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John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
As Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell promoted their romantic comedy, “Anyone but You,” last year, life appeared to be imitating art: The co-stars posed cheek to cheek while sightseeing in Australia. Powell dipped a gleeful Sweeney in his arms. Sweeney cast longing gazes up at Powell on red carpets. The pair flirted and giggled in interviews.
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Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell on How ‘Anyone but You’ Beat the Rom-Com Odds
Homogeneity of style: A Substack newsletter can have an About page, but that’s it. There will never be anything like Nadia’s notes which are a regularly updated half-baked stream of consciousness, or Guzey’s list of Tweets or even Nintil’s categories.
nintil.com • Nintil - [Guest Post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Zunger proposed adding a third tier for these debatable clips: keep them up but note internally that they were close to the line. If accounts came close too often, pull them from video recommendations.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
The BuzzFeed Style Guide advises that individual Tumblr blog names should be capitalized and set in roman type,
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Hilde Van den Bulck, a professor of communication at Drexel University, has studied the version of fandom that inverts its practices and creates a community of denigration. Where fandom tends to derive from a positive emotion (I love this actor; I love that character), anti-fandom draws from just the opposite, and nurtures negative feelings toward ... See more