alexi gunner
@idlegaze
cultural strategist
writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.
founder @ idle gaze consulting
cultural futurist @ RADAR
alexi gunner
idlegaze.substack.com
One glance and you aren’t subsumed by “visual cacophony” (no disrespect to visual cacophony, which we of course love) but you can tell that these sites are clearly operated by cool people with unique & interesting taste nonetheless…
Jonah & Erin • Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
‘Yeah, TikTok is for three things: learning stuff and feeling good about yourself, stalking people, and brain rot.’
In this way, brain rot is what we might call a ‘genre of participation’, to borrow a term from the work of the cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. On a digital social media application like TikTok, with its endless different types of... See more
In this way, brain rot is what we might call a ‘genre of participation’, to borrow a term from the work of the cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. On a digital social media application like TikTok, with its endless different types of... See more
Emilie Owens • Why teenagers are deliberately seeking brain rot on TikTok | Psyche Ideas
In almost every language, “journey” has become a way to talk abstractly about outcomes, for good reason: According to what linguists call the “primary metaphor theory,” humans learn as babies crawling toward their toys that “‘purpose’ and ‘destination’ coincide,” said Elena Semino, a linguist at Lancaster University who specializes in metaphor. As
... See moreLisa Miller • Everything Is a Journey Now
[Public] LinkedIn Algorithm Guide
The following insights are based on independent research and analysis of over 1.5 million posts from Richard van der Blom- from 34,000 individual profiles, and over 26,000 company pages, spanning over 50 countries and 25 languages.
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You’ve already heard about the party, you know the vibe, but now you officially get the invitation, the flier, the community guidelines, a shared intention is forming.1 With that in mind, you put together your look, rally the crew, and it’s finally going down. You’ve made it through the line, past the door, and it’s the first step onto the
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