Gaming journalist close-reads the lyrics to Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department, which broke the record for most daily Spotify streams in April. He sees the album as a meta commentary on Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans, writing: "The subtext here is that overprotective Swifties don't actually have Taylor Swift's best interest in mind."
The cofounder of a buzzy specialty mushroom startup conducted a public postmortem into why it failed. Essentially, they thought they were a tech company but were really a food company - and food can't scale as fast as tech. "VC bets are inherently speculative," he writes, "and if you want to ride that dragon, you need to be a literal dragon rider. I couldn't ride the VC dragon."
Aqyla sparked a conversation about why she chose an arranged marriage. "To me, arranged marriage is different [than] forced marriage," Aqyla writes. "From the many candidates my parents offered, I had a choice to say no, and I did, plenty of times [...] It's a lot like Tinder, except in this scenario it is an extremely vetted Tinder customized to my personal interest."
Remylyn Tornilla (aka Remi) joined Medium via TikTok, publishing personal, confessional stories that resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers. We interviewed Remi on our blog last summer. "I honestly didn't expect so many people to relate to my writing," she says. "Writing on Medium has been my escape."
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