What's In for 2024? What's Out?

Aiming for 68% accuracy

Another new year and another collection of bold predictions - some inclinations, some research, some hopefuls.

That Zine Thing had some hits and misses for 2023:

There was the good:

In: Roth IRAs, mushrooms, AI-assisted creativity, being old

Out: CBD, social media, requesting songs from the DJ (SHAME!)

And the bad:

In: Margaritavilles, referring to touchdowns as “tuddies”

Out: Having a podcast, social media, negronis (thankfully)

Hey, we can’t hit them all. And now for our 2024 predictions…..

IN:

• Community (as in human beings interacting, not the show)

• Religious/spiritual belief exploration

• Social positivity

• Social media anonymity

• Facebook groups (we need to buy/sell more stuff!)

• Reddit groups are in (we need to review/share more stuff!)

• Imagination

• Communal living - communal families, artist communes, “mommunes”

• Comfort - clothing, language, food

• Dressing formally in informal situations (what else do we do with all these “work” clothes?)

• Substack

• Older music

• Cooking at home (so easy with platforms like TikTok now)

• …but fast food is also totally in

• Nice chefs (opposite of Gordon Ramsay)

• Reheating food (more fish in the office microwave - yay)

• Cultural food exploration

• Calories

• Micro-learning

• Energy healing

• Vision boarding

• Saunas, obviously

OUT: 

• Trolling

• Mass sharing platforms

• Being your own brand

• Texting is out (too intimate - just DM me)

• News is out (too toxic)

• Being ultra-rich

• Living in an echo chamber

• Expensive food

• Knowing things (Ask more questions!)

• Being unique

• Having good taste (let’s get cringey)

• Yelling “Let’s Go!!!” at any positive outcome

We’d love to hear your comments on what we missed or what you predict to be way off. Don’t text us, though. That’s out.

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