Doja Cat vs Noah Schnapp 👽
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Yesterday Rubes and I were in despo need for some healthy food, so we went to the nearest grocer and bought three nectarines, only to find that they cost us $13!!! We pissed ourselves when we saw them getting scanned but did that awkward thing where we’d already committed and had to go through with it. To be fair, they were the most incredible nectarines we’ve ever had in our lives, but still… $13.
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Doja Cat has beef with Noah Schnapp
Texas woman argues unborn baby counts as passenger after fine
A big Casa Amor Debrief
WTF is Gorpcore?
We weren’t meant to see this many beautiful faces
How many years does it take to break down a generic plastic bottle?
Doja Cat has beef with Noah Schnapp
Doja Cat picking a fight with Noah Schnapp was not on my 2022 bingo card, but I guess Stranger Things have happened (get it????) In case you missed it, Doja Cat has been quite vocally thirsting over Joseph Quinn, who plays Eddie on Stranger Things, for example when she tweeted this back in May:
And also things like how Eddies good looks are ‘criminal’ etc. Stan behaviour really, and so true.
But she decided to take things a little bit further last week when she DM’ed 17-year-old Noah Schnapp (who plays Will on Stranger Things) saying this:
Noah, who’s pretty good at this whole ‘internet’ thing, and is a kind of iconic shitposter, then put these ✨seemingly harmless✨ DMs in a TikTok video, thinking it was funny (and because Doja had already been public with her crush on Joseph.) But Doja did not think it was funny. She went on TikTok live to vent “about the whole fuckin' Noah Schnapp thing” and said:
“First let’s be chill about it,” she began. “To be fair, this is like, a kid. Noah is like, I don’t know how old he is, but he’s not even over—like there’s no way he’s over like 21.”
“When you’re that young, you make mistakes. You do dumb shit. I’m like trying to be super fair. You say dumb shit, you fuck up relationships with people. You make mistakes. You’re supposed to do stuff like that so that you know not to do it in the future. I did my share of fuck-ups so that I don’t fuck-up again.”
“The fact that Noah did that. Like, went and posted a private conversation between me and him is so unbelievably socially unaware and whack. That’s like borderline snake shit, that’s like weasel shit.
“And I’m not saying that encapsulates his entire personality. Maybe he is, like, a whole snake. But I didn’t see him that way. I made an assumption that he was gonna be chill about it, and he went and shared information that I didn’t feel comfortable with him sharing.”
Like... yeah, maybe he shouldn't have posted the DM's - but the boy is 17 and probs thought that Doja's Very Public Thirsting for Joseph was a green light? I mean - I love Doja Cat's music, but this ✨odd✨ behaviour from her is kinda in line with some of her other behaviour lately - like when she got angry at her fans and said that she was ‘quitting music’ - or even how her Twitter name is ‘I’m better than you’ and her bio is ‘if you use stan speak you're a fucking loser get your fucking life together how embarrassing...’
Anyway, the vibe of the internet is that Noah is a kid, and Doja often does whack shit on her TIkTok and she should kinda just… go easy on him.
PS, this is my fave headline from the whole saga: Doja Cat Not Sure if Noah Schnapp Sharing DMs About Joseph Quinn Is ‘Snake Sh-t,’ But it Is ‘Weasel Sh-t’
Texas woman argues unborn baby counts as passenger after fine
Queen energy. So, Brandy Bottone - a 32-year-old Texas woman - was fined for driving in a high occupancy lane (where you have to have at least two passengers in the car.) The thing is, she's also pregnant, so she argued that, "given the overturning of the constitutional right to an abortion by the Supreme Court, her unborn child counted as a person."
Texas has one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, but while "the penal code recognises an unborn baby as a person, current laws surrounding transportation in the state do not."
Texas wants to have their cake and eat it too, and I kinda love this from Brandy!!!!
We need to talk about the fallout from Casa Amor
And we did - in our latest Love Island debrief which you NEED to go and listen to!!
A Love Island Debrief: Cheating & Tit Sucking — open.spotify.com
Luce and Liv debrief episode 28-33 of Love Island!
WTF is Gorpcore?
Spoiler alert: it’s another unnecessary name for a trend that will pass soon. Gorp stands for “good ole’ raisins and peanuts” and is basically ‘camper chic.’ You know how like… cargo pants and puffer jackets and vests and hiking boots and… all of that. I don’t really care about the fashion side of this, to be honest, I just liked that ‘Gorp’ stands for Good Ole Raisins and peanuts.
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We weren’t meant to see this many beautiful faces
This is a really fascinating piece I read in The Face (ironic name for a publication writing about faces, I know) all about something they call ‘beauty overstimulation.’
“It’s now easier than ever to edit our digital avatars. Apps like FaceTune, Snapchat and TikTok offer subtle face tweaks (you know the ones: slim nose with a shiny button tip, subtle blush, pouty lips), meaning you can rework your look with a single swipe. This, of course, is nothing new. Ever since early magazine imagery and the advent of Photoshop, people have worried about what retouching images would do to us as a society. But now, if social media algorithms are aggressively pushing glossy, symmetrical faces to the front of our feeds, is there a danger of digitally overloading our brains with beauty?”
I know it’s not a hot-take to be sitting here saying ‘filters are bad!’ ‘Instagram isn’t real!’ but it does feel good to often remind ourselves that even the most no-make-upy make-up still takes people hours and that all these companies building/ using/ promoting filters and editing tools are literally making money off us by making us insecure!!!
How many years does it take to break down a generic plastic bottle?
Yesterday we did a quiz with the WONDERFUL Ethique in place of our mundane poll, and did you know it takes 450 YEARS FOR A GENERIC PLASTIC BOTTLE TO BREAK DOWN??? That shit is honestly madness.
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