Camp Snap and Big Jort

“i mean, the world is going to end anyway. might as well aspire!”

Meet Trim, the new 19-year-old “princess of rap”; SNL breakout Ben Marshall is Cosmopolitan’s latest “centerfold”; American Eagle is launching a back-to-school capsule with soccer star Lamine Yamal; Olivia Rodrigo is reportedly dating a guy with a “real job”; and The Fader asked 16 New York City teens what their song of the summer is, and only four named 2026 tracks.

SHE’S TYPE A. GEN Z. AND ENTERING A BRUTAL LABOR MARKET., thecut
Only 20% of the 40 young women surveyed — all of whom self-identified as “ambitious” — by The Cut have landed a job, while 34% are actively searching, 17% are considering more school, 12% are staying flexible, and 7% are “uncertain and spiraling.” Kiaira Wheeler, 23, a Delaware State grad who interned at ESPN+, had dreamed up a decade-long path to becoming “the Gen-Z Shonda Rhimes” but has since taken a part-time executive-assistant job as a last resort. “I had interviews every month and still did not receive a single callback. My sadness has slowly turned into anger, because I started questioning what the point of going to college was if I couldn’t even land a job in my field,” she said. Even so, most of the women see chasing their goals as a kind of resistance, even if stable careers, homeownership, and marriage come much later than they did for their parents, or not at all. As Ana B., set to graduate next summer, put it, “I mean, the world is going to end anyway. Might as well aspire!”

A TEEN REPORTER SEARCHED FOR HIS COMMUNITY IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. ADULTS FREAKED OUT, wired
For a journalism class assignment, Redwood High senior Ben Mueller spent five hours combing the DOJ’s Epstein Library portal for links to his community. His carousel, “Which Marin towns were mentioned in the Epstein files?”, drew more than 4,000 likes and comments like “high schoolers doing better reporting than national news” on the Instagram feed of the Redwood Bark, his school’s student-run publication that “happens to be one of the most award-winning high school newspapers in the United States.” “I didn’t really think I was doing groundbreaking journalism,” Mueller said. “I was just like, this is another piece of homework that I have to do today…” One of the people named threatened to sue the district, the superintendent demanded a redaction, the students lawyered up, the post is still live, and my faith in the future of journalism has been briefly restored.

THE 2000S CALLED. THEY WANT THEIR DIGITAL CAMERA BACK, npr
Camp Snap, a company that started selling screen-free point-and-shoots for kids at phone-banning summer camps, has been blindsided by adult demand. “All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a lot of Gen Z, millennial demographic started buying them,” says president Trevor George. Camp Snap has seen sales more than double in the past year, and they’re not alone: Canon told NPR that PowerShot sales jumped nearly sevenfold from 2022 to 2025. Jaden Williams, 16, requested a digicam for his birthday after picking one up in yearbook class, using it at parties instead of his phone for “a more, like, warm vibe.” Katie Coyne, 24, likes “the brightness and also the crispness of the photo, but having that blur and grain somehow added in as well.”

THE ZYN-IFICATION OF EVERYTHING, businessinsider
The pouch has become one of the trendiest delivery mechanisms in consumer products, with entrepreneurs stuffing the little sachets with caffeine, CBD, THC, melatonin, and teeth-whitening ingredients. Eric Drymer’s Ultra Pouches, which come in both sleep and focus versions, market themselves as if nicotine and Adderall “had a baby,” and because they’re classified as supplements, they don’t need FDA approval. A dentist said pouches are “potentially quite an insult to the lining of the mouth” when held in 12-18 hours a day, but that “people are willing to pay to be guinea pigs with this stuff.” If you’re an investor, might I suggest funneling your money into oral health? (This is not accredited financial advice.)

ATTACK OF THE JORTS: GIANT DENIM SHORTS HAVE TAKEN OVER NEW YORK CITY, gothamist
Last weekend, my husband and I walked from Dumbo to the tippy-top of Greenpoint, and on that 2-hour, 5-mile walk, we saw hundreds, maybe thousands of zillennials in baggy jean shorts, so it was validating to see Gothamist — which hit the street and photographed dozens of people in theirs — declare 2026 “Peak Big Jort.” Shaquil Stewart, 25, of Brooklyn, bought his on Depop. “Today is actually my second or third time wearing them and I’m feeling pretty confident,” he said. “I think I found my speed.” River Lyons, 22, has amassed a dozen used pairs on eBay; Keri Ahearn, 26, found her vintage Girbaud jorts on Poshmark. If we really have hit peak, per my dispatch a couple weeks back about the Adam Sandler-ification of fashion, then what’s next? Stylist Ian Bradley said to look to queer men, who wore skinny jeans, then straight-legs, then 4-inch inseams before straight guys caught on.

*As a millennial who simply cannot — nor wants to! — pull off giant denim shorts, I’m struggling with what to wear this summer and am taking suggestions from my fellow irrelevants.

One last thought:

@amytimmerman1What are my options here because apparently I can’t be hot to men, and wear jorts 😭🫦 #jorts#dating#summer

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