Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits

In a spring installment of Save or Scroll, Morgan teams up with culture journalist Steffi Cao to dig into the stories they can’t stop thinking about. From looksmaxxing to AI Fruit Love Island, BTS’ new album, and Meta losing a landmark series of lawsuits, they’ve got a lot to discuss.

Save or Scroll is our series where we team up with guests for a rapid-fire roundup of internet trends that are filling our feeds right now. At the end of each segment, they’ll decide: is the post just for the group chat, or should we save it for a future episode?

Guest:

Steffi Cao, culture journalist 

Further Reading/Listening:

More from Steffi Cao — Substack

Inside Clavicular’s Thirsty Tour of New York City — Kieran Press-Reynolds, GQ

Why Steroids Are Now Turning Young Men into Dangerous Incels — Steffi Cao, The Daily Beast  

‘Fruit Love Island’ is TikTok’s most popular AI-generated series. It’s now facing trouble in paradise — Jude Cramer, Fast Company 

There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos — Kat Tenbarge, Wired 

Who Decides If BTS’s Album ‘Arirang’ is ‘Korean Enough’? — Jiye Kim, Teen Vogue 

BTS’s Arirang comeback was supposed to be a triumph. What happened? — Nadira Goffe, Slate 

Meta and YouTube ordered to pay $3 million to young woman in social media addiction trial — Jasmine Mithani, The 19th

What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker 

The Truth About the Social Media Addiction Trial — Taylor Lorenz, Free Speech Friday  

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