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pablo9306 · 7 months

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Social media challenges and their effects on us

For this blog I will be exploring six different social media challenges and their effects on us, the challenges on this list will be from the least harmful to the most starting with the Skull Breaker Challenge some details of the challenge: This challenge gained attention in 2020. It involved three people standing in a line, with the two outer people tricking the middle person into jumping into the air before kicking their legs out from under them. This resulted in the middle person falling violently to the ground. Ironically for the given name, it’s still the least harmful challenge on this list, basically the effects of the challenge are super dangerous as falling violently to the ground can result in head injuries, broken bones, concussions, and other physical trauma. So far it’s already really bad but the next challenge is one we have probably all heard of already, which is also known as the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge some details of the challenge: This challenge gained popularity in 2015 after Kylie Jenner, a big social media influencer, revealed plump lips. People online attempted to achieve similar results by using suction or pressure to enlarge their lips, often resulting in painful bruising or injuries. This challenge is one of the older ones on the list but is still being used as a challenge for social media. In severe cases, it can cause lip damage, burst blood vessels, lip deformation, and even infections. which is all horrible consequences for a challenge.

Next up on the list is the Bird Box Challenge some details about the origins: This challenge was inspired by the popular Netflix movie "Bird Box," people attempted to perform various tasks while blindfolded, mimicking the characters in the film who had to navigate the world while blindfolded to avoid a supernatural threat. This challenge posed significant safety risks as some people engaged in activities such as driving, cooking, or moving around their environment without their sense of sight. This challenge was something you could easily do and get a lot of attention on social media, the effect it has on us is the fact that while driving we need to see the damn road, same goes for cooking as you could cut a finger off. this challenge and the last are tied in terms of danger in my opinion but getting into a car accident or losing a hand is far worse in my opinion. Now, these are where the challenges get interesting and more dangerous, as the next one being the Tide Pod Challenge some insight to the challenge: This challenge was gaining popularity in 2018 and involved people, mostly teenagers, filming themselves biting into or even eating laundry detergent pods, which are toxic if ingested. Ingesting these substances can lead to nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing, chemical pneumonia, and even life-threatening conditions some of those reasons are why the challenge is so low on the list, as these consequences affect the rest of your life.

Next up on the list is the Fire Challenge a little insight: This challenge involved people dousing themselves in flammable substances and setting themselves on fire. The goal was to quickly extinguish the flames. Some effects on us were when this challenge gained popularity severe burns can cause long-term damage physically, requiring extensive medical treatment and rehabilitation. In some cases, the injuries could be fatal. As well, when people started to light themselves on fire trying to extinguish the flames quickly is challenging, and having those injuries for the rest is horrible. Now, for the last one being so low was because it was not something funny or something where everyone can get up and laugh it off, that is the Blue Whale Challenge. Some insight to it: This challenge originated on social media platforms and reportedly led participants through a series of increasingly dangerous and self-harming tasks that got harder and harder over 50 days. The final task was to commit suicide. the effects it had on us is that people would do anything for clout, this challenge was just a long SAW trap in my opinion, this challenge exploited vulnerable people, mostly teens and had them go through psychologically manipulative experiences, basically resembling the horror of the traps in the SAW movies.

You don’t even win or anything you just got a few likes. It even normalizes dangerous behaviors. This shows us how far people will go just for clout. In conclusion, these social media challenges have significant effects on people and society. Physically, they lead to injuries and health complications and, psychologically, they manipulate people and can result in distress. Societally, they normalize dangerous behaviors and influence vulnerable people, especially teens. By implementing stricter guidelines, raising awareness, and focusing on a safe digital environment, we can minimize the harm caused by these challenges.

#social media #challenges

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dedicatedtodance · 4 months

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National Dance Radio Airplay

For the week ending January 20, 2024

Body Moving ---Eliza Rose, Calvin Harris -1

Saving Up ---Dom Dolla -2

Drums---James Hype, Kim Petras -8

Atmosphere ---Fisher, Kita Alexander -4

Both ---Tiesto, 21 Savage, BiA -3

Better Off (Alone Part III) --Alan Walker, Dash Berlin, VIKKSTAR -7

Krazy ---VASSY - 10

Strangers --Kenya Grace -6

Take My Chance---MK -11

Water--Tyla, Marshmello -18

Past Life --Felix Jaehn & Jonas Blue -12

Echo ---RSCL X REPIET X Julia Kleijn -13

Real Love ---Martin Garrix & LLOYISO -5

Jungle---ALOK, The Chainsmokers, Mae Stephens -21

Lay Low -Toby Romeo, 220KID, IZZY BIZU -17

When We Were Young --David Guetta, Kim Petras -18

I'll Be There--Robin Schulz, Rita Ora, Tiago PZK -23

A Lesson In Chemistry --Anabel Englund -9

Superhero ---AUDIEN -25

Houdini---Dua Lipa -20

Tension --Kylie Minogue --15 >>>>

I'm Only Here For The Beat --Madelline -36

On My Way ---Kaskade -29

Heart Still Beating ---Nathan Dawe, Bebe Rexha -30

Easy--3LAU, XIRA -28

Young & Foolish ---Loud Luxury, Charlieonafriday -39

Mwaki ---Zerb,Sofiya Nzau -35

Ray Of Solar --Swedish House Mafia -19

Greedy--Tate McRae --38

Over Now --Seven Lions, Above & Beyond, Opposite the Other -34

(It Goes Like) Nanana --33

More Baby ---Chris Lake, Aluna -31 >>>>

Tell It To My Heart --CASH CASH, Taylor Dayne -14

Fall Again --HAYLA -41

On My Love--Zara Larsson, David Guetta -22

Feels Like Us---GT_OFICE, Alwz Snny, Robbie Rosen -37

I Believe In Love--Peggy Gou f/ Lenny Kravitz -47

***Overdrive---Ofenbach -101

Prada--CASSO X RAYE X D-BLOCK EUROPE -44

Need Your Love---Felix Cartal & Karen Harding -24

Pull You Closer---Sistek X Sadie Rose Van -42

Asking---Sonny Fodera & MK -40 >>>>

Love --BUNT. -32

Little Bit Yours --Galantis, Hannah Boleyn -50

Rule The World ---Tiesto, Tears For Fears, NIIKO & SWAE -43

***All My Life ---Tiesto, Fast Boy -152

Car Keys ---ALOK, AVA MAX -26 >>>>

***Hold On Me --NOTD f/ Emei -52

DNA --Billy Gillies f/ Hannah Boleyn -48 >>>>

Rush ---Troye Sivan -27 >>>>

#dedicatedtodance

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weaversweek · 1 year

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#Uncool500 - the big list (the top end)

Follow-up to (the bottom part) and (the bit in the middle)

Remember the #Uncool50 I did in October and November? A lot of other people did it as well, and contest sponsor @[email protected] has compiled a full #Uncool500 from our nominations.

This is the last of three posts, songs that got six or more nominations. Part 1 takes us through two and three noms, part 2 the fours and fives.

Each nomination was worth 10 points, but we could each nominate four singles for 11 points, and one song for 12 points.

Ties are broken in a lot of ways. Acts that had a lot of songs nominated went ahead of acts with just the one big hit. As the project is inspired by "This is Uncool", a handbook of great singles from the last quarter of the 20th century. Anything in that book gravitated to the top of the tie; anything from this century followed, and songs from the 20th century and not in the book came further down.

60 pts 108 Can't be sure - The Sundays 107 E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite 106 Pump up the volume - M|A|R|R|S 105 Video games - Lana del Rey 104 Crash - The Primitives 103 The sun always shines on tv - A-ha 102 Little fluffy clouds - The Orb 101 BOB (Bombs over Baghdad) - Outkast 100 Bela Lugosi's dead - Bauhaus 99 Paper planes - MIA 98 Make me feel - Janelle Monaé 97 Bittersweet symphony - The Verve 96 Ms Jackson - Outkast 95 Cloudbusting - Kate Bush 94 Being boiled - Human League 93 Killer - Adamski 92 Heroes - David Bowie 91 O Superman - Laurie Anderson 90 Shot by both sides - Magazine 89 Loser - Beck 88 The message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 87 G'd save the queen - Sex Pistols

61 pts 86 Life in a northern town - Dream Academy 85 Yes - McAlmont & Butler 84 Smalltown boy - Bronski Beat 83 Getting away with it - Electronic 82 Levi Stubbs' tears - Billy Bragg 81 Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac 80 Slave to the rhythm - Grace Jones 79 Bring the noise - Public Enemy 78 Groove is in the heart - Deee-Lite 77 The mercy seat - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

62 pts 76 Blackstar - David Bowie 75 Hey ya! - Outkast 74 Geno - Sexist Midnight Runners 73 Fool's gold - The Stone Roses

63 pts 72 Babies - Pulp 71 Computer love - Kraftwerk 70 A forest - The Cure

64 pts 69 Teenage kicks - The Undertones

70 pts 68 Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood 67 Sabotage - The Beastie Boys 66 Freak like me - Sugababes 65 Sound and vision - David Bowie 64 Loaded - Primal Scream 63 Heart of glass - Blondie

71 pts 62 Fade to grey - Visage 61 Video killed the radio star - Buggles 60 Into the groove - Madonna 59 Take on me - A-ha 58 Come on Eileen - Sexist Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express 57 Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 56 Public image - Public Image Limited 55 Ever fallen in love - Buzzcocks 54 The killing moon - Echo and the Bunnymen 53 What time is love - The KLF 52 Hyperballad - Björk

