Quick Dip: Tung Tung Tung Sahur
Tung Tung Tung Sahur: TikTok’s strangest meme characters are not random. They are what happens when culture, AI, sound, and algorithmic repetition collapse into one extremely cursed wooden man. Tung Tung Tung Sahur looks like something a sleep-deprived internet invented because it had no other choice. A wooden humanoid figure. A stick. A chant-like name. […]
AI Slop: When the Internet Drowns in Synthetic Junk
AI Didn’t Create Slop. It Industrialized It. AI slop is what happens when production outpaces imagination. AI slop was easy to laugh at when it looked like Shrimp Jesus, cat soap operas, fake “great photography” posts, and dead-eyed content farms dressed up as creativity. It had a clear visual language: too glossy, too weird, too […]
Emotional Risk Economies: Escape
This article is Part 4 of 4 in our Emotional Risk Economies series, a framework that explores how different categories operate under distinct emotional contracts on social media. Each installment examines the structural pressures, audience psychology, and platform incentives shaping brand risk in real time. Emotional Risk Economies Universe: Part 1: Trust Economy || Part […]
Emotional Risk Economies: Prestige
This article is Part 3 of 4 in our Emotional Risk Economies series, a framework that explores how different categories operate under distinct emotional contracts on social media. Each installment examines the structural pressures, audience psychology, and platform incentives shaping brand risk in real time. Emotional Risk Economies Universe: Part 1: Trust Economy || Part […]
Emotional Risk Economies: Alignment
This article is Part 2 of 4 in our Emotional Risk Economies series, a framework that explores how different categories operate under distinct emotional contracts on social media. Each installment examines the structural pressures, audience psychology, and platform incentives shaping brand risk in real time. Emotional Risk Economies Universe: Part 1: Trust Economy || Part 2: Alignment || Part 3: […]
A Pinterest Holiday Strategy: 2025
Holiday feeds get noisy; Pinterest stays useful. People open it to plan and decide—then buy. Treat it like lower-funnel social search: get your catalog clean, publish decision-aid Pins, and let automation and Promotions do the heavy lifting, with Trend Badges extending shelf life where it fits. The platform’s latest holiday report backs this up with […]