Friday Fives

This week, we’re noticing the nicknames, debunking archival, cheering in the stands, singing in AI, and watching edits again and again.

This week, we’re tearing off our labels, calling back cursive, mourning the loss of junior designer jobs, fashioning a response to Fashion Week, and leaning into a blast from the past.

This week, we’re distancing ourselves from cringe, picking up our favorite cup, casting spells, being intentional, and loving community despite the commute.

This week, we’re bidding adieu to foodies, embracing the brace face, eyeing AI’s fashion moment, bro-ing out over makeovers, and scheming our alternate realities.

This week, we’re locking in to the max, serving up a new food review app, chatting with everyone’s favorite bot, eyeing celebrity sponsorships, and dancing for joy with Gap.

This week, we’re screaming for a teenage love triangle, smelling like social, defining luxury, raving about anime, and talking AI (literally).

This week, we’re raging about rebrands, musing about LinkedIn, drafting a congrats text to Taylor Swift, debating higher education, and applauding Gen Alpha’s movie enthusiasm.

This week, we’re ready for Swift marketing, watching Madison Avenue’s Hollywood debut, falling for sports fashion, sharing an office desk with AI, and rocking out to retail therapy.

This week, we’re craving something spicy, giving millennials their flowers, processing secret ads, loving Labubus (still), and checking in on GenAI-lpha.

This week, we’re posting our poshness, waltzing around the toy store, ditching hustle culture, content creating like we’re influencers, and hunkering down for Gen Alpha’s advertising era.

This week, we’re nostalgic for OG Instagram, crossing our fingers for a good review, watching the AI programmer trades courtside, mourning the loss of SEO, and marinating in the latest food trends.

This week, we’re musing about virality, investigating millennial-made products, identifying the person-type of 2025, discussing dupes, and making a case for marketing without AI.

This week, we’re staring back at Gen Z, bursting influencers’ bubbles, gaming with grandparents, judging books by their covers, and still talking about AI.

This week, we’re sipping brews at our favorite bank, missing the casual days of social media, doing business with AI, yearning for an era some of us weren’t alive in, and putting some serious thought into coolness.

This week, we’re doing a political fit check, crunching down on a food trend, dressing trashy to the core, down bad for tote bags, and digging for digital treasures.

This week, we’re branding for the culture, sipping sweet chili lime rum, buying tickets to the Kool-Aid movie, exploring AI literature, and getting a new taste of nostalgia.

This week, we’re revisiting modern work-life balance, never settling for average, emoting our exhaustion, no longer protecting our peace, and tumbling into an app comeback.

This week, we’re scrolling for supplements, going au naturel vibes with wine, channeling obsessions into creativity, getting comfy in a new trend, and filling our (coffee) cup while shopping.

This week, we’re breaking loose of the microtrend cycle, expanding our wardrobe of advertising, using our own brain power, getting shell-shocked over the egg crisis, and getting inspired by going retro.

This week, we’re reading into brand nicknames, feeling a whole new level of rejection, moving on from micro trends, working out of “The White Lotus,” and lining up for brand merchandise.

This week, we’re springing forward with butter yellow, looking out for labels, mourning our mascots, flexing our fresh produce, and un-gatekeeping the gatekeeping trend.

This week, we’re fawning over blue, giving Gorton the spotlight, lifting creative ideas from La La Land, traveling to cities for product names, and finding our Wayback.

This week, we’re googling the last year, taking style tips from J.Crew, generating AI videos, diving into some 2024 brand favorites, and getting catfished in the snack aisle.

This week, we’re dialing into a rebrand, playing tourist at Trader Joe’s, getting wooed by movie theaters, planning a checkup with Apple, and cozying up with the color brown.

This week, we’re doodling over AI Art, driving women’s design, sending Kamala Harris Brat memes, serving the community with branding, and saying “I do” to personalized weddings.

This week, we’re taking bets on rebrands, watching memes take the stage, bringing personalization to the bike lane, going online during off-season, and celebrating the big “5-0” for a 6-sided puzzle.

This week, we’re “working out” our dating lives, watching the rebirth of a controversial store, growing with direct-to-consumer brands, reusing our plastic cups, and tipping our hats to Von Dutch.

This week, we’re being extra with our slang, putting kombucha in our hair, buying tickets to film fandom culture, digging through the archives of fashion, and bringing beauty positivity to the court.

This week, we’re getting tasteful about design, going back in time with Nvidia, finding fakes at The RealReal, getting intimate with Instagram, and furniture shopping with Roblox.

This week, we’re biting into the Apple of AI, getting heated over PR gifting pollution, generating opinions on misinformation, playing Roblox at work, and getting therapy from Spotify.

This week, we’re climbing the Utah Jazz mountain of rebrands, celebrating plenty of new Fenty, placing an interest in product placement, attempting to curate a new digital culture, and expecting more than flicks from Netflix.

This week, we’re buying into the “no-buy” challenge, putting a pin in some summer trends, freshening up on a new term in branding, overworking our wellness, and catching on to offline socializing.

This week, we’re googling the latest AI feature, ordering up fast-food chain nostalgia, getting spiritual about our health, trying to get intel on getting into clubs, and receiving a reality check on Bravo celebs.

This week, we’re calling logos names, moving on “Up” with Airbnb, smelling a new trend for brick-and-mortar businesses, driving an uncool Chevy to the levee, and getting emotional about brand value.

This week, we’re mourning the loss of Foxtrot, observing the buying patterns of the youth, waking up to sleep tourism, fangirling out over fandom culture, and restoring our hopes in the home page.

This week, we’re crossing into new crossword territory, flirting with modern ways of dating, saying “I do” to brand loyalty, cooking up a new meeting place with IKEA, and adding up the cost of artificial intelligence.

This week, we’re getting familiar with startups, being influenced by AI, throwing it back to pre-Y2K, cuddling up to the stuffed toy resurgence, and feeling starstruck by celebrity brands.

This week, we’re shooting for the stars of marketing, jogging our brains on medal design, keeping it cool with a blue chat bubble, fighting climate change one mental health walk at a time, and applying for a brand deal to college.

This week, we’re taking our brands to go, setting our sights on solar-eclipse marketing, taking a byte into video game design, leaving our streaming blues in the past, and learning lessons in girlhood branding.

This week, we’re seeing a slam dunk for women in sports, following the branding Olympics, reviewing the lost art of music reviews, listening to the sounds of advertising, and snacking on childhood imagination.

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This week, we’re getting social the old-fashioned way, saying yee-haw to new Beyoncé songs, stressing out over baseball jersey fabrics, feeling safe with typefaces, and re-entering the world of tweenhood.

This week, we’re polishing up on a cleaning trend, whispering about the color purple, swinging in hot with a new golf brand, generating ideas about generative AI video, and swapping out dupes for the real deal.

This week, we’re McLovin a new skincare campaign, breaking the bank for Super Bowl ads, getting Meta about AI, parting ways with the eco-unfriendly, and getting lucky with Year of the Dragon packaging.

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