How do you explain to friends, family and even strangers that you don’t drink (or not drinking right now?) This writer shares her struggle to find the right words
These salacious stories about sex after seventy will be one of the best things you read all week, promise
Still got your Christmas tree up or wishing it was? This is for you
A long, but brutally honest essay on getting paid in the influencing industry (“The frustrating thing about “influencer” culture you don’t see from the outside is that we are essentially self-producing commercials for huge brands. And to do that you need to hire photographers, videographers, assistants, etc. Those people expect to be paid pretty much immediately while the brands paying you to produce content seem to have no urgency whatsoever as to when they’ll pay you.”)
Here’s what being asymptomatic really means
To mark five years since the demise of Vine (RIP 🙏), NBC News has written a fascinating series about former Vine stars, including Vine-then-YouTube star Christine Sydelko, who rose to internet fame and left it all behind, logged off and never looked back
All hail Tumblr, the only website that became popular again by being obsolete
Actually helpful advice for overcoming failure (“You did your very best, and it simply wasn’t good enough. This kind of failure is especially painful, and can be hard to shake. So what do you do now? You can just hunker down and hope that time will heal the wound. But perhaps you would prefer to deal with your pain and actively manage it.”)
22 films to look forward to in 2022
Wait, why are hyperlinks blue?
A love letter to picking up and giving up habits
Diet culture isn’t dead, we’re just not calling them ‘diets’ anymore
A beautiful piece about getting sober and piecing together a community and a survivable life in the middle of the pandemic
Annddddd…. what 2022 feels like so far, us every day when talking to our friends, a solid case for making cookies without chocolate chips, TikTok is testing a ‘Stories’ feature and Instagram is testing creator subscriptions in the US, this Twitter advice thread is everything, apparently GIFs are uncool now 🙃, love this cosy Harlem apartment, a low-stakes whodunnit straight from our own hometown, what name do you want on the order, German mum crunch, do this before accepting your next job offer, how to let go, and we challenge you to play Absurdle without throwing your phone out the window (here’s how to play)
