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If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
Aging hipsters and corduroy-clad high school sophomores are both primarily concerned with dodging lameness.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Glenn McDonald,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
As the internet continues to decentralize culture, letting us choose which streaming services and video games and social media we want to base our lives around, some of the most intoxicating new music is coming from these tiny SoundCloud pockets, which you can only access if you already know to look there. This is music you won’t find in mainstream... See more
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
It makes sense that norms are shifting in this direction as Gen Z’s influence spreads. Raised on social media, with access to once illicit bad-taste touchstones like Rocky Horror just a click away, they’ve largely replaced IRL subcultures with a constellation of aesthetics—cottagecore, dark academia, Y2K—to be performed, then discarded or demoted t... See more
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
Creator Economy- anyone who is creating community around original content.
Sam Yam • a16z Podcast: How the Passion Economy Is Redefining Work | Andreessen Horowitz
human tastemakers,