The bike rides. The sleepovers. Your first cigarette. Gossiping about your latest crush. Being consoled when they break your heart. Discovering a new city. Re-discovering your own (at 2AM). The hungover brunches. The tears. The laughs. The love. So many of the moments that shaped us were shared with friends. And then those moments started happening... See more

Second, because we can mass-produce “flawless” content, “flawless” content now feels cheap. It’s supply and demand: when you can generate 100s of blemish-free photos, podcast “recordings” without a single grammatical error, and detailed “research reports” in seconds, the value of these outputs drop to zero. AI made efficiency so simple that... See more

On TikTok, “Party Magician” clips are going viral, showing adults screaming and jumping like kids around card tricks and sleight of hand. Cosmo attributes this to a “deep whimsy deficiency” among young adults following years of pandemic isolation and instability.