72 pts 51 Cannonball - The Breeders 50 212 - Azealia Banks ft Lazy Jay 49 Can't get you out of my head - Kylie Minogue 48 Brimful of Asha - Cornershop 47 London calling - The Clash

73 pts 46 Protection - Massive Attack ft Tracey Thorn 45 Two tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

74 pts 44 Lost in music - Sister Sledge

76 pts 43 Always on my mind - Pet Shop Boys

80 pts 42 Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode 41 Glory box - Portishead 40 Motorcycle emptiness - Manic Street Preachers 39 Atomic - Blondie 38 Like a prayer - Madonna 37 Teardrop - Massive Attack 36 Senses working overtime - XTC

81 pts 35 How soon is now? - The Smiths 34 Ace of spades - Motörhead 33 Soon (Glider ep) - My Bloody Valentine 32 Firestarter - The Prodigy

83 pts 31 Freak scene - Dinosaur Jr

84 pts 30 I feel for you - Chaka Khan

85 pts 29 Life's what you make it - Talk Talk 28 West end girls - Pet Shop Boys

90 pts 27 1 thing - Amerie 26 Duel - Propaganda 25 There she goes - The La's

91 pts 24 Born slippy (nuxx) - Underworld

92 pts 23 Sign 'o' the times - Prince

93 pts 22 Ashes to ashes - David Bowie

94 pts 21 Ceremony - New Order

101 pts 20 Party fears two - The Associates

103 pts 19 Fight the power - Public Enemy 18 This charming man - The Smiths

110 pts 17 Tainted love - Soft Cell

112 pts 16 Another girl, another planet - The Only Ones 15 Biology - Girls Aloud

113 pts 14 Once in a lifetime - Talking Heads

123 pts 13 Buffalo stance - Neneh Cherry 12 Transmission - Joy Division

131 pts 11 Atmosphere - Joy Division

134 pts 10 When doves cry - Prince

143 pts 9 Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana

144 pts 8 Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

145 pts 7 Unfinished sympathy - Massive Attack

156 pts 6 Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

157 pts 5 Ghost town - The Specials

168 pts 4 Blue Monday - New Order

180 pts 3 Are "friends" electric? - Tubeway Army 2 Common people - Pulp

239 pts 1 I feel love - Donna Summer

So, by a massive margin, Donna Summer proves to be the pick of Music Twitter (primarily on the Isles Trans-Manche, as assessed during autumn 2022).

But there are other popular music surveys. What happens if we put the #Uncool500 up against the #Top2000 as voted by NPO Radio 2 listeners in the Netherlands?

That would be another post.......

Footnotes 71 - "The model" charted separately at 269. 53 - The 1990 version, not 1992's "America: what time is love?" 25 - Combines nominations for the 1995 and 1996 versions; they're so close in time that it may not be clear from nomination order

#uncool50 #uncool500 #pop music #chart #popular culture #poll #cultural capital #cool #what is cool #is this cool

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kittyfairyblog · 2 years

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Nov 9

Good morning from the dining room, this is your fav neko boy coming to you live. Sorry I haven’t been posting anything for a couple of days. I am up early around 10:50 because of my dog Kylie barking and getting trash out of my parents trash can. Meow this neko boy has been having a good time. I guess I will go through what has been happening the last couple of days. Nov 7 was a Monday I believe and with Monday’s it was interesting. The car windshield got replaced now we have to get a replacement driver’s side mirror for the car to be road safe. That came in yesterday Tuesday but not to us to the UPS Store because the UPS man didn’t deliever the package to us. Meow so that’s frustrating to my folks because they will have to make an extra trip out to the UPS Store to pick it up. A package for my mom arrived today I don’t know by UPS or Fedex because it arrived early when I was in the bedroom trying to sleep. Meow Tuesday nothing important happened yesterday. My two best friends one of them has been in the moving stages for a while getting ready to move into a new apartment and she has to be out of the house she is in by the end of this month. My other friend who is the sister to the one’s that is moving is helping out as well as working at her job. My other best friend has been working hard at online college and will graduate next month hopefully. Well that’s pretty much it for right now. I will update you all on what goes on the rest of the day. Until later folks. Bye.

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politicalbitcxh · 2 years

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Are we not talking about how we dish out millions of dollars to make movies while we are in the middle of a homeless epidemic, people are starving , half of us don’t have medical Insurance and can’t afford it? I know art is important but not more then a humans right to live? In fear of sounding like the “there are starving kids in Africa” argument, I want to genuinely ask.. America isn’t there a better why we could be Distributing our money?

No funding entertainment is not our main issue. But you can’t argue that a lot of the 1% are affiliated with the entertainment business or/and the people in it .

I just find it odd that somehow someone scratched up 200 million dollars to make another Spider-Man movie [and yes I know it was a good movie do not start with me] but the streets in NYC and LA are lined with tents filled with people who have absolutely no stability . And NO they aren’t lazy you sound stupid. A lot of these people actually have jobs and work harder and less appealing occupations then the rich. [ and that’s why people like Kylie Jenner who’s obsessed with insisting she wishes she had a “normal life” or that she wishes she was never famous to try and gain the approval of her audience, instead of helping those are are less fortunate and are trying to get that “Norma life” because normal to her is upper middle class and she doesn’t actually understand the real world or even try to but that’s a different coversation makes me so infuriated ] but because of the high price for medical care , food, rent, student debt, and to add on top of it all the global pandemic we are living though shutting down businesses and causing people to lay off employees they are overwhelmed .

So please someone in charge figure out how to pay people correctly and put money where it’s needed. Actors work hard but so do essential workers so why are they making so much less? and I don’t know the Financial logistics and I don’t really care if you’re a teacher, food service worker, health care worker, etc you deserve just as much as high paid artists . Artists I have no doubt you work your asses off and I’m not saying you don’t deserve what you make , I’m installing the you don’t get less pie argument here. I’m attacking the way the government is paying their essential workers. Art should be a right but at the state of the world now it’s a privilege and I know that’s not rose colored and I know life would suck without art, but come on why are we dancing around this ? I’m not saying defund art I’m saying fund humanity . We all turn against each other while the top watch and laugh and send thoughts and prayers. wake up,

Every job can’t be paid the same it’s not realistic but someone making millions of dollars a year while making movies or music , while someone else’s is making 15-20k spending 8-12 hours a day to be able to afford rent or to support their children, and the raising the prices three times as high every time minimum wage goes up 50 cents virtually makes 0 sense . As well as people in the entertainment industry who are making the money are putting it back in to fund other projects. so that money is almost untouchable unless you either obtain that talent or are privileged enough to be able to afford and are presented the opportunity to learn the skill. right now the economy is attempting to wipe out all middle and lower class people. Like we are dying it’s not a joke.

#I support the arts I swear #but two hundred million dollars ?!?#what did they put in a dollar for every Spider-Man movie ever made ?!?#anti capitalism #capitalist hell #feminism #feminist #I just don’t think we should pay actors more then essential workers #pay them the same #wage gap #America needs to fix itself

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do u have any jealous jake and/or amy headcanons?

(tbh I can't see either of them being the extremely jealous type, as in angry or spiteful about it. At most the kind of jealous Jake is so scared about in The Puzzle Master, being grumpy and disagreeable.

But I do think they get those pangs of insecurity that create jealousy a lot. Like neither of them believes they're 'good enough' for the other at first, so when someone shows up who they think is better it scares them.)

- like... Amy had a hard time dealing with Jake's many, many first dates back during his heaux phase when they were just annoying tales he'd share with Charles the next day and she pretended not to be interested. But once they're together, they obviously run into his ex-dates from time to time while out in Brooklyn, and she notices how they're all such gorgeous, girly women which is not what she thinks she is at all...

- at first she tries to emulate them, and worries about her looks insofar as asking Jake constantly what he thinks of this outfit, or if she should change her hair, or maybe get make-up tips from her teen cousin again. Which all seems absolutely ridiculous to Jake because there's nothing sexier than her pantsuits to him except maybe for her flowery blouses and especially those bold-coloured dresses he gets to see her in sometimes. And yeah Amy wearing lipsticks for special ocassions is absolutey a, uhm, a thing for him, but does she really need more than that? And what's wrong with the softest, shiniest ponytail in the world? His motormouth won't stop awkwardly singing her praises like that, and it definitely eases her mind

(- both Kylie and Rosa also point out that a) not a single one of those girls are anywhere near her range when it comes to smarts, strength and humour all of which Jake goes crazy for, and b) he spent probably 50% of those dates either crashing her dates, annoying her with text or annoying his date with stories about her)

- meanwhile Jake notices that 'ugly emotion' every time his brilliant Sergeant-slash-partner has a conversation with some professor at a party, half of which he can't even follow along with, or whenever she works with some brilliant hotshot from the departments above them. He tries to channel it into more positive ways like pledging to himself that he's gonna read up or find a documentary about that particular conversation topic and wooing Amy back by using it as random chat-up lines. On the one hand she loves that, but on the other she definitely knows why he's doing it and doesn't want him to think he has to 'earn' it to be with her. So she steers the chat into an area he's actually really clever in (and if that topic is sometimes Ninja Turtles then so be it) and watches him get excited to talk about it all.

