Category: Opinion

• Fashion & Style Opinion

  Everyone Looks the Same and They Hate You for Not Playing Along

  A sharp, honest take on fashion conformity, athleisure culture, and why people mock individuality. An Italian raised perspective on style, confidence, and why you should stop waiting for a special occasion and wear the damn clothes now.

  January 5, 2026
• Opinion

  On Losing Sprinkles and Why It Feels Like the End of an Era

  Pour one out or lick the frosting knife for Sprinkles Cupcakes. The OG designer cupcake empire. The place that made paying $5 for a tiny cake feel aspirational instead of unhinged. Closed. Finito. Crumbs on the counter. Employees jobless and without a severance. And yes, businesses close all the time.…

  January 4, 2026
• Advertising & Marketing Opinion

  Why We’re Obsessed With “Authenticity” but Still Bow to the Algorithm

  We all swear we want authenticity.We want the messy bathroom counter, the half-finished thought, the person who talks like a human and not a billboard. We want real stories, real emotions, real people…preferably filmed in terrible lighting with a cracked iPhone. And yet… the minute we open our apps?We fall right into…

  December 31, 2025
• Opinion

  Performative Living and the Need to Be Seen

  We don’t just live anymore. We narrate. For whatever reason, it seems as if growth doesn’t really quietly happen anymore. Instead, our need for persistent validation is the reason it gets posted, liked, saved. Boundaries are captions, while reinvention comes with a lengthy explanation and a peanut gallery comment section.…

  December 30, 2025
• Opinion

  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…

  December 7, 2025
• Opinion Relationships

  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…

  December 6, 2025