I hope the cost of living goes down

Bonjour,

Some live reporting from the Boys Club discord on this beautiful Friday:

Anyways, some club news:

• Headed to Singapore on Monday, see you at our brunch with Harpie and our community supporters Leather.io, Alchemy, and Serotonin. RSVP here.

• Check the latest Feelings Check-In to hear us yap about friendship and Instagram.

ily,

Writer: Natasha (insta)
Editor: Deana

This week, a famous YouTuber shocked followers. Nikocado Avocado is a creator known for his videos where he eats excessively on camera. This is a genre of content called Mukbang, where creators film themselves talking to camera while gorging on an ungodly amount of food. It’s often live-streamed and personally...

But Nikocado Avocado reached PMF with a subscriber base of 4.38 million and over 700 videos, totaling 882,741,082 views of this style of content.

Then, on September 6th, he released a video revealing that he had secretly lost 250 pounds and had been strategically posting prerecorded content for the past two years while losing the weight.

His own take was that he is, quote, 'the villain,' and 'the joke's on you,' saying he's been 'monitoring ants on an ant farm.' To be honest, it's giving TSA agent power-trip energy.

As you can imagine, the internet had feelings, that ranged from:

and also…

As much as this whole story makes my skin crawl, it's a perfect example of how deeply disconnected online identities can be from lived realities—and how dangerous that can be if we aren’t awake and alive to this truth in our online habits. If forced to have an additional take, I think…