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☆ Before having kids, I thought light-up shoes were tacky. Now that I'm a mom, I get it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Elliott Harrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Before kids, I couldn't figure out why parents would buy light up shoes or character clothing for their children. I was not prepared for the joy character items bring my daughterMy daughter loves clothes and gets excited when any new item gets delivered. But the day her new Ariel bathing suit arrived was a level of excitement that I've never seen before. A few months before the Ariel bathing suit, we were in Target. It's why I subsequently sought out an Ariel bathing suit because I knew it would make her over the moon.

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☆ Gen Zers don't think dating apps are fun anymore, but this CEO thinks she's cracked the code
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It puts the success of your dating life in the hands of your friends or family, who create your profile for you. Many Gen Zers have been on social media since they were tweens, and by the time they reached dating age, they were jaded. AdvertisementDating used to be funMany people believe dating apps aren't fun anymore. Related storiesAccording to Statista data, people aged 18-29 now make up only 26% of online dating service users in the US. Wilson believes these founders were wrong because Gen Zers enjoy the "karmic reward" of Wingman.

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☆ Elon Musk has made a nasty mess for X, but it may not matter all that much to him
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

X owner Elon Musk, who has endorsed Trump, replied, "And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala." Related stories"I don't think this is much more than just confirmation that X is not a place for brands. This year, advertisers slashed their X marketing budgets ahead of major events like the Super Bowl. Musk is still the richest person in the world, with a net worth of about $250 billion, per Bloomberg. AdvertisementSo X may suffer, but Musk will probably come out alright.

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☆ Companies are caving to anti-DEI crusaders. That’s bad for business
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-06 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

(And in doing so, gave rise to a generation of hilarious “That’s why, for this pride month, I’ve partnered with” memes. But more damaging than the cringe of a tone-deaf tweet about diversity is when companies give up on the performance altogether. This week, Molson Coors, a longtime sponsor of Pride events and partner to LGBTQ+ nonprofits, joined the list. A Molson Coors representative declined to comment beyond the memo. Coors Light may have looked at its rival getting pummeled by right-wing pundits and feared being the next target.

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☆ I've been a student in the UK for 6 years. But my family in the US is getting older, and I'm torn about moving back to be with them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-26 | by ( Erin Liam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Scarlett Kiaras-AttariI wanted to pursue a master's in medieval history. Although there are so many great departments in the US for religious studies and medieval history, my mentors at school had all studied at Oxbridge — colleges across Oxford and Cambridge. So, in 2022, I followed their advice and pursued a master's in Medieval History at the University of Oxford. That's the difficulty of expat life — there's the US in the UK version of myself, and I'm always teetering between two places. Although I used to think that I'd stay in the UK, I've recently started to think about how my family members are getting old.

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☆ I'm a millennial mom of 3, and I rely on my mom's financial assistance
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Alyse Benoit | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Without a doubt, my mom expected to be free of dependents decades ago. But here I am, 39, unable to save a cent, in need of her financial support. I was otherwise financially independent, worked three jobs, had a good chunk of money saved, and my life was planned out. Not only was I feeling the effects of financial strain from the cost of school, but physical, mental, and ethical exhaustion had taken hold. She loaned me money to pay off that debt and told me I could pay my rent when I received my next student loan payment.

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☆ My husband and I divorced after 2 years of marriage. We started dating again, but we won't re-marry.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Lauren Crosmedlicott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

At the time, I was getting over a relationship, and Rob was away with his friends for a bachelor party. But eventually, his persistence paid off, and we started going out; I told him I wanted to take it slow. In my head, I started making Rob out to be a lazy, irresponsible man. He moved in with his mom, and I got my own place for Noah and me. We started dating againRob and I also started dating again.

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☆ I was so focused on dorm room essentials I didn't know I had to do these 7 things ahead of my son's college move-in
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Erika Ebsworth-Goold | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Open a new, nationwide bank accountMy son's been working part-time for several years, and his paychecks go directly to his bank account. Download those rideshare apps now, and make sure they're linked to your kid's new bank card. Check ahead, and if originals are needed, hand them over — but stress the importance of keeping them safe and secure. Make sure they are registered to voteLast but certainly not least, if your incoming college freshman is 18, they're finally eligible to vote. Make sure your child is registered and has a plan for November — and beyond — if attending school out of state.

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Children born after 2010, Gen Alpha are the internet’s newest darlings. Gen Alpha’s hyper online manner of speaking has been dubbed “brainrot,” mostly by older Gen Zer’s who share spaces like TikTok with them. It evolves so quickly online.”With the new slang, Gen Alpha itself has gained a reputation. When older people try to use Gen Alpha slang, “It’s kind of embarrassing,” Beryl said. “Every single person throughout history has always complained about how the younger generations are ruining language with their made-up slang,” Aleksic said.

