It seems to me that it's about the certain online trends that will make a break in

influencers following count.

It feels very, yeah, like that's just what it seems like to me.

It's almost like when you know that a movie star, like a K-pop star doesn't have a boyfriend

or they're not allowed to date because that that's

bad to the publicity. That's what this article is about to me. I'm like, this isn't about real

people. On the same note, I was making me think, I recently watched the Simpsons episode where

it's sort of a parody of the Beatles. Homer enters a barbershop quartet and they become famous and

he has to tell Marge that he has to pretend that she like she has to sort of like hide her existence

because he has to remain single and datable. Obviously parodying the fact that that's actually what

happened to the Beatles real life wives. And I'm like people have been doing this forever. I also just watched singing in the rain. It's like, you know, people have been sort of like hiding their relationships forever. It's always been a branding thing. I don't think it's necessarily gendered. Yeah, I don't, I agree that I don't think it's necessarily gendered. Yeah, it's peddling like a pretty capitalist logic. It has a quote that says outright that boyfriends are out of style. And it just feels like, I don't know, that kind of like render human beings obsolete because they aren't performing to certain standards of what's on trend. Like what'll work for my image? And to me, it just really also ties back to this conversation Hannah and I had in our AI boyfriends episode. In some ways I agree, but it also just feels like this kind of heteropessimist opt-out argument just fuels that whole concept of self-optimization. Having a boyfriend and stuff sort of like blip in the process to making as much money as possible, being your most optimized self for social media. Nowhere in this article, does she talk about like turning to friends or family or kinship? She really barely discusses that. All she talks really about is how it'll strengthen our personal

brands. It also treats it like it's really easy to just get a boyfriend if you want one

for the brand. And then it's like, I'm sorry, that takes work sometimes. That's not that easy.

It's not that easy.

Like where are you getting all these boys from?

I'm sorry.

Like what boys store are you shopping at, girl?