The pandemic, Karens, crypto craziness: We’re over you, 2022
The rudeness pandemic, the actual pandemic and all things gray. There’s a lot to leave behind when 2022 comes to a close as uncertainty rules around the world.
The health crisis brought on the dawn of slow living, but it crushed many families forced to hustle for their lives. Karens went on the rise. Crypto currencies tanked. Pete Davidson’s love thing with Kim Kardashian made headlines.
A list of what we’re over as we hope for better times in 2023: millions of people already distrust?
Time will tell as other and otherwise healthy crypto companies face a liquidity crisis. And there’s the philanthropic implications of the FTX bankruptcy collapse here in the real world, since founder Sam Bankman-fried donated millions to numerous causes in “effective altruism” fashion.
The FTX bankruptcy filing followed a bruising of crypto companies throughout 2022, due in part to rising interest rates and the broader market downturn that has many investors rethinking their lust for risk. That includes mom-and-pop investors along for the ride.
While more people than ever before know what cryptocurrencies are, far fewer actually partake. Is it any wonder? Get it together, crypto. it took over as an alternative to beige and Tuscan brown. Gray took a tumble midyear but one doesn’t paint or swap out the couch as quickly as trends fade. We’ve been stuck with gray, thanks to TV home shows and social media loops.
“What would your reaction be if I told you that color is disappearing from the world? A graph suggesting that the color gray has become the dominant shade has been circulating on Tiktok, and boy does it have folks in a tizzy,” wrote Loney Abrams in Architectural Digest in October.
By that, she explained, the upset folks she mentioned stand firmly behind the notion that a lack of color “spells tragedy.”
Abrams, a Brooklyn artist and pop culture curator, speaks of the fixer-uppers of Chip and Joanna Gaines and the Calabasas compound of Kim Kardashian. And she cites Tash Bradley, a trained color psychologist who works for the U.K. wallpaper and paint brand Lick.
Bradley, Abrams wrote, points to the hustle-bustle of pre-pandemic life as one villain leading to The Great Gray Washing. Bradley, the interior design director for Lick, sees no psychological benefits to gray.
Many actual colors are calming. Find one. And speaking of design trends, quit turning around your books, pages out. Read one instead, perhaps a volume on color theory. started in late 2021 for the obsessives).
Davidson’s love roster has puzzled for years, stretching back to his MTV “Guy Code” days in 2013 while still a teenager, leading to his Carly Aquilino phase.
There were stops along the way with Cazzie David (Larry Davidson’s daughter), Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale (briefly), Kaia Gerber (even more briefly), and others, including his latest: model Emily Ratajkowski.
The “SNL” alum and selfdescribed — in appearance — “crack baby” is a paparazzi, social media, gossip monger magnet. Rather, his love life is.
As Ratajkowski mouthed recently in a Tiktok video to some random audio track while riding in a car: “I would be with multiple men. Also some women as well. Um, everyone’s hot but in an interesting way.”
So be it. Live your life, Pete. Can the rest of us stop chasing every relationshipconfirming kiss?