Defending your own face is now a celebrity line item
Famous people now pay thousands a month to scrub AI fakes of themselves. It's the new stylist, and it shows that image rights have become a luxury good.
Famous people now pay thousands a month to scrub AI fakes of themselves. It's the new stylist, and it shows that image rights have become a luxury good.
Halloween's new gifting ritual sells affection and content more than sweets. Enjoy it, but don't let an algorithm talk you into an iPhone in a pumpkin bucket.
Turning a vital hormone into a TikTok optimization project is peak wellness culture: manufacture the anxiety, then sell the cure. The smart move is to ignore it.
Four years after the Oscars slap, Éric Judor says it confirmed everything he already thought of Will Smith. That says less about Smith than about how fame hardens into a single frame.
The Met promised to weigh Galliano's genius against his conduct, then let the show vanish; the museum still owes the public the debate it advertised.
A 25-year-old became content because someone wore a camera on their face. Privacy law is catching up, but etiquette, design and platforms must do the heavy lifting.
Mason Ramsey's label exit is being told as a fall from grace, but the real story is that the internet hands kids a spotlight and no safety net.
A bowl of rice, ground beef and avocado is a perfectly good routine. Calling it a movement, or a nutrition plan, is where the trend gets lazy.
Megan Fox is reportedly "relieved" that MGK is rumored to be dating Dakota Johnson. Whoever wrote that script, the graceful-ex statement has become a reputation tool.
The H3 crew cutting ties with Ethan Klein shows how fragile creator empires built on a couple's intimacy are: the product was trust, and it just got audited.
The 007 screen tests are private, so the public chases the one thing it can see: a famous couple. That says a lot about what a Bond casting sells now.
A bespoke Erdem gown, a Chanel leopard set and a shared crystal trim did more for All's Fair than the series ever managed to do for itself.
Sheryl Sandberg's warning about tradwives sounds like culture-war noise, but the leadership numbers behind it deserve a harder look, and a few caveats.
A $1 million game show, Chanel and Hermès bags and a surprise Backstreet Boys set show the celebrity birthday is now built for the feed, with guests as the cast.
Telling young actors to do something else is brutal, but it may be more truthful than the industry's soothing AI messaging, and it shows who actually gets protected.
A storm named Vance formed off Mexico and the memes arrived on cue, saying less about meteorology than about how we treat every coincidence as a political weapon.
A newborn with a dark mustache went viral, but the real story is that "is it AI?" now arrives before "aw, cute" and nobody can settle it.
At 67, the actor says she walks at least two hours a day. It's free, slow and unphotogenic, and it may be the most subversive wellness routine of the year.
Rosalía, Tyla and Kaia Gerber make underwear-as-outerwear look easy, but the magic is in the tailoring and the stylist. Borrow the layering, skip the literalism.
Viral drone videos in Rocinha turn a neighborhood into a runway. Tourism can still help residents, but only if they own the story and the revenue.