TikTok Multiverse and Starface Genius
TikTok Multiverse and Starface Genius
so, uh, nepo babies, huh?
Billie Eilish hosted a star-studded 21st birthday bash; Revel, an NFT platform billing itself as Instagram meets Robinhood, raised $7.8 million; and now we can finally move on from the whole nepo baby thing, right?
JULIE SCHOTT IS IN TOUCH WITH HER INNER TEEN, bustle
A really excellent profile of the queen of Starface, the zit sticker brand that has “sold more than 77 million yellow Hydro-Stars, which translates to 49 Hydro-Stars sold every minute in the last three years” and counts Justin Bieber and Florence Pugh among fans. (Julie, is, of course, the brains behind Julie, too.)
THE 23-YEAR-OLD QUEEN OF REAL-ESTATE TIKTOK, curbed
Speaking of royalty, Lizzie Prigozhina is the 23-year-old queen of New York real-estate TikTok, a content whisperer to the star agents of Corcoran, Douglas Elliman, and Nest Seekers. Under her guidance, agents are flocking to TikTok, where, for $700 and up a week, Prigozhina helps them create viral content, writes captions, and even posts on their behalf.
THE YEAR TIKTOK MADE THE MULTIVERSE REAL (AND MURDERED THE NEWSFEED IN THE PROCESS), vanityfair
In our search for the next feed, TikTok has now come unnervingly close to delivering the product that the original Web 2.0 visionaries only dreamed of: unlimited, fully customized content tailored to passive consumption, without the bothersome searching or following or liking or hearting or profile dressing.
THE INTERNET IS AT RISK OF DRIVING WOMEN AWAY, wired
A UNESCO study of journalists found that 73 percent of women surveyed had experienced online violence, and 20 percent said that they had experienced physical attacks or had been abused offline in connection to online abuse.
GEN Z IS RE-THINKING COLLEGE AND CAREER PLANS IN POST-ROE AMERICA: ‘I WANT TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY’, cnbc
“Most of all, though, I have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that this is the United States now …. It’s a really scary time to live here.”
One last thought:
