer bags to look “authentic.” Let’s talk about why that’s bizarre, why real style comes from actually living.
The Girl in Gucci Glasses 