Silence, Brand! 03.03.25

🦀 OSCARS + $19 strawberries + MTV Unplugged streaming + AI accents + AI phone + GlamBOT tyranny + Vegas Sphere's mascot + Reddit co-founder bids for TikTok + One Piece x Lakers + $825 fan merch 🦀

🦀 ahoy, fellow bottom-dwellers 🦀
we’ve got red carpet wreckage
and gold-plated scraps from the algo’s abyss

let’s wade in:

fresh catch:

• what all went down at the Oscars

• Disney’s irritating customers with their new 'surge pricing' strategy

• why we love to overshare

trends:

• The “Kiss Me Through the Phone” trend makes for a chic car photo-op

• The “cmon, say it!” trend has us ready to scream the lyrics to our fav song

and don’t even get us started on…

• $19 strawberries: proof we are living in a capitalist aquarium of diminishing returns

• MTV Unplugged is streaming for the first time in 20+ years. better late than never!

• $825 Fan Merch– one question: why Balenciaga???

clack your claws,
polish your shells—
Hollywood’s high tide recedes,
but down here, the current never stops….
TO THE LINKSSSSSSSSSSSS 🦀

The Tyranny of the GlamBOT Must End (Vulture)
Sebastian Stan's lack of enthusiasm in a recent GlamBOT video at the 2025 Golden Globes highlighted the challenges celebrities face with this press line obligation. The inventor of the GlamBOT, Cole Walliser, has become a beloved figure in the media landscape, but the contraption's effectiveness remains questionable, with only a handful of celebrities truly mastering it.

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