I’m a sucker for decline-ist content. This is good 

IS THIS THE WORST-EVER ERA OF AMERICAN POP CULTURE?
https://archive.is/2QNas

I’ll spare you my editorialization and just share that I’m NYT Games friends with the 25 y/o culture critic in this article, Kieran Press-Reynolds. 

I saw on X he was posting crazy Mini times and messaged him. I didn’t even know his deal or that he had famous parents. In case you can’t tell I love to compete with people on little crosswords 

At one point it became an obsession in my family chat to see if I had “beat Kieran” 

He might be brain rotted but he whips at the Mini 🧠

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

katherinechampagne.com

I have the screenshots because of course I told him he had become an object of fixation and my whole family thought he was a crossword God

I can confirm culture peaked around 1994. Been headed down ever since.  Pretty much started around MTV’s Real World hitting the air.

I’d say it was May 1994, just before season 3 in SF.

Moderate-to-severe symptoms.


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I’d say it was May 1994, just before season 3 in SF. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World:_San_Francisco