Khaby Lame — the most-followed person on TikTok — is coming to America with Tubi; Tyla was named Best New Artist at the BET Awards; it’s OK to like Camila Cabello’s new album; and Glastonbury style sure isn’t what it used to be!
GEN ALPHA’S ‘SEPHORA KIDS’ TREND HAS REACHED A FEVER PITCH, FORCING SUMMER CAMPS TO BAN SKINCARE ITEMS, fortune
A number of ritzy summer camps have asked campers and their families to avoid bringing makeup and face creams to camp. “While nail polish and sheet masks in limited quantities can be a fun activity sprinkled into downtime at camp,” a letter to parents from one camp said, “we want to avoid ‘playing with skincare and cosmetics’ becoming an activity.” It’s not really that much different than arts and crafts, is it?
GEN Z, MILLENNIALS' SPENDING HABITS FUEL DEPENDENCE ON 'BANK OF MOM AND DAD’, axios
According to the latest Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll, one-third of millennials and over 60% of Gen Z consumers say they rely on their parents for at least some financial support. (Millennials, as a reminder, are between the ages of 28 and 43, while Gen Z is 12 to 27.) About 40% of those in the millennial and Gen Z cohorts who say they are financially squeezed primarily attribute it to "excessive spending on non-essentials."
HOW DRAGONS, MAGIC AND STEAMY SEX TOOK OVER THE BOOK WORLD, wsj
Striking a chord with generations of readers who grew up on series like “Harry Potter” and “The Hunger Games,” romantasy — a mix of fantasy and romance — is dominating the bestseller charts, “delivering blockbuster sales in an industry that’s in a fight for readers’ attention.” “It’s a feeling of being in a different world,” said Julia Johnson, a 25-year-old New Yorker who works in communications for a legal nonprofit. Women want to escape!
HAVE PRIVATE EQUITY'S 'HUNGER GAMES' RECRUITING TACTICS GONE TOO FAR?, businessinsider
Private equity firms, including Apollo, KKR, and Thoma Bravo, have started recruiting for entry-level associate jobs earlier than ever, causing a frenzy among young investment banking analysts who haven't even started their training yet. "There's a sickness in the private-equity industry," said a former junior banker. "I mean, it's ridiculous. They haven't even spent one day on the desk. They haven't even started training yet. They get sucked into this recruiting cycle that just becomes more and more insane every year."
WHITE HOUSE WILL HOST CREATOR ECONOMY SUMMIT IN AUGUST, wapo
Announced the day after the debate, an invite-only White House Creator Economy Conference will give creators a chance to discuss their priorities with senior administration officials, covering subjects including artificial intelligence, privacy, and mental health, Taylor Lorenz reports. But who will actually accept the White House’s invitation is a larger question…
Ariana Jasmine Afshar, a Gen Z creator based on Oakland, Calif., with more than 250,000 followers on TikTok who posts about news and politics, said that she would decline if invited. “As a Muslim and Middle Eastern creator I would much rather he address issues like Palestine rather than host dumb creator events,” she said.
THE THUMBS UP EMOJI IS THE SYMBOL OF THE SEASON OF AMBIVALENCE, gq
While the broken link has emerged as the hot new emoji, the humble thumbs up — “shorthand for the public mood of meh,” a sort of “graphic equivalent of a big, heavy shrug, the sort we’ve become well acquainted with in 2024” — conveys “the ‘just fine’ of everything right now.”
One last thought:
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Good for overnight camps! Just like kids get a break from their screens, they can get a break from skincare routines that are unnecessary (and avoids yet another way to make kids feel bad if they don’t have the serum du jour).