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Why Brands Keep Collabing with Sorority Girls Long Past Rush (opens the original)
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This week on our cultural calendar🍿🎞️🎮 TODAY Resident Evil in theaters 🍿🎞️💃🏾 TODAY Best of the Best on Netflix🍿📺🍏 WEDNESDAY Brothers on Apple TV🍿📺 🧪 WEDNESDAY The Love Hypothesis on PrimeThis week we’re sharing a guest essay by brand strategist Allie Walker. Allie shares an ethos central to Cool Shiny—that brands get left behind when
What We’re Watching & Why: A Fall Movie Preview & Analysis (opens the original)
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This week on our cultural calendar🎞️💖🐈⬛ TODAY Practical Magic 2 hits theaters📺🏆⭐ MONDAY The Emmys on NBC🍿📺🐭 TUESDAY Dancing With the Stars on ABC🍿📺🦚 THURSDAY The Traitors New Blood on PeacockFall Movie Preview: Ones to Watch + Discourse DriversThe summer was <a href="https://vari
e.l.f. holds it down in Minnesota (opens the original)
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Upcoming on our cultural calendar🏟️🥇🏈 9/9 NFL Season Kickoff🎞️💖🐈⬛ 9/11 Practical Magic 2🍿📺🐭 9/15 Dancing With the Stars S35🍿🎞️🐈⬛ 10/2 The Influencer ProjectExamining the KarJenner’s Portfolio Approach to Cultural DominationWhether or not you’re choosing to keep up, c
When Metrics Replace Fandom: The High Cost of Async TV (opens the original)
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This week on our cultural calendar:🍿🎞️🐕 TODAY The Dog Stars hits theaters💖🎡📱 SATURDAY Daisy Chain Fields🏈🍁🎲 SATURDAY College Football Kickoff🍿🎞️😱 WEDNESDAY Fall 2: DeadpointMegan on TV Losing the PlotPicture this. The year is 2041, and it’s Emmys FY
The Cultural Curve of T[/w]een Shopping 🛍️🛒📱 (opens the original)
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This week on our cultural calendar🎟️🤠💖 TODAY Kacey Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere Tour kicks off🎾🥇🗽 MONDAY US Open qualifiers beginThe Cultural Curve of T[w]een ShoppingIt’s time for our (semi-)monthly drop of a fresh Cultural Curve! This time we’re looking at Gen Alpha & Gen Z shopping through the lens of back-to-school.Before we get into it… a quick refresher on the Cultural Curve: We use the Cultural Curve to
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