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Megan's confronting her "emotional truths" about Beyonce, Taylor & being sick.

What's up this week:
🔒 Taylor Swift partners with Google.com for her "vault"
🚆 #TubeGirl is healing our influencers-in-the-wild-trauma
🪟 "the art of noticing" & the catch-22 of performative spirituality 
🤔 digital boundaries & sharing strangers' stories 
👀 Discussing Yellowface Novel by R. F. Kuang
🧪 contemplating who is more toxic Ryan Murphy or Emma Roberts?
📰 media literacy is at all-time highs (and lows) 
🤥 Hasan Minaj is annoying

Mentioned Media:

• Taylor Swift x Google: 1989 (Taylor's Version Vault)
• Sabrina "Tube Girl" Bahsoon 
• @influencersinthewild
• Kelsey Kotzur's Bridesmaid gossip video 
• Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”

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coming off of Hurricane Hilary, a short-lived Stanley Girl era, and her final Summer Book Club series taping with Sari, Megan debriefs on the latest before she sees Beyonce's Birthday show. 🎂

what's been happening:
✨ Idol worship #JungKookIsTheNewJesus 
🙊 decentering men is sometimes quiet work  
📸 Mob gathers around witch sighting in New Jersey at Jack Antonoff's wedding
🎧 Matt Beloni's The Town (Megan's Version) 
🎾 Laura Siegemund's white tears bring out the worst in outrage addicts 
👬🏻 larries live on
🐉 In the court of Public Opinion The North Remembers, Mr. Perfectly Fine

Mentioned Media:

• Not Sorry Art Podcast | Summer Book Club Pt. 3: "Steal Like An Artist" by Austin Kleon
• Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon 
• Megan's Masculinity Series
• The Town | Justin, Ariana, and the Scooter Braun Mess 
• (h/t Shirley Halperin via The Town) Music Business Worldwide: Reliving the Taylor Swift Catalog Sale Saga (and following the money) 

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Ahead of virgo season, Megan's powers are growing inspired by Keke, Beyonce, Blake Lively, and Alfonso Curon's 1995 film A Little Princess. 

what's cool this week:
🌌 according to the stars it's time for inner child healing
🎹 concerts are the place to see & be seen
🚪 being a Gaylor is officially mainstream
👱‍♀️ bobbi Antoff (ib: Amelia Dimoldenberg) is possibly beefing with Drake 
✊🏿 men who decided to eff around finding out (Tory & Southern Whites alike)
🪞 self-reflecting if one of your coping mechanisms is shitting on other women 

mentioned media:

• A Little Princess #justiceforbecky
• A Simple Favor
• Boyfriend by Usher
• Amelia Dimoldenberg's Chicken Shop Date 

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Megan has pretty much been living in Barbieland: curating her dreamhouse, reading hot pink books, and closely following low-stakes home decor drama.

What's cool this week:
📚 joining your local girl gang (or bookclub)
👩‍👧 "inner child" discourse
✖️ men will literally lose themselves to tech before going to therapy (re: Her (2013), Elon)
🤑 more billionaire behavior: zuck @ eras, taylor makes it rain, Kylie enters her socialite era
🐰 foreshadowing  the Gaylor super bowl 
👀 calling out the fatphobia  & misogynoir in the Lizzo discourse 
🏒 explaining the #booktok hockey drama 
🛋️ unpacking interior design drama (also on tiktok) 

Mentioned Media

• Summer Book Club Pt. 2: "Chromophobia" by David Batchelor
• Artist: Lisa Maberry
• ‘Attenzione, Pickpocket!’ A Voice on TikTok Warns Tourists in Italy (NYT)
• ICYMI

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Babysitting a literal baby girl, reviewing the Barbie movie's themes about girlhood & being a woman, and imagining what exactly the female future looks like.

what's cool this week:
🌼 blaming Daisy
🌸 even the best Netflix show is the worst #blesstheirheart
🩷 my thoughts on the Barbie movie  
🔮 my 2023 trend predictions... 8 months later 

what's not cool this week:
🌎 the earth
👎🏽 ineffective edge lord matt healy takes his white savior act on tour 

mentioned media:
r/regretfulparents (Reddit)
Is 'Sweet Magnolias' on Netflix a Christian Show? (Newsweek)
Matty Healy: Malaysia LGBT community angry at 1975 'white saviour stunt' (BBC News) 

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Megan went on a staycation for the Cancer new moon & contemplated the catch-22 of caring for a baby (fur or otherwise) IFKYK 🌼 🌑 🌊

what's cool this week:
🪩 encouraging your friends' sag Mars tendencies 
💵 financial independence for the girlies 
📜 nostalgic camera roll scrolling > doomscrolling #whoknew
🪧 demanding better workplace conditions & fair pay 
☀️ "summering" is back (for child-free women who wfh)
💔 venus retrograde in leo = everyone breaking up 
🍦 pinkydoll 
⏹️ being a clog instead of a cog 

mentioned media:

