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understanding the hype

i used to base my personality around rejecting what everyone else liked in favor of more obscure, more niche, less likable stuff. but i then i grew up. and i realized that pop music is good.

@mcbean

Nov 14, 2024

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Going full circle on pop culture

My life is a feedback loop of me one day thinking I’m too good for pop culture, and the next wondering what Troye Sivan would order at my local Chinese restaurant

@gianluca

Jan 31, 2024

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brands have become identity

i think before tiktok or instagram there was a more homogeneous idea about what was cool bc magazines had a monopoly on the industry. now that the internet has democratized what gets to be cool there are different types of cool, which is the rise of different competing styles. but these styles aren’t really just about like “do you like low rise jeans” so much as they are “what do the low rise jeans say about you” which has caused a lot of aesthetics to be simultaneously tied to a specific identity, in turn marketing and influencing has become increasingly niche. i think that certain influencers becoming enmeshed in their aesthetics hasn’t helped either where if, for example, tara yummy recommended an eyeliner the goth girls would eat it up, but the clean girls might not care, bc that eyeliner would be contrary to not just their aesthetic, but identity. but if tara yummy was emily mariko the opposite effect would happen to both camps, if that makes sense. TLDR; niche aesthetics and microindivduality is killing mass marketing

@mdoinurmom

Feb 18, 2024

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being friends with people smarter than you

if you think you’re the smartest person in your friend group you’re weird and annoying. the best friendships come out of mutual awe and respectability. be friends with people who make you want to know more things.

@mdoinurmom

Jan 29, 2024

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rejecting the word situationship

i will never be in a situationship in the same way i will never be in the land of oz--it's just not real. i think using the word doesn't let you self-reflect in a way that is truly helpful. i was telling my friend about the awkwardness of seeing an exhook up in a relationship bc i thought we had mutual feelings and she said "oh your exsituationship" and i thought (for the first time) no, we had clear boundaries i just got my hopes up. my point is that instead of using situationship as a catch-all for not quite dating or wtv failed prospect, take it as a moment to reflect on what exactly went wrong. idk if this is profound or not

@mdoinurmom

Jan 30, 2025

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walking&walkable cities

i’m averaging 14,000 steps a day for the past year, why? i walk everywhere. at one point i was averaging 16,000 (this is my flex). you get to explore a city and now when people ask me for directions i can actually tell them bc i’ve gotten really good at knowing where i am. if it takes less than an hour for me to walk from a to b, i will walk. if i have enough time i’ll walk 2+ hours just to see someone. just put on a good playlist/pod and go go go!!

@mdoinurmom

Jan 29, 2024

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