Molly

“Girl, the boycott” has become such a common comment underneath videos of people who happen to have a Starbucks cup in the background of their shot that it became a meme. To me, and anyone else with similar anxieties, these small but consistent instances are confirmation that not only am I always being watched, but also, I’m always being assessed.

According to TikTok, searches for “2016” went up by 452% in the first week of January, and 1.6 million videos fondly embracing the 2016 aesthetic have been uploaded. “People remember 2016 as the last moment of true mass culture,” Sam Cummins, co-host of the Nymphet Alumni podcast, told Vogue . “Social media hadn’t yet fully fragmented us into... See more

Over the course of two months, we went from something smart that would demand a listener's attention in a way that was challenging and new to something that sounded like every other thing: some dude talking to some other dude about apps that some third dude would half-listen-to at 2x speed while texting a fourth dude about plans for later.

Everyone’s good at everything, and I kind of don’t care. Show me what it looks like when you are bad. Show me how it looks when you get it wrong.

When technical mastery becomes available to everyone, the cracks, the risk, the emotional stakes is what we’ll value.

It feels like a public service announcement at first, but it’s actually part of a larger wave of disaster-core content that mimics the beats of trending sounds and aesthetics to boost views. These videos are often set to a slowed-down version of Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues and frequently include affiliate links, turning parental fear into... See more

But some men find their own liberation within their marriages, dropping the patriarch act. Elizabeth told me about one woman’s husband who now sports a floral trucker hat. He has learned he likes hiking and identifying plants. Bronson mentions another “very manly” man who has taken up gardening to make his own simple syrups for cocktails and the... See more

You want to find a piece of light in a very dark world, and it’s hard to fault you for that, but then why do you need so many? Why do you need limited versions of them? What are you teaching your kids about happiness, where it comes from, and how much it costs? What’s being lost when the line between adult and kid is so blurry? Tweens are... See more