- once they're engaged and then married, Amy turns less jealous and more... posessive in a good way. Like some barista-girl will flirt with Jake as he picks up coffee while she's waiting at their table, and when he brings her coffee back to her he is most definitely getting a slightly PDA-level kiss. When some up-and-coming Academy graduate keeps complimenting him and gushing about what an amazing detective he is, Amy lets him enjoy that glorious feeling of being someone's 'goal' only to pull him into some closet and show him that he's far more than just an amazing detective. And maybe to leave a very marking hickey on his neck for the rest of the day.

- basically she likes to remind him with absolutely no questions that he's hers, and he's obviously 100% on board with that because, uhdoy, of course he's hers, he's been literally since before they even considered dating each other to be an option.

#b99 #brooklyn 99 #amy santiago #jake peralta #peraltiago #headcanons #I have a hard time with jealousy in stories #not because it's not... a valid story point but rather because it usually turns pretty ugly

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tabloidtoc · 3 years

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In Touch, March 22

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Meghan Markle vs. the Palace

Page 1: Contents

Page 4: John Mayer joined TikTok and Taylor Swift fans made it clear they still have bad blood 12 years after he broke the pop star's heart -- hours later John shared a video of himself nodding as the words I'm Hearing You Out appeared on the screen, then he posted a clip of himself in a dark room singing That Was a Real Weird Day but he should have known Swifties will never, ever, get over anyone who spurns Taylor

* Other enemies of Taylor who got slammed by her fans -- Kim Kardashian, Netflix for the show Ginny & Georgia, Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun, Burger King

Page 5: Play of the Week -- Tom Brady on tossing the Lombardi Trophy from his boat to his teammate's boat during their Super Bowl celebration on the river in Tampa, Co-Star of the Week -- Holly Hunter on knocking Chrissy Teigen to the ground for a scene in Mr. Mayor, Makeover of the Week -- Cara Delevingne goes brunette, Number of the Week -- 11.5 million dollars Angelina Jolie got for selling a rare Winston Churchill painting which was a gift from her ex-husband Brad Pitt

Page 6: Crib of the Week: John Travolta's charming Maine estate, Winner of the Week -- Aaron Rodgers donates $1 million to small businesses in his California hometown and gets thanked by Jodie Foster in her Golden Globes speech, Loser of the Week -- Golden Globes gets the lowest ratings ever with just 6.9 million viewers

Page 12: Up Close -- Kelly Clarkson on The Voice, Reese Witherspoon totes be best accessory yet which is her new pup Minnie Pearl, Jennifer Lopez

Page 14: Rocking a new hair color and killer heels Lady Gaga steps out of her hotel in Rome where she's filming her new movie Gucci

Page 16: Kate Hudson dons her Fabletics gear for a weights workout, a shirtless Tyler Cameron, Brooke Burke helping out California's Road Dogs & Rescue

Page 18: Katy Perry who has lost nearly 60 pounds since giving birth in a bathing suit with fiance Orlando Bloom and daughter Daisy (with her face blurred) on vacation in Hawaii

Page 20: Jennifer Garner shows off the crazy hair and more that her kids gave her last year on Yes Day which is the subject of her new movie, Britney Spears with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James, Kate Beckinsale with her cat Clive in her lap, John Legend enjoys precious moments with his kids Luna and Miles

Page 22: With the final season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians set to premiere, Lisa Rinna is hell-bent on making her brood the next big family on reality TV and she wants to be a momager like Kris Jenner and that despite his bad-boy reputation Lisa is thrilled that her daughter Amelia Hamlin is dating Scott Disick -- Lisa thinks the timing couldn't be better for the Hamlins to land their own reality show and she's been pitching one for years and now she thinks it's within her reach but she may be setting herself up for major disappointment because the networks just aren't interested and everyone knows the Kardashians can't be replaced and while people love Lisa on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, giving her her own show might be a bit much and Lisa is no Kris Jenner, and Amelia and her sister Delilah Hamlin aren't as popular as the Kardashians or Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner and Lisa's husband Harry Hamlin would rather act; he doesn't want to be a reality star and he was only going along for the ride because Lisa pitched them as one big wacky family

Page 23: Hollywood Love Report -- Mary-Kate Olsen has been secretly dating CEO John Cooper for the last couple of months and he's just her type: older, good-looking, fun and successful and she's totally smitten

* Lily-Rose Depp and Timothee Chalamet split a year ago, but they've decided to give their relationship another chance

* Star Sightings -- 50 Cent and girlfriend Cuban Link, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shannen Doherty, Joe Jonas, Zoey Deutch, Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Marcus Mariota

Page 24: Cover Story -- The Royal Family Speaks Out: Our Side of the Story -- after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's bombshell interview, the palace scrambles to set the record straight -- the royal family feels stabbed in the back and they want everyone to know the truth -- Harry said his mother Princess Diana would feel very angry with how this played out and very sad

Page 30: Alec and Hilaria Baldwin's baby mystery -- the couple welcomes a new daughter and stirs up more drama

Page 32: My Bachelor Nightmare -- the first Black Bachelor Matt James' controversy-plagued season ends with betrayal and heartbreak

Page 34: The Big Interview -- Shep Rose of Southern Charm on his cheating scandal

Page 36: Fashion -- Zoom Fashion -- getting dressed-up for screen time means different things on top and bottom

Page 37: Beauty -- get Julia Garner's look from the Critics Choice Award

Page 42: Animal Overload -- my dog looks like Justin Bieber

Page 46: Horoscope -- Pisces Rob Lowe turned 57 on March 17

Page 48: Last Laughs

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Madison Avenue - “Don’t Call Me Baby” The Annual 2000 by Judge Jules & Tall Paul Song released in 1999. Mix released in 2000. House / Dance-Pop / Nu-Disco

***Song starts at 7:19 and ends at 9:50.***

Madison Avenue, the formidable and fleeting Australian duo who achieved worldwide fame, sales, and accolades off of a pair of similar-sounding, fun, and fierce dance-pop club bangers at the turn of the millennium, actually didn’t originally intend for themselves to become just a two-person group. And that might sound a little hard to believe given that the team-up of Andy Van Dorsselaer and Cheyne Coates sounded like golden, mass-appealing kismet, but the two of them actually wanted someone else to sing their songs at first.

Van Dorsselaer, who would become a successful label owner, DJ, remixer, and dance music producer, met Coates, a choreographer and singer, in the early 90s at a Melbourne club where Van Dorsselaer was performing a DJ set. The two would then develop a years-long friendship before finally deciding to make music together, which would see Van Dorsselaer producing the songs, Coates writing the lyrics, and then the both of them trying to find other people to sing the songs that they had formulated.

The first vocalist that Madison Avenue enlisted was a woman named Kellie Wolfgram, who sang on the group’s debut single, “Fly.” Wolfgram was then picked again to provide vocals for their second single, too, 1999’s “Don’t Call Me Baby,” but the plan suddenly changed after Van Dorsselaer and Coates realized that they actually had another singer in mind, one with tons of awe-inspiring spunk and swagger: Cheyne Coates herself.

See, Coates at first had provided a vocal guiding track for Wolfgram so she could get an idea of what Coates and Van Dorsselaer wanted, but Andy and Cheyne soon realized that Cheyne’s own vocals were actually better suited for the track. And you’d think that someone who graced a song with that much attitude and gravitas would’ve been an obvious choice from the get-go, but as it turns out, that simply just was not the case; it took a bit of time for Madison Avenue to realize that what they had had originally was actually quite good enough.

“Don’t Call Me Baby” was then released on Van Dorsselaer’s label, Vicious Vinyl, which had a production and distribution deal with Virgin/EMI Australia at the time. The song became popular in the Aussie clubs, but it was Virgin/EMI who were able to get it to radio, where it then flourished with mainstream pop audiences across the country, launching it to #2 on the charts and eventually triple-platinum status.

However, the song didn’t originally fare so well in the UK. Released in Australia in October 1999, “Don’t Call Me Baby” worked as a spring-and-then-summer hit there, but it was released the following month in the UK, and naturally, they weren’t on that same seasonal vibe as Australia, so while the song did well in the UK clubs, radio decided to pretty much sidestep it.

But then a bootleg that mixed “Don’t Call Me Baby” with “Disco Babes From Outer Space” by Babe Instinct surfaced and received serious play in UK clubs, leading to 15,000 copies sold, which then forced Sony UK’s hand, who had US and UK rights to “Don’t Call Me Baby,” to re-release it. And at that point, UK radio stations were more than willing to play it. The song then went all the way to #1 overall and #2 on the country’s dance chart, while also earning gold status.

And while “Don’t Call Me Baby” proceeded to take much of the rest of Europe by storm with a bunch of top-10 placements, it did not achieve nearly the same fate in the US. It tore up dancefloors across the country and achieved #1 status on Billboard’s dance chart, yes, but it only got to #88 on the Hot 100, which, honestly, kind of feels like a crime! I think if it had been promoted well enough, this jam would’ve killed it in America, but I guess since top 40 radio wasn’t really too much in the business of playing house music in 1999 and 2000, Sony didn’t wanna throw money at a song that a path hadn’t been previously carved for. It’s understandable, but it was also probably dead fucking wrong!

Anyway, this song’s a goddamn bop. For one, Coates’ varying vocalizing is fantastically catchy. It’s not so much the notes that she provides, although her briefly, slightly higher-pitched lines within the chorus that differentiate from her overall tone throughout the rest of the track makes for a subtly killer touch; it’s moreso her changing of pace and how she switches from a free-flowing, sing-songy wateriness in the lines of her pre-chorus, where the last syllable of one line connects seamlessly into the first syllable of the next line, and all within a single breath:

Don’t think that I’m not strong I’m the one to take you on Don’t underestimate me, boy I’ll make you sorry you were born

To a couple lines later, with the much sharper and much more economical, putting-her-foot-down,

Don’t. Call. Me. Baby.

It really is a thing of pop lyric songcraft brilliance.

And on the production side, Van Dorsselaer cobbled together an equally catchy funky house groove by utilizing and re-working a handful of samples from the opening seconds of Pino D'Angiò’s silly 1980 Italo-disco classic, “Ma Quale Idea,” which actually based its bassline off of McFadden & Whitehead’s super popular disco hit, “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now.” Van Dorsselaer brought his construction made of samples up to a house music speed, added a 4/4 kick drum, claps, and hats, and then threw in a searing, high-pitched string pad for the chorus. And that string pad goes well with those points when Coates also raises her own vocal tone for that little bit, too. Also, there’s parts in “Ma Quale Idea” where D'Angiò sings at a noticeably rapid-fire pace, and, conceptually, it’s not really all that unlike what Coates does on the pre-chorus of her own song, although Coates’ parts don’t sound nearly as absurd, so I wonder if Madison Avenue got their idea for that speedier delivery from this song that they wound up sampling so liberally 🤔.

Much to my own and what should also be your surprise, Madison Avenue was the first dance act to top the Australian charts (“Who the Hell Are You”) and also the first Australian dance act to top the UK charts as well (“Don’t Call Me Baby”). You’d think that both of those honors would have belonged to Australia’s own undisputed dance-pop queen, Kylie Minogue, but they absolutely do not. Madison Avenue actually got there first, and as far as Aussie dance goes, they completely owned ‘99 and 2000.

“Don’t Call Me Baby” is a song that manages to fit perfectly well on not just a late 90s-early aughts pop playlist, but also a house playlist that spans that same time period. And I don’t think that there’s that many songs from 1999 that you could say that about. I mean, along with its promotion and club success, this song’s inherent dynamism is the reason why it was included on both a bunch of pop comps as well as more dance-focused comps at the turn of the millennium, like Ministry of Sound’s The Annual 2000, which was mixed by Judge Jules and Tall Paul, and appears on Tall Paul’s side of the mix.

This one’s a tremendous tune that more than deserved all the praise, awards, and airplay that it received. Apparently Cheyne Coates grew pretty tired of it not all that long after its release, but I sure as hell haven’t and hopefully you won't either!

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The Sixteen Deadliest Tik Tok challenges Ever (DailyDot)

So, it’s not everyday a social media platform run by Chinese people and designed to basically duplicate snap chat, except video only, becomes popular, in fact tik tok is so popular, that it has millions of users, well, TikTok has 689 million monthly active users, whereas its twin Douyin (China’s version of TikTok) has 600 million daily active users. Combined, the TikTok/Douyin apps have over 1.29 billion monthly active users in 141 countries. Still, dumb, clout chasing teenagers have claimed this beloved social media sensation for themselves, however, clout is deadly, literally, people die from TikTok challenges, but hey, don’t take our word for it, check out the 16 dealiest tikrok challenges, with a 101% chance of decimating the insurance you wasted on your kids

The choking challenge Anything that involves choking a friend—or yourself—into near-unconsciousness is, unsurprisingly, ill-advised. Considering this is the very idea behind the choking challenge, it’s safe to say that anyone and everyone should steer clear of this particular trend.

This challenge, in one form or another, has been around for a long time. Teens have been partially strangling themselves for decades, just to feel the brief euphoria that follows that first, desperate gasp of air. The game ebbs and flows in terms of popularity but reached its viral zenith in 2017. Since then, the dangerous challenge has cropped up on various social media platforms, including TikTok. Risks of participating in the choking challenge are pretty much what you’d expect. Do it too long, and participants risk loss of brain cells, permanent brain damage and even death.

The condom challenge Another challenge that can lead to asphyxiation, the condom challenge hasn’t been around nearly as long as the choking game. This dangerous TikTok challenge requires a condom, some water, and at least two willing participants.

Performing the challenge is simple: One person fills the condom with water and drops it over the second person’s head. Thanks to the durability of most condoms, the dropped water “balloon” rarely pops. This means that many people participating in this challenge end up with an airtight seal over their noses and mouths. Bad idea.

The fire challenge You might be wondering why anyone would ever participate in something called the fire challenge. Clearly, you don’t remember being a teenager. Most common among younger users, the fire challenge is exactly as dangerous as it sounds—which has in no way stopped people from attempting it.

Performing the challenge is as simple and foolish as you might assume. Participants douse a portion of their body—usually the chest or hands—with a flammable liquid. Then they light it up and record the effects, which often lead to first- or second-degree burns. Videos of badly burned teenagers are all over the web thanks to this particular viral challenge.

The skullbreaker challenge The skullbreaker challenge is another fresh viral craze that, to most, seems completely ridiculous. The challenge has already proven itself immensely dangerous after a Venezuelan teen reportedly ended up in the ICU. Authorities have issued warnings about this particular trend, but that won’t stop some from attempting it.

You need at least three people to perform the skullbreaker challenge. All three stand in a row—in front of the camera, of course—and jump. The two on either side jump first, simultaneously, followed by the person in the center. When the center person’s feet leave the ground, however, their companions knock their feet out from under them. This typically leads to the middle person crashing backward to the ground, often striking their head in the process. It’s in the name, people: You can literally break your skull doing this. So don’t.

The outlet challenge One of social media’s newest trends, the outlet challenge is also one of the more dangerous TikTok challenges we’ve seen. This viral sensation can easily result in electrical system damage, fires, and electric shock.

To perform the—extremely inadvisable—outlet challenge, people use a phone charger partially plugged into the wall. Then they touch a penny to the exposed prongs, creating a large spark. The challenge has already caused property damage at a high school in Massachusetts. Thankfully, the teens weren’t injured, but if this challenge keeps up for much longer, someone will doubtless get hurt.

The hot water challenge Another dangerous challenge that can lead to severe burns and injury, the hot water challenge has been around for a while. Back in 2017, in fact, an 8-year-old girl died after attempting a version of this trend. The new version, which is just as dangerous, has been cropping up online.

The old version of the challenge involved drinking boiling water through a straw. The revamped challenge more often features participants pouring boiling water on themselves or their friends. Unsurprisingly, it has led to some serious injuries. One teen, whose friend poured boiling water on him while he slept, told Fox 59 that his skin “just fell off my chest.”

The snorting challenge Some of these challenges are supremely dangerous. Others are upsettingly disgusting. The snorting challenge has the unfortunate privilege of being both. It involves snorting a foreign object—usually a condom—up your nose and pulling it out of your mouth. *shudder*

This dangerous TikTok challenge, like many others on this list, is nothing new. It has cropped up multiple times over the last few decades, but in the age of doing dumb shit for followers, it has reemerged. When this challenge goes wrong, it can result in infection or damage to the lining of the nasal passage, CBS News reported. In really bad cases, it has the potential for choking, which could cause far more severe issues. Even when nothing goes wrong, it looks painful and extremely uncomfortable, so… why?

Ghost pepper challenge If you’re a big fan of hot food, the ghost pepper challenge—also called the hot pepper challenge—might be right up your alley. Blessedly less dangerous than many of its fellows, the ghost pepper challenge has nonetheless resulted in some major side effects among its participants.

Participation in this challenge merely requires that you locate and consume a hot pepper that lands high on the Scoville scale and upload your reaction online. Usually, people select between ghost, cayenne, and habanero peppers. The majority of people manage to walk away from this challenge unscathed, thankfully, but ghost peppers are nothing to mess with. Medical Daily reported in 2016 that a 47-year-old California man was hospitalized after he ate a ghost pepper–pureed hamburger during a local eating contest and ended up continuously vomiting and experiencing an esophageal rupture.

Pass out challenge Anytime a person passes out, it has the potential for negative side effects. Teens, however, are all over the trend of forcing themselves to pass out. Rather than partially asphyxiate themselves—like in the choking challenge—this dangerous TikTok challenge just involves swaying your head repeatedly from side to side.

Based on the TikTok attempts at the challenge, it seems to work. Unfortunately, a number of risks go along with successfully knocking yourself out—including simply falling and injuring yourself.

Concussion challenge Doesn’t this just sound like a great idea? The concussion challenge, also referred to as the “how to get a concussion” challenge, has been making the rounds on TikTok for several months now.

This utterly idiotic TikTok challenge requires a group. All the participants stand in a circle around the camera, which faces upward. Facing down, foolish teens then throw an object—which has ranged from a basketball to tricycles and ladders—into the air above their heads. The “challenge” is to stay put, risking a concussion when the object comes hurtling back to Earth. Why? Just… why?

The honorable mentions of dangerous challenges: These challenges came around before TikTok made its global launch, but that doesn’t make them any less dangerous or worthy of a spot on this list. Absolutely idiotic, sometimes deadly and always painful, the internet is clogged with far too many of these viral challenges.

The Tide Pod challenge We’ve likely all heard of the Tide Pod challenge. It swept the nation in early 2018, making headlines across the country. In case you were wondering, consuming soap in any form, no matter how colorful, is not a good idea. Complications from ingesting Tide Pods has led to serious health issues.

The Tide Pod challenge, as far as anyone can tell, started with a joke. Memes and jests about Tide Pods’ pretty colors and candy-like appeal were around long before people were downing the product itself. Then, people started doing just that. Younger YouTube users, in particular, fell victim to this ill-advised trend. Videos of teens and pre-teens eating laundry detergent packets briefly drenched the web before the pressing dangers of this challenge became common knowledge.

The blue whale challenge Despite the clear danger, a few of the challenges on this list might seem tempting to try out. The blue whale challenge, which has allegedly been linked to deaths on far too many occasions, is not one of them. The actual number of deaths that can be attributed to this viral trend is questionable—some speculate it’s simply an internet hoax—but its brief time in the spotlight terrified parents nationwide.

The blue whale challenge is, to put it simply, a suicide challenge. Participants are given 50 tasks to complete over 50 days. The tasks, which begin as rather benign, gradually increase in danger. To complete the challenge, anyone taking part must ultimately kill themselves. Similar challenges have cropped up over the years, but few garnered as much attention as the blue whale challenge.

The Kylie lip challenge Loads of online tutorials outline methods to mimic Kylie Jenner’s enviable look. Usually, this involves contouring and the careful application of makeup. Back in 2015, however, a very different method arose to try to imitate the young model’s full lips.

The Kylie lip challenge skyrocketed to popularity, mostly thanks to how easy it was to pull off. All participants needed was a small jar, cup, or shot glass. Placing the cup over their lips, they then created a vacuum by sucking all of the air out of the space. The intended result was puffy, pouty lips similar to Jenner’s. More commonly, people ended up with bruises and torn skin and risked permanent scarring.

The cinnamon challenge Remember planking? Ah what an innocent, mostly safe internet trend. Since the days of planking, viral challenges have gone from dumb to painful to dangerous and worse. The cinnamon challenge may seem rather tame on the outside, but don’t be fooled.

Cinnamon challenge TheButtingHeads/YouTube This challenge first cropped up as early as 2001, but it didn’t reach viral status until 2012. The necessary steps are quite simple. Just eat a spoonful of cinnamon without drinking water. In 60 seconds. All while the camera is running. This challenge lasted a remarkably long time, considering the massive health risks it posed. Participants in the cinnamon challenge were at risk of choking and gagging on the cinnamon in mild cases, and in worse cases inhaling cinnamon could lead to vomiting and scarring of the lungs.

The salt and ice challenge Thankfully, the salt and ice challenge hasn’t been overly popular since 2012. Still, fresh videos of people trying it out are always cropping up, despite multiple reports condemning the practice.

This challenge involves pouring salt onto moist, bare skin and then pressing an ice cube onto the area. Whoever endures the longest emerges victorious, but rarely unscathed. The resulting chemical reaction can lead to frostbite, first- or second-degree burns, and painful blisters. Warnings against participating in this painful challenge have, unsurprisingly, not made much of a difference.

#pain #suffering #dumb #dumb shit #dumb stuff #danger #tiktok #prettymucheverything

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WHEN: Saturday, August 1st. WHERE: Sapphire (Neutral) HOSTED BY: Mia Costello TIME: 7:00 PM CST DRESS CODE: Assigned Costume OOC TIME: 6:00 PM CST

Chanel Albright, the Costello’s notorious publicist, is turning 29 and all of Chicago’s elite, spontaneous, reckless and eyebrow raising are invited. Hosted and thrown by one of Chicago’s former news headliners, Mia Costello. This is a private event where two things allow you entrance into Sapphire, a personalized VIP pass and being dressed as the 90s or 00s artist listed on said pass. Failure to meet the dress code or to arrive in costume as someone other than the name on the pass results in not only a denied entry but immediate escorting from Sapphire’s premises.

Liquor, food, 90s/00s nostalgia and music will be in abundance. Drinks are practically free and the night will be wild and one to be remembered. Cell Phones and digital cameras are traded in for polaroid and disposable cameras. Sapphire has been transformed from the club of the present to that of the past with classics of each era and a few modern amenities provided for guests entertainment. Costello and private security are heavily in attendance to make sure things do not get too out of hand.

A/N: A special THANK YOU to Isa for putting this all together. She assigned every character a 90s/00s icon to dress up as – even the ones who aren’t taken! Everyone’s costumes will be listed below. She also made a playlist (listen here) and typed everything up. I didn’t have to do much work for this at all! Thank you for coming up with such a fun idea for everyone to participate in!

With that being said, I think I can trust everyone here to write and do replies however they see fit. If you want to write interactions via Chatzy/Discord, that’s fine, just make sure to post them on the dash if anything important happens so that we can all read! Try to stay on top of replies (this especially goes for ME, I suck). Have fun, make sure to check out the assigned costumes below! And make sure your character shows up in costume or they won’t be let in. Don’t make Mia mad, plz, thank you.

Chanel Albright: Posh Spice

Leon Costello: Justin Timberlake

Ezra Costello: Adam Levine (Maroon 5)

Mia Costello: Ginger Spice

Sofia Costello: Baby Spice

Luca Costello: John Mayer

Natalia Cardoza: Christina Aguliera

Camila Perez: Mariah Carey

Jackson Sinclair: Nick Carter

Margot Sinclair: Britney Spears

Noah Sinclair: Matthew Bellamy - Muse

Paityn Sinclair (Costello): Courtney Love

Sebastian Sinclair: Eminem

Felicity Sinclair: Avril Lavinge

Matthew Dunne: Aaron Carter

Tristan Sullivan: Marky Mark from the Funky Bunch

Joaquin Aleman: Enrique Iglesias

Eva Calderon: Shakira

Alondra Aleman: Beyonce (Destiny Child’s Era/Early Solo Career)

Livia Moreno: Gwen Stefani

Ambrya Mardin: Jennifer Lopez (JLO)

Not Taken Characters Roles: Who are invited to the party

Violet Costello: Scary Spice

Leo Amari: Marc Anthony

Gabriel Aleman: Jay Z

Charlotte Sinclair: Nicole Scherzinger

Abel Costello: Kurt Cobain

Aaron Kumar: Lenny Kravitz

Angela Webber: Alanis Moresett

Adam Davenport: Rob Thomas

Ben Lowell: Nick Lachey - 98 Degrees

Alex Alverez: 50 Cent

Avery Mercer: Alicia Keys

Liam Edwards: Gerard Way

Corinna Sutter: Whitney Houston

Damon Kent: Jason Maraz

Yvonne Santiago: Sheryl Crow

Jessa Westbrook: Kylie Minogue

Katrina Patani: LeAnn Rimes

Holden Estrada: Lil Bow Wow

Thalia Montoya: Aaliyah

Nicholas Farley: Usher

Mateo Lujan: Sting

Thomas Sinclair: Billie Joel Armstrong - Green Day

Juliet Carmichael: Celine Dion

Dennis: David Beckham

#pb event: 004 #thank you again isa!

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Week 7: Slow Fashion Movement & Influencers

For this week in Digital Communities, I'll be discussing Instagram influencers and the slow fashion movement. You may be asking yourself, 'what is slow fashion?' and 'why do we need this movement?' Let me fill you in!

The slow fashion movement is based on sustainability within the fashion industry, with design's incorporating high quality, small lines, regional productions, and fair labour conditions (Pookulangara & Shepard 2013, p.201). The slow fashion movement is described as the antipode to fast-fashion, which is mass-produced, cheap, changes within a fortnight, and often associated with a ‘throw away’ attitude (Lai et al. 2017, p.82). The image below perfect encapsulates what factors make up the movement;

Image source: https://orbasics.com/blogs/stories/slow-fashion

Leigh Weingus describes the slow fashion movement as ethically, sustainably-made items you’ll keep for years to come, rather than purchasing 'of-the-moment' items that you’ll be sick of by next season (Parade, 2019). While slow fashion is "the intersection" (Collings 2018) of ethical, eco and lasting fashion, the movement should not be confused with the eco and ethical terms. Eco fashion refers to what materials the item is made of and whether or not it can be recycled. Ethical fashion has to do with if the people making the items are working in safe conditions and are getting paid well and fairly.

Now this is where the massive influence of Instagram comes into play…

Instagram, being one of the most popular social platforms for digital citizens, plays a major role in keeping the fashion industry alive, mainly through the use of it's most popular users…'influencer's.' Instagram influencer's can be described as those that have "the power to affect the purchasing decisions of others because of his or her authority, knowledge, position, or relationship with his or her audience" (Influencer Marketing 2020). Major influencers such as Kylie Jenner, Tana Mongeau, Stassiebaby, Nikita Dragun and Sofia Jamora all promote fast fashion brands on their own profiles, such as Boohoo, Fashion Nova and Pretty Little Thing. You may be asking yourself, why do they promote these? Because they pay influencers the most. These fast fashion sites all offer their customers cheap clothing 'marked down' by 40, 50, 60 to 70%, but pay influencer's (or partner's as referred on Instagram) millions of dollars to promote their brand; Complex news reported that Fashion Nova spent more than $40 million on 'influencer marketing' (2020).

Image source: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/ezax3a/how-celebrities-helped-fashion-nova-take-over-your-instagram-feed-and-your-wallet

With most major Instagram influencer's promoting these fast fashion brands, the slow fashion movement is appearing more on users feed's. The #slowfashion has 6 million posts as of April 2020 (Instagram), highlighting how the movement is well and truly underway. An Instagram influencer that is all about the slow fashion movement and promoting sustainable brands is Kathleen Elie. Elie goes by @consciousnchic on Instagram, filling her feed with colourful style inspiration and quotes to motivate her 24.9k followers. She endorses the slow fashion movement with her bio stating 'live your BEST #sustainable life,' and posts tagging the sustainable brands she loves.

