Super Streams and Sex Recessions
Super Streams and Sex Recessions
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3 DAYS. 68 KIDS. SNAPSHOTS OF SUMMER ON CONEY ISLAND., nyt
A delightful portfolio of more than 50 kids on the Coney boardwalk. Completely wholesome, but also quite enlightening! “What would you change about the world? The way people see kids, especially queer and trans kids and kids of color.”
WASHINGTON POST'S NEW SLATE OF COLUMNISTS WILL REEL IN ITS YOUNGER AUDIENCES, adweek
WaPo has had some pretty notable Gen Z wins, between their wildly successful TikTok and reporter Taylor Lorenz’s unmatched digital culture coverage, so this is an interesting move. New contributors include mental health professional Sahaj Kaur Kohli, TikTok content creator Jules Terpak, author and columnist Damon Young and former Teen Vogue editor in chief Elaine Welteroth. Good luck to ‘em.
HOW INSTAGRAM INFLUENCERS BECOME ENTERPRISES, AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, fastco
“I feel like if they don’t seriously change their algorithms back to what they were, Instagram is going to become obsolete, like Facebook.”
META IS REPORTEDLY PAYING CREATORS UP TO $3,000 TO TEST A NEW LIVE STREAMING PLATFORM, tubefilter
The tech giant is reportedly working with creators to test Super, a live streaming platform that has been in the works for at least two years. The proposed content hub would offer live streaming content, with some outlets describing it as a potential competitor for Twitch.
CAN HOLLYWOOD FIGURE OUT GEN Z?, latimes
It seems so! Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, based on a story by viral “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian, is “a biting satire on class and privilege, all mediated by new technology, the language of progressive politics and youth culture, and Gen Z identity itself.”
THIS IS WHAT THE SEX LIVES OF GEN Z-ERS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE, britishvogue
One reporter talked to 75 young people about their intimacy, and it was pretty revealing. “When it came to the idea of a sex drought,” she writes, they “were mostly baffled. Only two people I spoke to felt like they weren’t getting enough sex, and two were currently celibate out of personal choice – the others drily noting it was relationships that were in short supply.” My favorite quote from the piece:
“The concept of the ‘puriteen’ is the most insane and perverted moral panic ever. Hundreds of 35-year-olds on the internet freaking out because they think teenagers are insufficiently horny.”
One last thought:
