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May 2025

April 2025

CTRL+ALT+Existential Crisis: What do we actually need in a Creative Director Now?
In the same way generative AI turned brand social into a copy-paste pandemonium of pixel-perfect Ghibli McVibes™—now it's coming for the Creative…
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Action Figures and Ghibli: We've Traded Brand Creativity for Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V Culture
Generative AI has turned brand social media into digital suburbs—every street lined with the same Quiet Luxury Beige houses, LEGO lawns, and…
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Turns Out My Future Personality is Just a Very Expensive Subscription Service
I woke up thinking it was 2026.
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James Cameron Is Training the Algorithm to Replace You—And Himself
In a twist worthy of his own science fiction, the director who once warned us about machine sentience in 'Terminator' now knows the truth: creativity is…
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March 2025

Marketing Isn't Dead. It's Going Through Its Villain Origin Story.
Yesterday, OpenAI dropped a feature that turned images and memes into Studio Ghibli-like cartoon perfection.
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JoRoan
Scroll and Seep and Dopamine Drips: How Algorithms Devour Our Imagination in the Tarnished Age of Metrics
I watched my entire creative identity get flattened into an engagement metric last week.
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Scrolling Past Ourselves: Choosing Human Inconvenience Over AI’s Understanding
I saw a quote last night that stuck like gum to the bottom of my brain—something about how our current generation of kids raised on endless scrolling…
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February 2025

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