“I feel like we’re going to see a major reckoning for big streaming services like Spotify. I think underground and DIY aka non-AI/non-corporate art is going to continue to explode. People are tired of the slop.”

Scrolling will be viewed as a vice, in the same impropriety quadrant as vaping

When everything has a sheen of gloss and polish, imperfection holds new value: typos, tiny Photoshop fails, and similar errors are a sign of human-created fidelity. Pockmarked will be the new chic.

“2025 was the first of our medieval years: people speaking to spirits (AI chatbots), the return of puritanical values amongst the youth (sexcession) and the resurgence of an oral-first culture as the power of images is destroyed by AI generation.

“As everything we eat and drink becomes functional, we’ll see a growing appreciation of useless things. Useless is the new luxury.”