Metaverse Stripping and Quiet Quitting Gurus
Metaverse Stripping and Quiet Quitting Gurus
"the internet's favorite song right now"
YouTube is hopping on the handle bandwagon (meanwhile, Signal is hopping on the Stories bandwagon); the GIF, which has been diagnosed as “cringe,” is on its deathbed; metaverse stripping is being pushed as a new lucrative side hustle on TikTok (but it’s a low-key NFT scam); and Steve Lacy redefines the rock star for Gen Z.
THE GURUS WHO SAY THEY CAN MAKE QUIET QUITTING DISAPPEAR—FOR $15,000 A DAY, wsj
Oh, boy.
Appealing to executives who are confounded by their greenest employees, Adam Owens left a steady human-resources job and started his own consulting operation this year. He bills himself as an unconventional alternative to competitors with Ivy League M.B.A.s and decades of experience. If you’re a Boomer or Gen Xer trying to figure out Gen Zers, he says, hire someone like him, a former philosophy major who dropped out of college in the aughts and built a career without the typical credentials.
LIL YACHTY’S “POLAND” IS THE INTERNET’S FAVORITE SONG RIGHT NOW, highsnobiety
The song — which is currently only available on SoundCloud, where it has over 4.2 million plays, but is hitting Spotify tonight — has gone wildly viral on Twitter and TikTok in the last few days.
WHY EVERYONE IS OBSESSED WITH NETFLIX’S JUMPY HORROR, THE MIDNIGHT CLUB, i-d
Another thing that’s gone wildly viral: On Friday, just in time for spooky szn, Netflix launched its latest highly bingeable and allegedly terrifying TV series. The Midnight Club, from the makers of The Haunting of Hill House, “broke the world record for the most jump scares in TV history.” According to Netflix, it’s already number five on the platform’s top TV shows worldwide, and is 3rd in the US and UK.
‘TED LASSO’ FICTIONAL DATING APP BANTR COMES TO LIFE ON BUMBLE
Kinda brilliant: Come Thursday, Bumble users can experience Bantr, the fictitious dating app featured on “Ted Lasso.”
The Bantr Live experience will let two users, randomly paired together, DM for three minutes. At that point, each person will be asked if they would like to continue the conversation. If both Bumblers choose to match, their chat will live in their Date Mode queue and their profiles will then be available to view.
CAN BIDEN CONVINCE YOUNG VOTERS TO SAVE HIS PARTY IN THE MIDTERMS?, nymag
There are only so many of these Gen Z-centric will-they-or-won’t-they-save-the-Dems articles I can read leading up to the midterms (it’s all feeling a bit too close to November 2020 for me!), but this one is a good one.
ROBLOX AND DISCORD SUED OVER GIRL’S SEXUAL, FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION, bloomberg
“These men sexually and financially exploited her…They also introduced her to the social media platforms Instagram and Snapchat, to which she became addicted.”
One last thought:
