The pandemic spawned years of sweeping predictions about the “next thing” — either a radically changed society, or a total return to “normal.” The fact that neither has come to pass has created a sense of exhaustion with prediction itself. But commentators can’t resist predicting future trends, even if these predictions have become increasingly marginal and absurd

Reaction videos are pleasantly numbing — they ease the constant pressure to “react” to people and events online. This sort of content arrives to us pre-metabolized: all we have to do is absorb it