Image source: https://www.instagram.com/consciousnchic/?hl=en

To conclude this week's blog post, the slow fashion movement is well and truly underway in becoming more established in fashion, and in particular on Instagram. The slow fashion movement and sustainable fashion is important because it will be consumer's contribution to saving the earth (B Label, 2020), fashionably of course…

References:

Collings, K 2018, 'Why We're Celebrating the Slow-Fashion Movement in July,' Who What Wear, 1 July, viewed 30 April 2020, <https://www.whowhatwear.com.au/slow-fashion-movement/slide3>

Cowen, T. W. 2020, 'Fashion Nova Reportedly Spent $40 Million on Influencer Marketing in 2019,' Complex, 3 March, viewed 30 April 2020, <https://www.complex.com/style/2020/03/fashion-nova-spent-40-million-dollars-influencer-marketing-2019>

Lai, Z, Henniger, C. E. & Alevizou, P. J. 2017, ‘An Exploration of Consumers’ Perceptions Towards Sustainable Fashion – A Qualitative Study in the UK,' in Henniger, C. E., Alevizou, P. J., Goworek, H & Ryding D (eds), Sustainability in Fashion A Cradle to Upcycle Approach, Palgrave, United Kingdom, pp. 81-97.

Pookulangara, S & Shepard, A 2013, 'Slow fashion movement: Understanding consumer perceptions – An exploratory study,' Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 201.

Weingus, L 2019, 'What Is The 'Slow Fashion' Movement Everyone’s Hashtagging On Instagram?,' Parade, 24 September, viewed 30 April 2020, <https://parade.com/927146/leighweingus/slow-fashion/>

'What is an Influencer?' 2020, Influencer Marketing Hub, 29 February, viewed 30 April 2020, <https://influencermarketinghub.com/what-is-an-influencer/>

'Why Slow Fashion Is The Need Of The Hour' 2020, B Label, 16 January, viewed April 30 2020, <https://www.blabel.in/blogs/hemp-lovers/why-slow-fashion-is-the-need-of-the-hour>

#digitalcommunities #slowfashion #instagram #influencers

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Skincare/ makeup culture ☕️

oooh. i’ll divide this post into two parts: makeup culture and skincare culture.

(1.) makeup culture.

i think everyone knows that I’ve never liked makeup, mostly because I had relatively bad cystic acne throughout high school, that reacted badly to all of the makeup that my sister used (but most particularly her l’oreal foundation). I think makeup culture is particularly harmful to young girls, like the makeup youtube channels that are run by the parents I suppose of 8 year olds, where the 8yo is the actual youtuber.

like don’t get me wrong, i know young girls like playing with makeup (I actually did when I was that age, funnily enough)….. but the fact that professional or just plain fucking ridiculously expensive makeup palettes are now being marketed to girls in bloody primary/grade/elementary school, is just fucking wrong. and yeah there’s the post on here about how some younger girls are finding themselves ugly when they don’t wear properly applied makeup or something like that. and that breaks my heart. why the fuck should a young girl be made to feel ugly if she can’t blend like josiemaycosmetics (I made that up btw idk any makeup channels besides Jeffree star, James Charles and that tatti woman tbh) and can’t afford the bullshit Too Faced $98 powered foundation, $65 Sunday Riley blush (I roughly remember the price of this particular blush bc my sister bought it for me for my 20th birthday so that I could according to her “look good for uni” but I never actually used it lmao… and it’s no longer sold here in australia) and Kylie Jenner’s overpriced lip kits and idk Smashbox “photo finish” primer priced between $AU23-$AU55????

like I had this bad enough in fucking HIGH SCHOOL with my sister telling me that I’d “never get a boyfriend” or “never get a date for the formal/junior prom” if I didn’t spend hundreds of $$$$ for a good face of makeup and didn’t spend hours and hours learning how to do my own makeup. or how last year for my uni grad, she made out that I’d ruin my own uni grad if we didn’t spend $250 on the makeup artist we got for me….. where I unfortunately found out that my skin reacts to MAC products 😭😨 bc the MUA used MAC concealer and foundation. my sister also expected me to remember the setting spray the woman used for my makeup, when I was there from like 4:30am till like 6:45am and i was barely fucking awake. the setting spray probably could’ve easily cost over $100. let’s be real here. like why am I expected to remember shit that early in the morning???

one of my least favourite things with makeup culture is that you’re not meant to fuck it up in any way, shape or form. like when my sister did my makeup for my two high school formals/proms (year 10 & year 12) she constantly told me not to scratch my face while she was doing it (but it made me itchy, hooray for L’Oréal being shit lmao)…. not to fuck it up while I ate at those events….. and she didn’t let me eat before my uni grad last year bc “you’d definitely fuck up your makeup. don’t you dare scratch your face at all today!” like for someone who has hypersensitive/highly reactive skin that she has to scratch when it’s itchy….. and also loves fucking stuffing her face with food….. expecting me to never touch/scratch my face and to practically starve myself to preserve the integrity of my makeup (that i ended up paying for some in the end anyway) for an event is fucking stupid and over-restrictive.

like i always hated the way that the kardashians ate on KUWTK bc it looked so fucking mechanical and whatever bc they had to obvs preserve their makeup while shooting and also look nice for the camera. like why the fuck am I expected to eat ~like that~ when I have a faceload of MU on???? FUCK OFF. I will scratch it off. I will smear the food all over my face (ok not really) and eat however I motherfucking want, thank you very fucking much. like for my uni grad last year I was up from 4am and my grad ended at like 12:30pm….. so I didn’t have food til about 12:35 when I left the hall. and the whole time while I was eating my sister kept reminding me to not fuck up my makeup that we’d spent $250 on. JUST LET ME FUCKING EAT WOMAN, I SWEAR TO FUCK. lmao.

the last thing I hate the most about makeup culture is that like….. I absolutely hate makeup like I said above….. but once I have it on I feel pretty and cry a bit bc I’ll just never learn to do it myself…. mostly bc I couldn’t be bothered…. bc I save hundreds, if not thousands of $$$$ from not buying all the bullshit essential items you need just for a ~basic no makeup, makeup look~, and bc my hands have never been steady enough to use some of the things, like false eyelashes and eyelash curlers or liquid eyeliner/normal eyeliner…..

but yeah. I just hate that it makes me feel pretty???? but I also feel good and more natural without it???? and I’ll never like my sister’s comment that: “you’re the prettier one out of the two of us…. but if only you hurried up and learnt to do your makeup, you’d be even prettier” or some dumb semi-condescending shit comment she’s said to me like that before. like why is the only way a woman can be pretty (other than some clothes that make her feel good) by smearing 100s/1000s of dollars worth of makeup on???? like why the fuck am I expected to spend all that money when a good bulk of men will never bother with the male makeup trend anyway???? like why am I expected to act differently when I basically just have grown up face-paint on lmao???? I’ve never felt natural in makeup, I’ve always felt awkward and like…. not sound like an cringey edgelord emo kid…. but i never felt ~real~ wearing makeup lmao. just yeah.

but yeah I also understand makeup is an art and I appreciate that. makeup culture is so fucked on all sides for women.

(2.) skincare culture:

now skincare culture is different for me. considering that, like I said before, I had relatively bad cystic acne…. and I’ve since also developed eczema during the winter months….. so I’ve had to develop a good skincare routine over the years to keep my skin under control. but again, there are parts that I don’t like about skincare culture…. like women are typically meant to spend, again, hundreds and if not thousands of dollars on super expensive skin creams (some of which I’ve tried) to fix their fine lines, their laugh lines, their crows feet, their blemishes, their birth marks and cellulite…… the list truly goes on and on….. and on top of that (well this hellsite which isn’t entirely accurate) I’m, or we as women, are expected to teach all of that to men in their 20s???? like fuck off. why and how the fuck didn’t they get the fucking memo to look after their own goddamned skin???? like my 20s are already tiring enough, and now I gotta pass on important skincare advice to men, who could easily fucking find it themselves online???? lord help their asses lmao.

but other than the men bit…. yeah skincare culture is just as bad as makeup culture. like when Cosmo mag was still running in australia, more than half of the shit the women at Cosmo were advertising as part of their skincare routines were literally $300 night treatment creams or moisturisers; $150 facial cleansers; or $500 skin peels, or $600 appointments at dermatologists and skin therapies like electrolysis that I’ll probs never be able to afford. like one of the luxury brands that I LOVE (💖) is Mario badescu bc the two pimple treatments that i sometimes I use from them (the drying lotion and the anti-acne serum) are the ONLY two acne treatments that have NEVER made my face turn red and my skin peel off (besides a really good neutrogena one that Neutrogena discontinued 😭). every other chemist bought pimple treatment cream makes my skin peel off/itchy/turn red. but sadly the two Mario badescu treatments are priced over $50 if bought together (ones now $31 (formerly $28, this one’s great bc it dries clear), the other is like $26, this one dries pink). so the chemist bought ones like the ones by Clearasil or OXY10 are my saviours at $11.99-$12.99, even though they dry out my skin to buggery and leave big white marks on my face bc they both dry white lmao. but I’ve gotta suffer that for the price of beauty lmao.

also there’s expensive face washes (or skin care program packs etc) from Paula’s choice that I love.... but again they were like $35 for a 400ml bottle and $25 for a fucking 150ml or 250ml bottle. now the one i like is $20 for 177ml, which is a rip off. some of the other luxury things that I’ve tried (via free samples) that don’t work, like Kate Somerville (priced at like $65 and over), Philosophy and god knows what else that i’ve bought from Mecca Cosmetica, which is the Aussie version of Sephora in the past. and yes, for acne treatments, i’ve used pro-activ before. it was ok… but i never used it in high school, after the awful time we had trying to cancel our subscription to it back in the day for my sister lol.

