Have You Ever Seen a Goth Downtown?
It’s depressingly easy to forget you are an individual, with your own taste. A unique person. That contains multitudes. It’s worryingly easy - especially when young, especially when feeling in any way lost or unsure, especially when chronically online - to let the algorithm push you. Away from the edges, towards the middle. Away from anything old, ... See more
Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?
There are many reasons why this might have happened.
Perhaps when times are turbulent, people seek the safety of the familiar. Perhaps it’s our obsession with quantification and optimisation. Or maybe it’s the inevitable result of inspiration becoming globalised.
Alex Murrell • The age of average
Hype adjacent - Can they understand the cultural zeitgeist, without completely falling into it? Are they able to exist comfortably without falling into every micro-trend or hype train? Folded into this, is a certainty in self.
Anson Yu • sparkly people and how to find them
