Too Little, Too Late Late 👋
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This weekend went by really quickly and I did VERY little. Which is kinda the best thing for me because I love Mondays (yuck I know) and I love a slow weekend!! I played tennis on Saturday morning and then arrived home to the boys of the flat having bought home TWO ENTIRE BOXES OF SAUCE HOME FROM A SAUCE SHOW THEY WENT TO:
I love them and I hate them. Then I did some beading and had some drinks & tacos with my flatties & finally started watching Insecure - I love it!!
Sunday was literally spent cleaning and dusting and re-organising - do you ever get in those moods where you literally have to/ want to put everything you own in its rightful place/ throw away everything you don’t need? That happens to me about once every six months and that was the bulk of my Sunday. I did a lil op-shopping with flattie Flo and had a bubble tea with flattie Hayden and then cooked dinner for all the other flatties and it was a lovely and relaxing day. I also just caught up on a lot of sleep.
Speaking of sleep - newsy reader Olly sent me a story about them dreaming about me. (I know I bang on about living in your head rent-free but I didn’t think I would seep into your subconscious this much):
“Hi Luce (or should it be Lucy since I don’t actually know you??),
I hope you find this funny more than creepy but you were in my dream last night! I saw a photo of what you look like ages ago, but in the dream you didn’t quite look like that, more as though your voice had its own actress?
I write down my dreams asap when I can, so thought it might be a random story to give you a laugh on this cold autumn day (it’s super chilly today in Hobart)."
Here’s what Olly wrote:
"I was with the SYSCA team and Luce passed out while on a huge rope swing on this big green hill (like the fun ones from childhood where you think you’re going to die when you flip at the end) and she fell down the hill, and I went and did first aid on her, asking her name, if she knew where she was etc and then we got her water and she sat back up and got better.
And then the whole thing was like a season finale and it turned bad and all the students went crazy (suddenly it was a mix of Sex Education and Yellowjackets as the Sex Ed kids had been left in a remote, abandoned abbey-like school) and got like reall6 bad behaved, sex-driven and hella violent. It was scary.
Luce ran away with her friend’s boyfriend (who was also her ex-boyfriend) whilst holding a shell.”
I mean, it’s nice to know that I’m seeping into your dreams, even if I’m a home-wrecker in them :P
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Too little, too Late Late
Simp DAOS
Paul Mescal and Phoebe Bridgers might be engaged
Have you heard of smoking toad?
No Way to Say Goodbye
Is aioli just glowed up mayo?
Too little, too Late Late
Over the weekend James Corden announced that he’s leaving The Late Late Show in 2023 to pursue other adventures - like writing (I’d like to see him try and write a daily newsy - it’s an adventure all right!!) This departure announcement comes at the same time as Ellen wrapped filming on her final episode of The Ellen Show (if you wanna know why she cancelling it, you should listen to this.) Anyway, after seeing these two stories it made me think about the future of talk shows.
We already know that talk shows are being optimised to be chopped up into nice little segments and chucked on Youtube (which is the only way I, and I bet the majority of Gen Z consumers know anything about these talk shows), so I feel like that (or TikTok) is the future of the platform... but who’s going to host them?
You’ve got Youtubers like David Dobrik saying that their dream is to be a late-night host, and you’ve got TikTokers like Noah Beck literally copying and pasting carpool karaoke already (he calls it Beckseat Driver which is actually a fucking good name for it). We also have Ziwe who I HOPE is the blueprint for the next era of talkshows. Then we have celebrities like Drew Barrymore and Kelly Clarkson taking up some of the space - but I still feel like they’re reaching audiences a bit older than me (or us.) So who’s next? There’s some sort of gap to be filled. If they get the right person to fill it will be we see young people sitting down to tune into a full episode of late-night as it airs, on actual TV?? (imagine that!) Or are talk shows going to morph into something else altogether? I guess we’ll find out.
Ellen De-Not-So-Generous? - The Shit Show — open.spotify.com
As of late, it really does seem like Ellen has been having a moment in the media - but not in the way we are used to. From the not so nice twitter threads, to the deeply worrying reports about workplace culture, racism, and sexual misconduct occurring behind the scenes of her show, Luce and Rubes deep dive into it all.
