Vintage store clerks should all be given honorary PhDs is advertising discourse tbh. Every last one of us! And leaving the quote featured at the end of the reel here for ease [from last week’s Atlantic]: ‘The Sweeney controversy is predictable, but even the idea that it has become “discourse” is a misnomer, Warzel argues: None of the participants—be they bloggers, randos on X, or people leaving Instagram comments—are really talking to the others. “The trajectory of all this is well rehearsed at