Performative Knowledge and Attention-Span Panic
monday long read
Welcome back to After School Monday Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. 🫶
In today’s letter:
Gen Z’s favorite horror movie
Knowledgemaxxing meets taste fatigue
The “Luddite boyfriend” green flag
30,000 people applied for Tinder’s internship, of which there were 27 spots
AI companions are killing sugar babies (well, not literally)
Dating is a “rich person’s game now”
Gen Z is paying $900 a year for a credit card
HRV is the new longevity obsession
The supposed death of calorie counting
The baseball tee revival
It’s going to be bloomer short summer
Luxury houses bet on body mists
Crown Affair’s Series C and the “skinification of hair”
And so much more, plus everything I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:
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Gen Z’s favorite horror movie is having a 9-5
For the past few weeks, Gen Zers have been sharing their “top 5 horror movies,” though the accompanying list isn’t actually scary movie titles but rather a catalog of the humiliations and inconveniences of everyday life, usually set to Katy Perry’s “The One Who Got Away.”
I watched hundreds of these over the weekend and made note of some recurring trends: