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after school weekend edition

Hi friends! Welcome back to After School ✨weekend edition✨, an extra long and extra opinionated youth culture digest for paid subscribers.

I’m writing to you from Missouri, still. As I click-clack on the keyboard, I can hear a rooster “cock-a-doodle-doo-ing” in the background. Tonight, those sounds will be replaced by bull riding and barrel racing happening across the road, and as soon as I hit send on this, I’m heading to main street to watch the county fair parade. Back to reality next week, but not before I get my hands on some Tastee Freez (iykyk). So let’s get to it!

Today, we're talking about:

• Fashion’s new (old) favorite sneaker

• The digital academic library making merch that’s harder to come by than Supreme

• The $9 skincare potion that’s causing Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit to collectively melt down

• The “dress brand of the year,” according to Vogue

• The status A/C unit (yes, really)

• The TikTok trend that must be stopped (if your answer is, “um, all of them?” well, you’re not wrong)

• The trendiest vacation (not Greece!)

• A very good collab, and a very b*tsh*t one

Plus, everything I’m buying, reading, and loving…and so much (like, 2,140 words much) more.

Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew

somebody should make an app where people can share pictures with their friends and family