also can we talk about the ultrasonic face brush systems that are still raging strongly??? like they’re also super rip offs, especially with buying replacement heads for $35 a pop. like I’ve had a Clarisonic for years (that I’ve stopped using, admittedly)…. the model was roughly $250 when I got it for my like 19th birthday. now they’re even more expensive at like $315 for the latest “clarisonic mia fit cleansing system” which is linked on the $315. or now there’s the foreo that costs anywhere between $75 (the cheapest model) to fucking almost $400… ie $395. the replacement heads for the clarisonic and i suppose replacement like pads or something for the foreo are meant to be replaced every three months “for optimum cleansing” or whatever. like $35 every three months is a lot to maintain after a while. also using the clarisonic added like 10 extra minutes to my showers/general skincare routine bc you’re meant to use it for five mins or whatever and then spend another 5mins washing it out to make sure that it doesn’t collect mould and buildup too much soap residue. it was just a lot of effort to use, even if it did make me feel like i had a better and deeper face washing routine.

and yes, i know there’s Lush. both my sister and i (but more my sister) were obsessed with Lush back in high school, after one of our sydney cousins introduced it to us. but Lush’s skincare stuff for pimples just never worked for us. it made me breakout more, actually. but their old apple pie and choc-orange lip balms were the BOMB. it’s a pity that they no longer make them tbh. their jelly soaps were fun to use and smelt nice too. i can’t remember much else about lush tbh lmao.

for face masks, i’ve found that store/chemist bought formula 10.0.06 or whatever works the best for my skin. but the push, especially again in cosmo and other places, to buy more expensive face-masks and like designer FMs that you should really ask a professional to use first imo, is fucking harmful, especially when you’ve got ones that take off the whole top layer of skin from your face (like the famous and the overly popular charcoal face peel masks), or so i’ve read. like it’s yikes out there. please be safe with these masks, ya’ll. and the same goes for making your own organic face masks, considering that i’ve seen posts on here about using lemon juice which is bad for your skin??? idk anyway. i also hate how with the face masks i buy, there’s about 6 different “skin-illuminating”/“skin brightening”/”skin detoxing” etc masks, that all essentially do the same fucking thing. just keep it at one and fucking go; for gods fucking sake lmao.

but yeah, skincare culture does suck just as much as makeup culture, considering that is heavily focused on women’s self-esteem and wallets…. and barely ever focuses on men. like it’s a double-edged sword tbh.

also as side notes: why the actual fuck are makeup companies still giving their makeup shades or makeup lines sexual names???? like i just found a fucking blush shade by NARS, in my research for this post, called “Orgasm”???? like what the FUCK is wrong with ya’ll??? like y’all actually have the fucking AUDACITY to really make 8 year olds say that in their makeup tutorial videos as well??? “our best selling orgasm collection” sweet lord. that sounds bad. y’all need to sort your shit out, and so do the people who name nail polish shades..

the other worrying general beauty trends that i keep getting on my facebook newsfeed are the teeth whitening systems like hismile and at home laser treatment machines… and then also the charcoal toothpastes to whiten your teeth. oh and also the facial skin “vacuums”, that suck out dirt/oil and your blackheads/pimples etc from your pores. stay safe out there everyone, and do your bloody research. don’t believe the reviews and the hype.

also finally: take your skin type and skin condition/(s) into account if you want to use any of the things that I’ve mentioned that I use/have used on this post. or that I’ve just generally mentioned, like the Clarisonic and the foreo. because what works for me, might not work for you. I’m not a skincare expert or dermatologist. check with your doctor or a skincare professional or whatever before you start using some of these things, even if you might think that it’s stupid & pointless to do so.

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dedicatedtodance · 5 months

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National Dance Radio Airplay

Top 50 for the week ending December30, 2023

Body Moving --Eliza Rose, Calvin Harris -2

Saving Up ---Dom Dolla -1

Both ---Tiesto, 21 Savage, BIA -3

Atmosphere --Fisher, Kita Alexander -4

Real Love --Martin Garrix & LLOYISO -5

Strangers---Kenya Grace -6

Better Off (Alone Part III)--Alan Walker, Dash Berlin, VIKKSTAR -9

A Lesson In Chemistry --Anabel Englund -7

Tension--Kylie Minogue -8

Tell It To My Heart -CASH CASH, Taylor Dayne -12

Echo --RSCL, REPIET, Julia Kleijn -10

Krazy --VASSY -13

Past Life --Felix Jaehn, Jonas Blue -14

Take My Chance --MK -15

Drums --James Hype, KIm Petras -11

Ray Of Solar --Swedish Huse Mafia -16

Lay Low --Toby Romeo, 220Kid, Izzy Bizu -20

Rush ---Troye Sivan -19

Water --Tyla -17

Jungle --Alok, The Chainsmokers, Mae Stephens -18

On My Love--Zara Larsson, David Guetta -21

Need Your Love --Felix Cartal, Karen Harding -22

Car Keys --Alok, Ava Max -30

I'll Be There--Robin Schulz, Rita Ora, Tago PZK -27

Greedy--Tate McRae -26

More Baby --Chris Lake, Aluna -23

Houdini ---Dua Lipa -24

When We Were Young --David Guetta, Kim Petras -28

Love--BUT. -25

(It Goes Like) Nanana -Peggy Gou -35

Superhero --Aunien -32

Heart Still Beating --Nathan Dawe, Bebe Rexha -31

Feels Like Us--GT_OFICE, AKWZ SNNY, Robbie Rosen -34

Over Now --Seven Lions & Above & Beyond, Opposite the Other -29

Adore U --Fred Again... & OBONGJAYAR -39

Asking --Sonny Fodera, MK -36

Pull You Closer --Sistek, Sadie Rose Van -38

On My Way ---Kaskade -37

Young & Foolish ---Loud Luxury f/Charlieonafriday -40

Easy ---3LAU & XIRA -33

I'm Only Here For The Beat --Madelline -43

Fall Again --HAYLA -41

Drinkin' ---Joel Corry, MK, Rita Ora -45 off next weeks

Mwaki --Zerb --42

DNA --Billy Gillies f/ Hannah Boleyn -46 off next weeks

***<>Miracle---Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding -67

Where You Are --John Summit & Hayla -50

<>Memory --Bonnie & Clyde -62

<>Escape---Kx5 -56

Bad Habits --Ed Sheeran -49 off next week

Delay in posted was the result of broken hdmi cable.

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wrestlingisfake · 5 years

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Double or Nothing preview

Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho - The winner of this match will face the winner of the Casino Battle Royale at a later date to determine the first AEW world champion. Interestingly, Jericho is scheduled to challenge for the IWGP heavyweight championship on June 9, and this match may indirectly affect that one.

This is a rematch from Wrestle Kingdom 12, where Jericho began his sudden shift from “I’ll never wrestle anywhere besides WWE” to “I can be the Brock Lesnar of New Japan.” Neither man has had a match since Wrestle Kingdom 13 earlier this year, where Omega lost the IWGP heavyweight title in the main event, and Jericho lost the IWGP intercontinental title in the semi-main.

Jericho’s character outside of WWE has been a leathery weirdo brawler, whose services are highly valued by promoters even though he’s totally uncontrollable. He’s randomly ambushed several top names in New Japan, and he seems to be gunning for Cody Rhodes down the line, but his recurring nemesis is Omega. The general idea is that Omega entered the “greatest of all time” conversation with his six-star performances in 2017, and that puts a target on him for legends like Jericho that want to make a statement. Omega defeated Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom 12, then Jericho shockingly attacked him at All In, then Omega’s team defeated Jericho’s team during Jericho’s wrestling cruise, and then Jericho attacked Omega again at AEW’s February 7 media event.

This is basically the biggest match AEW can present at this point. It’s a rematch from the Tokyo Dome, featuring the biggest current star who’s never been to WWE and the biggest ex-WWE star they could sign. In some ways it’s a coup they could put this together in a US show, but in other ways I’m disappointed that AEW couldn’t come up with something hotter. 18 months after his first NJPW vignette, the challenge for AEW is to prove Jericho still has mileage as a 48-year-old resident legend, and not just as an occasional special attraction. Luckily, Jericho is keenly aware of this stuff and pretty good at finding ways to keep himself over, so hopefully this match will set up a good direction for him.

I tend to think Omega should win here, but Jericho is coming in with a pretty shitty win-loss record, considering he’s been set up as the top heel in the company. A win for Jericho would add momentum to the angle that he thinks he’s singlehandedly put AEW on the map, and set up more matches down the line. Then again, Omega is the actual ace of the promotion, and needs to be protected as such. So I’m expecting a creative finish, but I don’t know which guy will win.

Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson vs. Penta El 0M & Rey Fenix - The Young Bucks (Nick and Matt) are defending the AAA tag team championship. This feud started with the Lucha Bros. showing up at an AEW press conference, taking exception to the Bucks calling themselves the greatest tag team. This led to the Bucks flying all over the place to ambush the Lucha Bros. at various indie shows. Finally, when the Lucha Bros. won the AAA tag title at Rey de Reyes, the Bucks suddenly showed up for an impromptu title match and won the belts.

