Summerween and Grokkers

after school monday long (4,770 words!) read

Welcome back to After School Monday Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. 🫶

In today’s letter:

• Hot girls summer? More like crash out summer

• The power of AI manifestation

• What everyone wore at Lollapalooza

• The skater shoe making a comeback

• The “go-see” outfit trend

• The collab sorority girls will sell out

• “Carolyn Bessette blonde”

• “Read dating” is coming for Tinder

• The “performative man” final boss

• “Tired girl” makeup is the new “clean girl” makeup

• The girls are turning on “woo woo” deodorant

• Fitness culture is “making us sad and boring”

• And the drink of the summer is a colostrum maca smoothie

And so much more, plus everything I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:

@hoped.supersecreti was born in the wrong generation #2000s #hollister #fyp #xyzbca #teenager

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For Gen Z, “it’s the summer of the crash out,” Glamour declared in a headline on Thursday, a sentiment that’s been reflected on my FYP for weeks: