Gut, vibes, f’it mentality, surrealism, ambiguity. Magic and mysticism.

Connor O’Malley, Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson are really interesting comedians to watch, and I think strike the chord perfectly.

Their shit is objectively weird and exists in a limbo: is this for real? They exist in the liminal.

Severance did this well and people ate it up. I... See more

Hyper-optimization and the quantification of everything is another driver. Everything now has a probability. This isn't just driven by the availability of data, but perhaps also a desire to "control" or "measure" outcomes, considered how freaked and out of control shit feels.