#Do you look like ZAYN?

#Do you look like ZAYN?

Inside the rise of the silly and frivolous celebrity look-alike competition. Zayns. By Cady Siregar If there was any sort of confusion regarding the seriousness of the Zayn Malik look-alike competition, inexplicably held in Bushwick, Brooklyn’s Maria Hernandez Park in the middle of November, it was all cleared up once one of the event organizers…

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#Viral recommendation newsletter Perfectly Imperfect is free from the algorithm

#Viral recommendation newsletter Perfectly Imperfect is free from the algorithm

Founder Tyler Bainbridge builds his biweekly dispatches by courting recommendations from high-profile stars, like Charli XCX, and underground musicians. Sam Wachs (@schmoomer on IG) Tyler Bainbridge and I are sitting outside the New York City TikTok hotspot Fanelli’s on a muggy September afternoon, joking about being play-pretend downtown scenesters taking up the corner of a…

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#Nobody will remember your workplace burnout

#Nobody will remember your workplace burnout

Twitter’s “nobody will remember” meme is a painfully real reflection of the burnout crisis. Illustration by Cady Siregar A Twitter meme has the power to give more insight into the mental health of society-at-large than most employee morale activities which is probably why you’ve been finding those tweets about workplace burnout so funny over the…

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#help! i can’t unsee brat green

#help! i can’t unsee brat green

I can’t escape Charli XCX’s viral album art, and it’s breaking my brain. Illustration by Cady Siregar. Last week, I dreamed in brat green It involved some projectile vomiting, so I’d rather not share the nitty-gritty details. But I will say that I woke up feeling quite clammy and slightly concerned about whatever was happening…

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#Federal judge blocks Montana TikTok ban

#Federal judge blocks Montana TikTok ban

U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy has granted TikTok’s request for a preliminary injunction against the state’s ban of the app, writing that the bill “likely violates the First Amendment.” Protestors gather on Capitol Hill to speak out against a proposed national TikTok ban. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images.   TikTok has won…

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