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Liminal Spaces may be the most 2020 of all trends

A modern media phenomenon is a reminder of the purgatory of the pandemic.
Earnest PettieSep 6, 2023Jan 6, 20251 Comment on Liminal Spaces may be the most 2020 of all trends
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3 weeks ago

Cliches aren’t born; they develop from the abuse of repetition. I think that the speed and scale at which generative AI works will likely send certain phrases and constructs speeding into their second lives as cliches faster than we’ve ever experienced. The em-dash discourse was just the beginning.

4 weeks ago

My theory. All the people in the drug ads you see on TV exist in the same world. They’re in a horrible Truman Show style environment where they are being coerced into demonstrating positive effects of the drugs. They can’t not smile or they get moved to “the control group.”

3 months ago

The Studbudz All-Star weekend stream is better than any sports-related programming I’ve ever seen, including F1: Drive to Survive. They should win every kind of Emmy, including daytime and regional.

4 months ago

The white pages would be wild to a young person. A book with everyone’s phone numbers AND addresses that you had to pay EXTRA to be excluded from.

4 months ago

YouTube’s 20th continues with a trends report we released today. Some parts of this story will be very familiar, but I think you’ll find surprises in the data. https://www.youtube.com/trends/report/tr25-20th-birthday/

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