• Barbiecore: Aesthetic-forward Marketing in the Digital Social Age (M.T. Deco Blog) 
• Culture Work: The Weekly Work (Substack) @culturework (TikTok) 
• How PinkyDoll Mesmerized the Internet With ‘Ice Cream So Good’ (NYT) 
• Not Sari Art podcast: The Moralization of the Gimmick
• The Retrievals podcast (h/t Maddy Buxton) 

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Megan's getting into her gifting bag. wishing a happy birthday to her girl daisy & my other fave cancers 🦀 ♋ 🌊

what's cool this week: 
🩰 balletcore
🧵 zuck's trying to make threads happen, rip twitter 🪦 & wtf reddit?
✈️ the drunk lady on a plane in her final destination era 
👹 who made men the fashion police? (Keke Palmer, Jonah Hill, etc.) 
🤑 kkw's reported theft of sister Kourtney's LDV lifestyle 
👼🏼 Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves launch the ultimate collab on IG: their son
👵🏽 tiktok made an aging filter and i made a botox appointment
🎸 Taylors: Lautner 🔥🐺, Lautner🐺👰🏻, and Swift ✨🎤 & the economics of female safe spaces 

mentioned media:

• Sassed Studios Care Bear sticker 
• One Margarita 
• The Enshittification of TikTok–And Everything
• Frantic Woman on Plane
• Shameless podcast 

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Megan got her hair trimmed, feeling herself she then made a video on TikTok &  accidentally started a student loan debt revolution. 

what's cool this week
👾 The Grimace Challenge (pero no me gusta)
🩸 olivia rodrigo enters her GUTS era with single Vampire
🚉 re-examining miranda sings & colleen ballinger's ill-advised song
👹 tiktok reveals creator robie harvey's fraudulence 
⚖️ cardi b. got her lick back & offset thought we'd care 
🤫 unrelated to the above... tiktok censors open marriage?
📺 what you can expect from tv amid the writer's strike 
📚 my 2023 reading goal 6-month update 

Mentioned Media:

• PODCAST: Infinite Scroll 
• @MomUncharted
• MT Deco: Kids' privacy best practices
• Colleen Ballinger explainer 
• NPR Article on pedestrian death
• Open marriage creator: @openlycommitted 
• Generation Gap 
• Book: A Burst of Light & Other Essays by Audre Lorde 
• Sassed Studios

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this week, Megan really believed she could & so she did... celebrating some wins from the year so far & talking about how we've lost the plot on capitalism. 

what's cool this week:
🪩 Beyonce's virgo tendencies
🎙️  Bill Simmons calls Prince Harry a talentless, embarrassing, grifter.
 ✨  Taylor Swift takes an anti-bullying stance ahead of Speak Now
🎸 Rina Sawayama speaks out against Matty Healy 
🚫 Gen Z is super into negative framing
🐈‍⬛ TikTok calls comedian Katherine Ryan in for bad #marriagehumor
🥊 Elon's mommy put him in timeout to prevent him & Zuckerberg from starting up their own fight club
 
mentioned media:
Colin & Samir: We interviewed a YouTube employee about why videos go viral (YouTube)
YouTube Culture & Trends Report
Glitter Room (Netflix)
The Duchess (Netflix)
@ThatDarnChat (TikTok) 
Katherine Ryan: Telling Everyone Everything (podcast)
"Blueberry Milk" nails (Who What Wear)
Book recommendation: Bliss Montage
 

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Megan, a virgo, accepts that she has impossibly high and particular standards. (Shows no indication of changing that anytime soon.)

what's cool this week:
👕 wardrobe gap couple aka the nicest TikTok "prank" ever
🧸 pondering the millennial toy obsession*
🐁 3 random white men scurried across Megan's desk
📺 "The Idol" (MAX) ft. celebrated pornographers* Sam Levinson &  the weeknd
🐋 Orcanizing* #IStandWithGladys
📚 Reviewing Emily Giffin's Meant To Be (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
👀 father's day online from an eldest daughter's POV

mentioned media: 

• ICYMI podcast episode: "The TikTok Comedian Caught In A Ticketmaster Controversy"
• Colin & Samir: "An Eye-Opening Conversation with Podcast Legend Tim Ferriss"
• DARVO (Wikipedia) 
• Killer Whales Are Not Our Friends (The Atlantic) 
• American Man Arrested for Pushing 2 U.S. Tourists into Ravine at German Castle, Leaving 1 Dead (People) 
• Book recommendation: Meant to Be by Emily Giffin
• Russell Simmons' public meltdown

*allegedly 

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