259! The Trend-Mill

Critical Nonsense

What does this "trend-mill" mean, what does it say about us as people, and how bad is it, really?

This week, special guests Claire and Chloe join Jess and Joey to talk about the mob-wife aesthetic, accessibility, TikTok, blueberry milk nails, social networks vs. social media, and Trader Joe's totes. They don’t talk about why the combination of peanut butter and jelly is a gotdamn abomination.

references

• Vogue: Blueberry Milk Nails Are Summer’s Most-Wanted Manicure
• Zaria Parvez: How the Comment Section became Duolingo's new Push Notification
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
• onika burgers