It occurs to me that the Clubhouse management actually cares very little about the long-term fates of these kids. After all, there’s a fungible supply of well-complected youngsters constantly streaming into Los Angeles. Only a very small percentage of these kids will actually make it in the industry; the rest of them, Amir tells me, will eventually just “cycle through.”

Source: [Letter from Los Angeles] The Anxiety of Influencers, By Barrett Swanson | Harper’s Magazine

In 1995, an online troll impersonated Ken Zeran on AOL, posting tasteless ads with his phone number. Zeran sued AOL, and lost. The person behind the ads has never been identified. 

Source: How One Man’s Fight Against An AOL Troll Sealed The Tech Industry’s Power

There is, once again, a trendy term going viral. A term that is dividing generations and genders. A term that groups a number of food, fashion, decor, and aesthetic preferences by how not-trendy they are. The word is “cheugy” and it’s as cringe-y as it sounds.

Source: Don’t Know What Cheugy Is? That’s Fine, You Really Don’t Need To

Where did half a trillion dollars go? AOL and Yahoo have been sold once again: This time private equity firm Apollo Global Management is buying them from Verizon for $5 billion. It’s a paltry sum for a pair of companies that were once valued at more than $475 billion combined.

Source: Digging in the dust of AOL and Yahoo’s lost internet empires

@webkinzwhore143Expand 👏 your 👏 vocabulary 👏 to 👏 include 👏 made 👏 up 👏 words 👏#greenscreen #cheugy #cheug♬ original sound – Hal

Out of touch? Basic? A new term to describe a certain aesthetic is gaining popularity on TikTok.

Source: What Is ‘Cheugy’? You Know It When You See It.