Our feeds are filling up with illegible content, and every day it gets harder to find common ground. Is social media in a death spiral? And if so, what comes next? There’s a genre of post that’s been circulating online for a while now. It features a borderline-nonsensical meme, like… the lime-green album cover for …
Customize your timepiece to showcase your style, from Tory Burch to Target. Ever since the Apple Watch was released nine years ago, we’ve been living the space-age dream of communicating through a wrist accessory. And though the Jetsons would be proud, this new form of technology has opened up an interesting conundrum: How can you …
The filmmaker’s latest project is an aggregator of contemporary internet culture ‘vibes’ “Right in front of my eyes we’re all turning into animals and there’s no turning back.” This is a line from Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft but it could easily be said to describe what it feels like to be online today. The ‘man-made …
Streetwear has grown from humble origins to become a prominent force in the worldwide fashion scene. The emergence of streetwear influencers has contributed to the mainstreaming of a once-niche look. Many street-style icons have captured the attention of the public, but the man in question is not a youngster. The 71-year-old social media star Alojz …
Image Credits: eBay EBay on Tuesday launched a new generative AI-powered feature to appeal to fashion enthusiasts: a “shop the look” section within its iOS mobile app that will suggest a carousel of images and ideas, based on the customer’s shopping history. The company says its recommendations will be personalized to the end user and …
A rising star in the Chinese hyperpop scene, Billionhappy is making his mark on the Shanghai underground with blissed-out tracks that are garnering tens of millions of streams. Having toured with the likes of Beijing rapper Blood Boiz, his music is a spacey restructuring of classic Chinese pop songs blitzed together with glitchy beats and …
The show’s fourth season examines the strange, symbiotic relationship between our two most basic desires: ‘innovation and getting off’ Over the last four decades, the internet has transformed the way we have, talk about, and view sex. What’s less spoken about is the symbiosis of this relationship. Sex has always been a driving force in …
With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies I am sitting on the tube on my way to a casting when opposite me I see an ad for an insurance company. The model …
My heart’s pounding more than normal as I wait for Jia Tolentino to pick up my call. There’s something about interviewing another writer that feels specifically terrifying. Are they going to think my questions are dumb? Are they going to be quietly editing my ramblings in their head? Are they going to read the resulting …
E-commerce giant Flipkart’s marketplace arm Flipkart Internet saw its operating revenue increase by 42% year-on-year in the 2023 financial year to total Rs 14,845 crore compared to Rs 10,477 crore in the 2022 financial year. The business’ losses dropped by 9% year-on-year last fiscal to Rs 4,026 crore compared to Rs 4,419 crore in the …