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Muse-making, moodboards, and Midnights.

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: celebrity fashion stylists, Pinterest’s invite-only collage app, Taylor Swift’s Midnights, and two weird trailers.

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Harry’s Stylist / Shuffles / Weird Trailers

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Hide and seek.

on the practice of hiding your partner on social media, even when you share everything else.

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Gossip Girl: Psycho Killer

Hey, Upper East Siders. 🗡️

on Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl: Psycho Killer, a cutting piece of work.

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Blair Waldorf, Patrick Bateman

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The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp

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is helming our dispatch, a running recap of the latest news in digital culture. This week: streaming content purges, HBO’s The Idol trailer, emoji semantics, and more.


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Streaming amnesia / HBO Levinsoncore

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Dispatch from a festival.

on the first IRL festival from Friends With Benefits, FWB Fest.


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Where does The Rehearsal end?

on the questionable purpose of reenacting reality.

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Nathan Fielder's RPG

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Cameo for Business, a new low.

on the horrors of Cameo’s commercial advertising branch.

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BBC's Middlemarch as an alternative to Persuasion.

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