Consumer Diaries: Luxury Candles to Beach Necessities

Consumer Diaries: Luxury Candles to Beach Necessities

Welcome to Coveteur’s Consumer Diaries!As our co-dependent relationship with the algorithm deepens with time, the bottomless scroll has turned us all into 24/7 consumers. As we consume varying degrees of news, targeted ads, trailers, shopping, and user-generated content all accordioned together in an endless feed—our consumer habits have reached a fever pitch. Each week we will be untangling the top news stories of the week and asking Coveteur staff members about what they consumed this past week.

Weekly Wrap

This week in culture news…

Covid is spiking again, Taylor Swift is releasing another “(Taylor’s Version)” album, Aidan and Carrie are back together—feels like we’re living in a groundhog day in culture news. This past weekend, Vogue faced a bit of a technical snafu when one of their Beauty Secrets YouTube videos linked out to an internal Google Doc of their talent’s YouTube commissions. Exposed on TikTok and analyzed to pieces on Reddit, this information breach is enough to give social media managers nightmares for years to come. In celebrity news, Megan Fox announced the upcoming release of her book of poetry titled, “Pretty Boys Are Poisonous,” which promises to dive into her personal relationships as well as the decades of misogyny she faced in Hollywood. I am praying the podcasters behind Celebrity Book Club have already placed their pre-orders. A few days ago, the VMA nominations were announced and news outlets were quick to notice that women are dominating the categories. All the nominees for Video of the Year and Artist of the Year are female or non-binary. Glad to see the industry adopting the zeitgeisty “he’s just Ken” attitude, but isn’t it time we reconsidered the gender categories of awards shows?

Consumer Diaries

From podcasts to shopping to media, we asked Coveteur staff to send their top recommendations for what they consumed this past week.

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