Hot Topics | July 2nd
Culture
The world was collectively shocked and upset upon learning that Olympic newcomer Sha’Carri Richardson may not be able to compete in the Olympics after her record-breaking race. However, there still may be hope for the young athlete could compete this year, even if it was not the event she qualified for.
Zola is a movie created entirely off of content found in a Twitter thread that took the Internet by storm years ago. It was recently made into a movie and is fascinating to see how something started entirely on a social media platform has been brought to life on the big screen!
Fashion
The fashion media landscape is quickly changing. And with that comes the change of organization structure, and what editorial roles actually look like now.
Rent The Runway has been unfortunately known to not have the best work culture. However, they took a step back the past year and a half to really reset and rebuild for success from the ground up to face their future.
Social
TikTok has announced it’ll now allow creators to post up to 3-minutes of video (3x the original 60-second limit). They were in beta testing in December, but it’s now rolling out over the next month to the entire network.
Instagram is testing changes to make Instagram more like TikTok and less of a photo sharing app. Will they be able to differentiate enough and dominate the market again, or do consumers like have separate purposes on separate social media apps?