Teens are dressing in suits to see 'Minions' as meme culture and boredom collide
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Teens are dressing in suits to see 'Minions' as meme culture and boredom collide
Years before Instagram influencers and TikTok stars, these young creatives invented an entirely new model of fame, luring in audiences not yet trained to spend hours of their days absently flipping through the internet.
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The subreddit r/MemeEconomy now boasts 1.4 million followers — self-proclaimed “meme analysts” — each dedicated to uncovering and “investing” in the memes that they believe have the most viral potential.
Harry Jones • The Meme Economy
Unlike those in my generation whose first step after college was, more often than not, onto a corporate conveyor belt, the students I see today are no more likely to be enthralled by the promise of a corner office than they are by a ride to the love-in on the Magic Bus.
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
the Great Resignation has inspired a generation of workers to speak critically --- and cynically --- about the role of labor in their lives. As a result, zoomers (and millennials, to an extent) have been touted, perhaps undeservedly, as beacons of anti-capitalism and pivotal figures in the nationwide quitting spree.