Crypto Moratoriums and Cheap Dates
Crypto Moratoriums and Cheap Dates
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Zendaya was Giphy’s Top GIF of 2022; Coach reissues Y2K favorite demi bag; is New York’s crypto-mining moratorium the start of a trend?; and The 1975 worked on an early version of Taylor Swift’s Midnights (wild to me that 2022 is finally the year of The 1975, a band I’ve loved since 2013!).
FORBES 30 UNDER 30 LIST 2022, forbes
Every year, the business publication selects more than 600 “of the brightest young entrepreneurs, leaders, and stars” — 600!!! — many of whom seem to have scammed their way onto the list (I mean, Caroline Ellison is on this year’s list, forgodssake). But there were a few youngens I was excited to see: Chef Edouard Massih, who owns Greenpoint’s delightful Edy's Grocer; Topicals’ amazing founder Olamide Olowe, who has accomplished so, so much at just 25; Miri Buckland of The Landing, one of my favorite Gen Z-founded companies in recent memory; and Emma Bates of Diem, a startup I’ve been eagerly following over the last few months.
MIU MIU MINISKIRT, JW ANDERSON PIGEON CLUTCH AND BIRKENSTOCK BOSTON CLOGS AMONG HOTTEST ITEMS IN 2022, wwd
Miu Miu was the brand of the year, with searches for Prada’s sister label increasing 49% year-on-year, driven mostly by the viral ballet flats and micro miniskirt. The Birkenstock Boston clog is the hottest shoe of the year, with searches jumping 593% in the first six months of 2022. As for the year’s “it” bag, Prada’s Re-nylon Re-edition 2000 mini bag saw a 131% uptick in searches, and the hashtag #pradanylonbag generated more than 4.2 million views.
SOCIAL MEDIA IS A WRECK. PROTESTERS ARE RISING ABOVE IT., bloomberg
In both China and Iran, Gen Z protesters who grew up on social media are doing what comes naturally to them and finding creative ways to get around censors — and the censors are struggling to keep up.
BEING A CHEAP DATE IS SUDDENLY A MAJOR PLUS, wsj
Eesh: “The text read, ‘Hey bb what’s your Venmo I need that dollar bad,’ ending with a worried-looking emoji.” This part made me laugh…
Rachel Horowitz, who dates men and women, usually splits the bill or picks up the tab when she’s on a date with another woman. But when she’s meeting up with a man for the first time, she believes it’s polite for him to offer to pay. “I’m a modern woman, I’m a feminist, but I believe at least the first date,” the 24-year-old Chicago entertainment marketer says.
“BUY NOW, PAY LATER” IS APPEALING TO GEN Z—AND DANGEROUS, slate
You know I’ve been shaking my fists about BNPLs for, what, years? But this piece underscores just how widely college students and 20-somethings believe buy now, pay later” apps like Klarna are a safer alternative to credit cards; they’re particularly “attractive to young consumers who may not have credit history, many of whom graduated in the pandemic and in this economic downturn.”
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