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Even some on the right said the “weird” attack had landed. “Casting your opposition as cringe, lame, and weird is an effective strategy,” conservative political activist Matt Walsh posted Monday on X. Donald Trump Jr. has leaned heavily on redirecting the word “weird,” using it against Harris five times, including in a caption on a video of her high-fiving a drag performer. “The left wants you to believe that one of these people is ‘weird’ [and] that the other one is completely normal,” he wrote. “Well, they’re the weird ones,” Trump said.

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☆ The Obamas Called Kamala Harris. Cameras Rolled. Hokeyness Ensued.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Rebecca Davis O Brien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kamala Harris’s dizzying rollout as a presidential candidate somehow pulled off the rare feat of looking organic and organized, fun but without cringe-inducing artifice. Somehow, the Biden-turned-Harris campaign managed to make former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, once America’s coolest political couple, sound like parents in a Lifetime movie calling their child at summer camp. Early Friday morning, the Harris campaign posted a video it produced that depicted a phone call from Mr. and Mrs. Obama, which had taken place on Wednesday, in which they gave Ms. Harris their much-awaited endorsement. Mr. Obama’s 5:01 a.m. post of the video on X had more than 50 million views by 2 p.m. The video begins as an offscreen aide hands Ms. Harris a phone, while she is walking backstage at an event in Indianapolis.

Persons: Kamala Harris’s, Harris, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Obama, Obama’s Organizations: Biden Locations: Indianapolis

To understand the wave of coconut tree and K-Hive content that’s hitting your social media feeds and your group texts this week, you need some context. She worked for the Kamala Harris campaign as a social media strategist during the then senator’s failed 2019 run. As she told Audie Cornish on The Assignment, the current internet obsession with remixing Harris’ 2023 White House speech invoking a coconut tree isn’t that surprising. “They can create and uplift the messages that are arising organically without overdoing it or making it feel cringe,” she said. “This is where trusted messengers, I think, are really, really important.”Listen to the full conversation on The Assignment here.

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☆ I'm a public school teacher trying to save money for grad school. I'm on my parents' phone plan and they pay for my tickets to see them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Jacqueline Lekachman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Swiping through photos of the renovated Manhattan apartment her parents had just purchased for her, I felt a twinge of longing. AdvertisementBeing a public school teacher can make New York City really expensiveI pay for my own rent, utilities, healthcare, food, clothes, entertainment, and other expenses — which add up in New York. As a result, I budget and invest my money seriously because, let's face it, I'm not rolling in cash as a 23-year-old public school teacher. My parents' approach means I'm thoughtful when spending moneyDespite challenges, though, I appreciate that my parents encourage my financial independence. But ultimately I know my parents' expectations are fair and well-intentioned.

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☆ The Triumphant Comeback of the Kamala Harris Meme
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Amanda Hess | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kamala Harris is a highly memeable presidential candidate. Videos of Harris dancing at campaign events were labeled “cringe.” The stickiest anti-Kamala meme of the 2020 election — that the former prosecutor Harris “is a cop” — united leftists, Black Twitter and Republican trolls in an internet-wide project of framing Harris as either a reactionary or a hypocrite. Since President Biden bowed out of the race and threw his support to Harris, the familiar old Kamala memes have risen again. Her dance moves have been set to Charli XCX songs and filtered through Charli’s lime-green “Brat”-era branding, bathing Harris in her chill hot-mess pop star glow. Even “Kamala Harris is a cop” has been reclaimed, with an exaggerated wink, by supporters eager to fashion it into a winning general-election pitch.

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☆ ‘Cringe’: Ex-GOP adviser weighs in on Vance’s ‘Diet Mountain Dew’ remark
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Jennifer Smith | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Kamala Harris shouldn't go too far on the 'brat' meme stuff
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewKamala Harris is enjoying a moment in the viral sun — with her #KHive surging into the mainstream, admitting they've been "coconut pilled." One coconut emoji too many, and Harris HQ could be veering into cringe, losing the coveted brain rot demographic. They've already started to try to capitalize on the memes — a little: The Harris presidential campaign's official TikTok account posted Charli XCX's Sunday tweet that said: "Kamala is brat." The Kamala HQ bio also reads "ready to provide context," which is a reference to another Harris-related meme. Advertisementkamala IS brat — Charli (@charli_xcx) July 22, 2024(If the coconut and brat references don't make sense to you, a brief explanation: Brat is a reference to Charli XCX's latest album, which has a girls-just-wanna-have-judgment-free-fun vibe.

