It should come as no surprise that in an era where anything is up for monetisation people have turned moments of their personal and private lives into jobs. Romantic relationships have become commodified on social media with the rise of successful and lucrative YouTube channels and social media accounts centred around couples. In commodifying their…
If you enjoy sitting on your couch or bed mindlessly watching reality tv filled with rich people having petty arguments then I am pretty sure you have seen or at the very least heard about Netflix’s new reality tv show — ‘Young, Famous & African‘. ‘Young, Famous & African’ follows what is presumed to be…
In all of the crossovers I have ever seen over multiple cinematic universes, few of them make as much sense to me as the inclusion of Indian femmes and in a show focused on an illustrious marriage market such as Bridgerton season 2. The Netflix series — Bridgerton — follows marriage obsessed debutants and their…
A few days ago, the co-creator of the Ethereum blockchain, Vitalik Buterin, was featured on the cover of TIME magazine “fighting for crypto’s future”. To summarise the article, Buterin spoke about how the blockchain was meant to be a decentralised platform with its currency — ETH — being an egalitarian answer and in some ways,…
Rac(ism), Sex(ism) — We just can’t seem to get away from the plagued and violent nuances that exists in the “real” world within the Metaverse can we? Upon my continuous research on all things metaverse, crypto and NFTs, it was brought to my attention that the virtual world is in fact also racist, homophobic and…
Atlanta season 3 is set to return to our screens this week, today to be exact, on 24 March. Taking its final bow with a double feature that sees season 4 premiering this year as well; the series created by rapper, actor and writer Donald Glover closed up SXSW. A lot of early reviews are…
“The nerve of Jane Campion to suggest her journey is harder than that of two Black women who’ve overcome racism, sexism and classism in one of the whitest, richest sports in the world to become CHAMPIONS again and again is why I have trust issues with white feminists.” Drew Dixon Oh Jane, Jane, Jane… why…
High peasant, premium mediocre, domestic cozy and thrift store (favela chic) are the four aesthetic movements theorised by writers Venkatesh Rao and Nils Gilman to capture the cultural visual age we are currently living in. Picture a graph with a y-axis and an x-axis. On top of the y-axis are the words ‘high cost’ and…
Artist Mike Winkelmann, otherwise known as ‘Beeple’, hadn’t sold an artwork of his for more than $100 prior to 2021 despite diligently creating an artwork every day for 12 years and having over 2.5 million followers on Instagram. However, that all changed on March 11th of 2021. Beeple’s NFT ‘Everydays: The First 5,000 Days’ (2021)…
*Dear reader please note that this piece is a collage — in words — of still forming thoughts and provocations “But the war goes on; and we will have to bind up for years to come the many, sometimes ineffaceable wounds that the colonialist onslaught has inflicted on our people. That imperialism which today is…
Since December — after my brother and I attempted to attend an event thrown by a youth culture/street culture group in collaboration with a youth centred media organisation — I have been replaying and rehashing a certain situation in my mind. The youth/street cultural group claims to represent the youth/streets — it’s run by the…
Shit could get menacin’, frightenin’, find help Sometimes I scare myself, myself Shit could get menacin’, frightenin’, find help Sometimes I scare myself, myself Kanye West, “Yikes” from Ye “The whole thing is just psychically very dark, energetically confusing. It sounds a lot like classic Kanye.” Shares journalist, cultural writer and co-author of Black Futures,…
