2025 ins/outs

in

• using social media/the internet like it's 2007-2015
• forums/blogs/etc
• increase in leaving phones at home
• road trips
• reading. especially physical books. and especially reading together
• calling just to say hi
• grunge/indie sleaze for real this time
• being direct. 
• being nice to your friends
• virtual game nights
• loving jasey!
• not speaking to anyone who has ever wronged me specifically
• posting youtube videos for your friends 
• uncomfortable conversations that will bring us closer in the end
• real y2k aesthetic (the ugly kind)
• bartering. trading. favors for nothing in return
• mixing metals when you wear jewelry
• harmless white lies 

out

• cringe culture
• "cancelling" people
• clean girl aesthetic
• undefined boundaries
• speaking to people who have wronged me
• my friends living far away from me :(
• being mean
• leading people on
• minimalism
• fake y2k
• ATHLEISURE
• coquette 
• ai in all forms
• "vanilla girl aesthetic" ?????!!!!!!!
• putting the word aesthetic after everything
• microtrends
• overconsumption 
• dropshipping websites (temu, shein, etc.)
• oversharing/therapyspeak.