It’s worth noting that a rematch for the title has already been booked for AAA’s Verano de Escándalo on June 16. So the outcome of this match won’t have much impact on which team ends up with the belts in the long run. With that in mind, the logical outcome is for the Bucks to win to establish them as the benchmark for the strong tag team division they’ve been promising. Penta and Fenix aren’t enhancement talent by any means, though, so I could see them scoring a win on the Bucks’ turf. But until the Lucha Bros. put a ring on it and sign with AEW, it would be risky to put them over. I’m leaning towards the Bucks retaining.

Cody Rhodes vs. Dustin Rhodes - Dustin, 50, is the son of wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes and his first wife, Sandra; Cody, 33, is Dusty’s son by his second wife, Michelle. This is virtually a direct follow-up to their match at WWE Fast Lane 2015 (as Stardust and Goldust), which had been the closest they’d come to their dream of doing the match at a Wrestlemania. A year later, Cody left WWE to begin a meteoric rise in the non-WWE scene, leading to his leadership role in AEW. Once it became clear Dustin was leaving WWE, it was obvious he would end up here.

Dustin delivered a strong video package about needing to prove he’s still got it, and wanting to settle old scores with Cody. Cody cut an intense promo likening Dustin and his era with Old Yeller, suggesting he has to put Dustin down because he loves him. You can debate the wisdom of indulging in this storyline at a pivotal point in AEW’s beginnings, but you cannot argue that both men as fully committed to proving it can work. Hopefully that results in some killer storytelling and a good match. I have to think Cody wins here, and the brothers hug and Dustin ends up with a backstage job or something.

PAC vs. Hangman Page - ...already happened, so I guess you can watch that here. The match on this card had to be cancelled. The angle is that Page was so hype to fight Pac that he went to an indie show in England to do the match a week early. Pac intentionally got disqualified and then pillmanized Page’s knee; he claimed he only wanted the Double or Nothing match to injure Page, but since he’d already succeeded with that he wouldn’t be coming to this show. I suspect this match was intended to determine a participant in the match to crown the first AEW world champion, since Page has been talking about wanting that spot for months.

As of this writing, AEW hasn’t announced what Page will be doing on this show, or even if he’s kayfabe recovered enough from the knee attack to have a match This could be trouble, because it leaves fans to imagine all sorts of crazy surprise opponents that the company may not be able to deliver. Already people have been actively speculating about CM Punk (the Dave Chappelle of wrestling), Jon Moxley (formerly WWE’s Dean Ambrose), and Joey Ryan (who had a farcical feud with Page last year). How AEW handles this mess will leave a lasting first impression with fans, particularly fans like me who’ve seen all the stupid things WWE would do in this situation.

Britt Baker vs. Nyla Rose vs. Kylie Rae - This is a three-way match, so the first woman to score a fall over either opponent will be declared the winner. Baker is probably best known as the wrestling dentist from the four-way match at All In last year. Rose made headlines as the first trans woman signed to a major wrestling company, and I’ve just learned she starred in a Canadian sitcom a few years ago, playing a computer programmer, which is an interesting contrast from her “Native Beast” wrestling persona. Rae is relatively less known, but she’s a smiley happy character in the vein of Bayley, and she’s from Chicago so I know who I’m rooting for.

Unfortunately I think the big story in this match is whether the live audience will accept Nyla, or if a bunch of jerks try to start transphobic chants or something. I think the hardcore AEW audience is cool about it, but there’s just no way to know until she goes through the curtain.

Of these three, Baker seems to be the one they’re pushing as the face of the division, which may make her the favorite. But the fact it’s a three-way with nothing tangible at stake makes this one hard to call.

Christopher Daniels & Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian vs. CIMA & T-Hawk & El Lindaman - Daniels’s team is SoCal Uncensored, which has become something of an underground sensation via their sing-along catchphrases and Being the Elite skits. Cima’s team represents a faction called Strong Hearts, consisting of the wrestlers who joined him in leaving Dragon Gate to found Oriental Wrestling Entertainment in Shanghai.

OWE is one of several attempts to expand the wrestling industry into the lucrative Chinese market--AEW is clearly partnering with them to cultivate Chinese talent and a Chinese audience. Note, however, that Cima, T-Hawk, and Lindaman are Japanese, not Chinese; the Chinese wrestlers they’ve been training will presumably appear in the future. This match seems to be less about China than about getting OWE over with the AEW audience, and acknowledging the influence Cima has had in the careers of wrestlers like Daniels and the Young Bucks.

If you weren’t paying attention to ROH last year, you might be surprised how hot SCU has become with the kind of fans that’ll be at this show. When I went to All In I was prepared for the sea of Bullet Club shirts and constant Elite chants, but the response to anything SCU did was far more intense. They really should win here, although there may be a plan to use them to establish the Strong Hearts as a force to be reckoned with. It’ll really depend on how often Cima and the OWE guys are planning on flying out to do these shows.

Aja Kong & Yuka Sakazaki & Emi Sakura vs. Hikaru Shida & Riho & Ryo Mizunami - Kong is legendary monster heel, whose career goes back over 30 years. As for the others, I don’t have much info on them. My impression is that this match is designed to help introduce joshi (Japanese women’s wrestling) to the west, which would suggest the younger participants in this match (Sakazaki, Shida, Riho, and Mizunami) will be groomed for long-term roles in the company. From what I’ve heard, Kenny Omega wants AEW to spotlight Japanese women as a unique attraction, similar to how WCW used cruiserweights and luchadors back in the day. It’s a clever move, since the other US promotions have male Japanese stars, but joshi is still rather obscure in the west. On Being the Elite they’ve played up Kenny Omega’s history with Riho, so I guess I have to pick her team to win.

Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta vs. Jack Evans & Angelico - Chuck and Trent are the Best Friends, who were on the verge of breaking up when we last saw them in New Japan. Evans is one of the original big names from the super-indy days in the early 2000s. Angelico has been teaming with Evans in AAA, Lucha Underground, PWG, and elsewhere. The Young Bucks have talked a big game about making the tag team division more important in AEW than in other promotions, but matches like this one will determine if they’re really serious about any tag teams but themselves. I can’t decide which team should win, but I’ve got a soft spot for the Best Friends so I’m rooting for ‘em.

Casino Battle Royale - This is a 21-person gauntlet battle royal match, scheduled for the pre-show, where the winner will qualify to for a future match to determine the first AEW world champion. Typically this kind of match starts with two participants in the ring, and each additional participant enters every 90 seconds or so. The twist here is that five participants will start, and every three minutes another five enter the match. The final entrant, being “lucky 21,” gets to enter alone, meaning only one person will have that “freshest person in the match” advantage.

The rules for elimination have not been specified, so I assume it’ll be the standard rules for most battle royales. After entering the match, a participant will be eliminated if they exit the ring over the top rope and both of their feet touch the floor. Participants can avoid elimination by stalling their entry into the ring, or by exiting the ring under the top rope, or by going over the top and keeping one foot off the floor until they can re-enter. Eliminations can occur at any point in the match, before and after the last participant has entered. The last person left in the match after everyone else has been eliminated is declared the winner.

Confirmed entrants for the match include:

Ace Romero (the big fat dude from MLW)

Billy Gunn (he’s an ass man, womp womp)

Brandon Cutler (the Young Bucks’ old buddy from PWG)

Brian Pillman, Jr. (the son of the “loose cannon” from WCW/WWF)

Dustin Thomas (a guy with no legs who impressed everyone at Joey Janela’s Spring Break recently)

Glacier (the Mortal Kombat guy from WCW...yes, that Glacier)

Isiah Kassidy (one half of the tag team Private Party)

Jimmy Havoc (an edgelord from the British indie scene)

Joey Janela (sleazy guy from GCW that does the Spring Break shows)

Jungle Boy (Luke Perry’s son doing a Tarzan gimmick)

Luchasaurus (a guy who seems to be neither a luchador nor a dinosaur)

Marq Quen (the other half of Private Party)

Michael Nakazawa (Kenny Omega’s old buddy from DDT)

MJF (obnoxious preppie douchebag from MLW)

Shawn Spears (WWE’s Tye Dillinger/Cody’s old buddy from OVW)

Sonny Kiss (formerly XO Lishus in Lucha Underground)

Sunny Daze (scary weird guy that makes Bray Wyatt look like Mr. Rogers...okay, I’ll admit that’s not a very helpful comparison right now, but you get the drift)

???

That leaves four spots remaining as of this writing. Knowing AEW, those spots could go to some of the guys who are signed but not booked (like Darby Allin or Peter Avalon) or to total unknowns, or to giant surprise stars. It is entirely possible some women could be added to the match.

Obviously that “lucky 21” spot is perfectly suited for a big surprise entrant to shockingly debut, run wild, and win the whole thing. However, since this match is for the pre-show, I don’t see them blowing their wad on a really big surprise. On the other hand, the winner of this match has to be a credible contender for their world championship, so they can’t just give it to Joey Ryan or whoever. This is where you really start wondering if Jon Moxley is available.

Sammy Guevera vs. Kip Sabian - The opening match, to air on the pre-show. Guevera is a former AAA crusierweight champion. Sabian has held the IPW:UK championship, and based on the limited data I can find for that title, he may well still be the champion. Considering how much of this card consists of wrestlers I literally never heard of until they were booked for this show, it says something that these two are so obscure they’re in the opener. But that’s to be expected when starting a promotion from scratch. Hopefully they both give us a reason to care who they are.

#aew #double or nothing #kenny omega #the young bucks #cody rhodes

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