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2024 Professional Wrap-up

Every year, I begin work wondering what I could possibly do that could be new or different, and...
Earnest Pettie4 months ago
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New “Flowers” and an awards update

It's been a year since my last post about Flowers. A year ago, we had a premiere screening in Hollywood, and we'd released two of three videos we'd produced in the series. Last Friday, we released the last in our latest batch of videos, bringing our total to six. In the meantime, our series has won several awards!
Earnest Pettie5 months agoDec 16, 20241 Comment on New “Flowers” and an awards update
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How to deal with the feeling of too many “trends”

There's an opinion becoming dominant in the world of "trends" that the Internet is generating too many trends too quickly for anyone to keep up with, that the word itself is becoming meaningless as a result. I think this perspective is the antidote.
Earnest Pettie7 months agoOct 13, 20242 Comments on How to deal with the feeling of too many “trends”
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How Coyote VS Acme and Alicia Keys connect to my favorite corner of the internet

The NFL's altering of Alicia Keys's Super Bowl performance and Warner Bros. cancellation of Coyote vs. Acme call to mind one of my favorite corners of the internet, Lost Media.
Earnest PettieFeb 18, 2024Feb 18, 2024
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Flowers: Chicken Noodle Soup (a personal reflection)

It’s 2006. You open YouTube in Firefox and see the Flash-based video player showing low-resolution footage of kids...
Earnest PettieJan 19, 2024Jan 19, 2024
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7 years of Doordash orders

I just realized you could download all of your data from Doordash, so I downloaded my ZIP file...
Earnest PettieJan 15, 2024Jan 15, 2024
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2024: Year of the Billionfluencer

The rise of billionfluencers marks a shift as billionaires are now seen as objects of fandom, wielding great influence through social media, directing discourse and attention.
Earnest PettieJan 10, 2024Jan 11, 2024
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Why music is memes and we make the hits

In today's landscape, the popularity of a song is often less about a song speaking to you and more about a song speaking for you.
Earnest PettieJan 5, 2024Jan 5, 20242 Comments on Why music is memes and we make the hits
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Is Everything Fandom?

As the things that traditionally bound us together have receded in our social lives and the internet is increasingly that social glue, have we allowed fandoms to replace institutions in our lives?
Earnest PettieDec 29, 2023Jan 10, 20241 Comment on Is Everything Fandom?
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Melrose Place, Milkshake Ducks, and Media Viruses

A decades-old media theory has me wondering whether trending discourse is becoming an antidote to viral media.
Earnest PettieDec 23, 2023Jan 10, 20242 Comments on Melrose Place, Milkshake Ducks, and Media Viruses
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Quick thoughts

2 months ago

Twitter/X is such a grim place. It’s what I imagine New York City was like in the late 70s/early 80s.

2 months ago

Two older musical acts whose new music I will still immediately click on: Young MC and Papa Roach.

2 months ago

I wonder whether Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian are thinking about the real corrosive influence on link-sharing communities: companies. Once a site becomes a sure source of traffic, companies immediately dream of ways to exploit it. https://www.theverge.com/social/624073/digg-relaunch-2025

2 months ago

How did Bubble Boy never become a cult classic?

3 months ago

My entire life, I’ve heard “markets crave certainty.” If that’s the case, though, how do you explain the markets during this administration?

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