juliana ong

In China, emotional value describes the feeling a purchase produces — treated as part of the product itself.

In May, 89 of Douyin’s top 100 animated dramas were AI-made; in Q1 2026, 128,000 short dramas were released (3x all of last year), 95% AI-generated. A

So maybe we reframe it. Rather than something that can replace us, AI becomes the thing that gives unadulterated human originality real scarcity value

What people often get wrong is that we don’t change our lives to fit our aspirations. We change our aspirations to fit our lives. Aspiration is a map