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☆ Asia-Pacific markets fall as rotation out of tech continues; Japan headline inflation holds steady
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Lim Hui Jie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Asia-Pacific markets fell on Friday as investors on Wall Street continued to rotate out of tech stocks and take profits from the rally in equities in recent weeks. "There's some profit taking," said Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments. Over in Asia, traders will be on the lookout for continued rotation out of tech in the region after chip-related stocks plunged Thursday across Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Japan's inflation came in at 2.8% for June unchanged from May, while core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, accelerated to 2.6%, from 2.5%. However, the core inflation reading was lower than the 2.7% expected by a Reuters poll of economists.

Persons: Keith Buchanan Organizations: Wall, Globalt Investments Locations: Tokyo . Asia, Pacific, Asia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea

☆ Donald Glover's son Legend is featured on his new Childish Gambino album. Here's everything to know about his wife and kids.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Most notably, the 10th track, "Can You Feel Me," includes a feature from Glover's eldest son, Legend. "I think grace is undervalued in the world," Glover told The New York Times. Glover shares three children with his wife, Michelle White: Legend, Drake, and DonaldGlover was initially linked to White in 2016. "This song is dedicated to everybody in this crowd and my young son, Legend," Glover said onstage before performing "Baby Boy," per Billboard. Two years later, Glover revealed he and White had welcomed a third child "during the coronavirus."

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☆ The 'Gen Z Boss and a mini' trend is taking off on TikTok. A lawyer says it's a lesson in how not to use social media.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementOne of those accounts was run by Australian brand Tbh Skincare. But while many considered it simple, lighthearted fun, the skincare company ran into trouble when its video spread farther afield. The Tbh Skincare women didn't take the criticism lying down, posting two more videos. In Australia, where Tbh Skincare is based, mental health is covered by a workplace's insurance. The internet is forever, and young workers should assume anything posted will be visible to future employees, Hart said.

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☆ ‘Gen Z boss and a mini,’ explained: The new TikTok trend celebrates style and sass
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Gen Z boss and a mini”? If you can think of two catchy descriptors that encapsulate your outfit and unique aura, you’ve got enough material to get in on the latest TikTok style trend. Some TikTokers are using the trend to celebrate their own style, their unique shine too bright to share with others in the same video. The brand even capitalized on its viral fame with a “Gen Z boss and a mini” bundle of skin care products. Corporate cringe though it may be, the trend is already paying off for the squad of TikTok-savvy skin care mavens.

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☆ I've been a recruiter for the corporate elite for 25 years. These 10 mistakes can cost even the most brilliant candidate their dream job.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Deepali Vyas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewAfter nearly 25 years of headhunting for the corporate elite, I've seen it all. But I've seen too many candidates rest on their laurels, assuming their existing Rolodex (yes, some still have those) is enough. I've seen it happen, and it's not pretty. I've seen candidates lowball themselves out of insecurity, and others demand outrageous packages out of hubris. I've seen candidates ghost companies after multiple rounds of interviews or respond poorly to rejection.

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☆ All the cringe and competence in Biden's speech to save his seat
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Erica Star Domena | Tamara Lindstrom | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Between flubs and misspeaks, Biden showed in-depth knowledge of world affairs. Was his speech enough to save his campaign? This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account?

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☆ Americans are overwhelmingly embarrassed by both Trump and Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A report from the Pew Research Center found that Biden and Trump are seen as equally "embarrassing." Of those polled, 63% said each nominee was humiliatingVoters diverge on other aspects of Trump and Biden's personal conduct, like mean-spiritedness. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . According to the report, 63% of those polled find both Biden and Trump "embarrassing." On top of that, at least ⅓ of each candidate's supporters say their own nominee is humiliating, with 37% of Biden supporters saying so compared to 33% of Trump supporters.

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☆ Joe Arden's voice made him the hottest narrator in romance. Then, a sexting scandal turned BookTok against him.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Anna Merlan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +34 min

But there's no denying that a large number of people, mostly women, found Joe Arden's voice to be exceedingly hot: smooth, insistent, husky, occasionally dropping to a seductive growl. Arden's voice made him one of the most popular romance audiobook narrators of his generation. Last year, a promising new romance author reached out to Blue Nose Audio and received a reply from Joe Arden. "My working name of 'Joe Arden,' has always been just that, a professional persona that labeled my career," he added. For good measure, they dug up Cronin's abandoned trademark application for the Joe Arden moniker, first filed in 2020.

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☆ I moved back to the US after 25 years in the UK. People abroad were more polite than Americans, but I never quite fit in there.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Dana Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I'd been living in the UK for 25 years, but when the pandemic kicked off in March 2020, I decided it was time to go home. It wasn't until returning that I realized how British I'd become and that "home" was more difficult to define. AdvertisementIn the UK, the small peppers fit into small houses, and the food was closer to its natural form due to strict food laws. Four years after moving back to the US, I'm grateful for the personal space, the "yes!" But I do miss the cultivated hedgerows of the UK and the quiet, more reserved style of its people.

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