🎧 Spotify wants to be a one-stop-shop. Should it be?

🎧 Zillennials are in their ✨whimsical✨ era

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mtdeco.substack.com [https://mtdeco.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] This week: * Spotify is reserving concert tickets for superfans [~00:00:35]. Spotify announced it will use listening data (streams, hours, and shares) to identify superfans and hold tickets exclusively for premium subscribers. * The rise of whimsy [~00:19:10]. A New York Times piece [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/style/whimsy-trend-gen-z-millennials.html] declared whimsy a rising trend among Zillennials. Beyond the paywall… * Everyon…

🎧 Is 90% of the internet fake?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mtdeco.substack.com [https://mtdeco.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] This week: * The rise of parallel play for adults [~4:31]. A Real Simple article applied the child development concept of parallel play to adult friendship -- spending time together while doing your own thing. * The Rise of Parallel Play Friendships, Real Simple [https://www.realsimple.com/parallel-play-friendships-11974884] * Stop Calling It Community. You’re Running a Group Chat With Merch. [https://open.substack.com/pub/ayoogunde/p/stop-calling-it-community-youre-running?r=1zu93j&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web], Ayo Ogunde 🧠 [https://substack.com/profile/14608800-ayo-ogunde] * Nobody wants to be famous anym…

🎧 The internet is trying to buy Spirit Airlines

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mtdeco.substack.com [https://mtdeco.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] Happy Friday! 👋 We’re back with this week’s episode of Open Tabs, our weekly Substack live where we talk about the internet news and cultural moments that have been taking up space in our brains and Google tabs. Here’s what we covered this week: * Charli xcx dropped a new song exclusively on Instagram and vinyl [~0:00]. She released her new song, I Keep On…

🎧 Is the internet killing reality TV?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mtdeco.substack.com [https://mtdeco.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] Happy Friday! 👋 We’re back with this week’s episode of Open Tabs, our weekly Substack live where we talk about the internet news and cultural moments that have been taking up space in our brains and Google tabs. Here’s what we covered this week: * The Met Gala happened [~0:29]. We had varying levels of investment: Megan Collins [https://substack.com/profile/480688-megan-collins] was tuned in across YouTube and TikTok liv…

🎧 Spotify wants to be a one-stop-shop. Should it be?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mtdeco.substack.com [https://mtdeco.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] Happy Friday! 👋 We’re back with this week’s episode of Open Tabs, our weekly Substack live where we talk about the internet news and cultural moments that have been taking up space in our brains and Google tabs. Here’s what we covered this week: * AI influencers are getting sneakier [~0:29]. A New Yorker [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/with-ai-anyone-can-be-an-influencer]piece [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/with-ai-anyone-can-be-an-influencer] profiles a 45-year-old Georgia homemaker who bu…