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Simp DAOS
As if Web3 wasn’t embarro enough, there’s an actual thing called Simp DAOs. Now, you’ve heard me talk about DAOs time and time again - they’re Decentralised Autonomous Organisations, or, in normal people's words, groups of people with no leader who use Discord to make decisions about things - they’re meant to act like companies/entities but where everyone gets to have a say. Right now DAOs are used for mostly just fun and unimportant things, but in the future maybe we’ll see them adopted a bit more widely? Who knows? (I remain cautiously optimistic, but only coz life is more fun that way.) Now back to Simp DAOs.
Simp DAOs are designed to play off the relationship between a female influencer and her fans:
“So-called simp DAOs are oriented around the relationship between female influencers and their fan bases. Typical Simp DAO members, or “simps”, are men seeking to express their admiration for, and attract the attention of, the influencer to whom the group is dedicated.”
The way this works (in theory) is that a female influencer/celeb allows her fanbase to buy a token and then be able to have a say in some of their business decisions - like whether they sell ads on Instagram or not. Oh, and said influencer is known as the ‘simp queen’ - I feel like that’s important.
But all of the above assumes that the influencer in question knows they have a DAO.
Some influencers/celebs have people creating Simp DAOs on behalf of them, like DuaLipaDAO, which I can guarantee it’s not run by her, or AmouranthDAO, which is for Kaitlyn Siragusa a well-known Twitch streamer, model and cosplayer, and says ‘the‘Amouranth DAO’ was made without our knowledge/approval.”
And sometimes, men are pretending to be women (via their avatars) as a way of making more money/ being able to start their own Simp DAO. The fact that crypto bros are pretending to be women via virtual avatars in order to make money tells me that there is a bigger conversation to be had around gender identity in the Web3/ the metaverse, but I don’t think we have time for that today.
But we can agree that none of this sounds good right???
If you’re making a Simp DAO yourself, it feels like it’s kinda another way that influencers feel like they have to sell every part of themselves in order to make money. If they’ve had a Simp DAO built without their consent, then it’s someone just capitalising off their likeness. Or, it’s a dude impersonating them. For me, Simp DAOs are just the latest embarro spice to be added to the recipe of Web3, which is making it taste worse and worse. It’s all fine though.
Paul Mescal and Phoebe Bridgers might be engaged
This is a big deal to me. It’s not confirmed. That’s all.
Have you heard of smoking toad?
Maybe I’m quite naive about the world of psychedelics or maybe toad isn’t a well-known thing, but I read this piece in the New Yorker over the weekend about a dude called Octavio Rettig AKA ‘The Pied Piper Of Toads.’ Basically, he has a sorta cultish following and reckons that by smoking the substance from a certain type of toad he can help you overcome other drug addictions. Or, you could die. This whole piece is fascinating and you should read it.
No Way to Say Goodbye
Content warning: Death. I cried, and you might too if you read this.
Over the weekend I also read this piece in The New York Times about a woman saying goodbye to her mother (who she lost to Covid), via text, and the things we lose when we can’t see our loved ones to say goodbye. I’m warning you, it’s sad.
So you don’t know what a bikkie is?
Or a biccie, or a biccy, or a bickie? It’s a biscuit, or a cookie. Simple as that!
Is aioli just glowed up mayo?
I think yes - add some garlic to mayo and it feels like aioli. And I’m not mad, it’s one of the world's most successful rebrands. When I asked you though:
6% said they’re the same thing
26% when you add garlic they’re the same thing
68% said they’re not the same, actually
WTF is with Justin Bieber's new song? It's giving Lil Dicky (Spotify)
Elon Musk Thinks Buying Twitter Isn’t Rocket Science (The Shit Show)
What Your Jealousy Is Really Telling You (Culture Vulture)
CRYPTO IS WINNING, AND BITCOIN DIEHARDS ARE FURIOUS ABOUT IT (The Verge)
What Is Histrionic Personality Disorder? (The Cut)
The Truth About Slushies Must Come Out (The Atlantic)
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