All Caught Up: Tesla robots, Miss Universe transvestigation, the rise of boredom

Shake Shack goes first class

Nikita Walia

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Christina Monroe

Nov 22, 2024

Hi, hello, let’s get into it. Y’all know my news for the week.

This week's picks include Movie Chocolate, Barron Trump’s “sootcase” and Defecation Postural Modification Devices.

Christina’s weekly scroll –

Miss Universe has been crowned (weird stuff happening over there), and transvestigation has reached paranoid schizophrenic levels.
Is Kim Kardashian fucking her $30k Tesla robot? Reminder: Human employees control these remotely…
lmaooo.. IT’S HAPPENING!
Nikita note: I think the writing is on the wall on who she voted for with this, thanks.
Spirit files for bankruptcy. Womp womp!
Chinese government agency insiders are monetizing citizens' data via the black market. Nice! Cool. Normal!
Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer, shot Volvo's new ad. Tough week for Jaguar.
Olivia Rodrigo x Lancôme!!! So cutie! Her L’Absolue Rouge lipstick campaign will debut by the end of the year.
Now playing: Movie Chocolate. A24 is now selling milk chocolate on moviechocolate.co –– coming to AMC theatres this holiday season. I love A24 but… a production company branded chocolate feels… strange (?) Ngl, these do sound tasty:
🥤 Fizzy Fountain Soda ~ creamy root beer and effervescent popping candy
🍿 Popcorn and Candy ~ fluffy popcorn and candy-coated chocolate pieces
🥜 Salty Peanut Crunch ~ salty peanuts and a caramel crunch
Blackstone acquired Jersey Mike’s in an $8B deal. Fun!
U.S. regulators are forcing Google to sell Chrome, but will that really end its search monopoly? Probably not!
Maurizio Cattelan's taped banana sold for $6.2M at auction. Justin Sun, the buyer, plans to eat the banana.
Lowkey shocked by the number of people eating UP the Barron Trump “sootcase” clip. Hate to break it to you, but he is no longer 3 years old!

Nikita’s weekly scroll –

If you’re chronically stressed your brain forms fewer specific memories ;(
A cultural trend I’m tracking – the proliferation of entertainment and the simultaneous rise of boredom. I had a professor in college who said that (paraphrase) as we have more images, they’ll mean less. If we have more entertainment, perhaps it’s just less entertaining.
Boy Room is now sponsored by Amazon Prime.
Steven Smith – of YEEZY fame…is in at Crocs. Hate to see Hey Dudes winning.
Enjoyed this from TRIPTK. The whole consumer participation in branding thing is a very delicate line to walk - as I’ve often talked about in my writing as well.
1 in 5 Americans get their news from news influencers.
Delta is offering Shake Shack to First Class passengers. Sounds stinky.
You can reset your recommendations on IG but also that seems like a really scary place to start from 0. Maybe the algorithm isn’t all that bad. You won this one, Adam.
Seed launched a Squatty Potty. Sorry –– a Defecation Postural Modification Device.
Can’t stop thinking about this TikTok all about bowl-based foods aka Chipotle and our miserable existence.