Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
Buzz-watching site BuzzFeed just shot itself in the foot by featuring Cuddle Parties … a trend that Gawker mocked two and a half years ago.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Ivy
December 1st, 2006 at 11:46 am
If you are on a trend-spotting website to see what’s hot with the kids, then you deserve to be 2 years behind.
*By “you”, I don’t mean “Ariel”, I mean the collective “you”.
Ariel
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Quick clarification about BuzzFeed: they’re not watching youth trends, they’re watching trends in web coverage.