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Revisiting Industry (cover image)

The show that launched this very newsletter.

Monday marks the season 2 premier of HBO’s Industry. The oldest Dirtbags will recall that Dirt launched in December 2020 with a week of content about Industry season 1. Before you dive in to season 2, revisit some of our greatest hits.

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Revisiting Industry

Davide and Ekin-Su kissing, Love Island

Smooth brains in the villa.

on the questionable pleasures of a post-Brexit Britain’s number-one export: Love Island.


Live, laugh, 'Love Island'

Live, Laugh, -Love Island- (cover image)

on the questionable pleasures of a post-Brexit Britain’s number-one export: Love Island.

Live, Laugh, -Love Island- (thumbnail image)

RadioShack Twitter

You can't escape the horny RadioShack account.

on brand Twitter and the sex inherent in commodity fetishism.

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Cummodity fetishism

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The digital world can be too smooth for comfort.

on designers’ theft of digital textures that better emulate the physical world. He also made this on-theme Dirt logo.

The black market of BlkMarket

A scan of a teenage Ivanka Trump in Teen Vogue. (Instagram/@thankyouatoosa)

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The Amy Astley era.

on her favorite teen magazine and its embrace of nepotism babies, before Gen Z made the term a thing.

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Teen Vogue's "nepo babies"

Illustration by Kyle Knapp

Snap crackle pop.

writes that ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) has returned television back to the revolutionary-adjacent art form that Walter Benjamin saw film being 86 years ago.

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Live, laugh, 'Love Island'

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Teen Vogue's "nepo babies"

Streaming broke TV

The no redemption tour

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