Julia Garner is returning to Netflix with a series billed as Gen Z’s Bonnie and Clyde; Chloë Grace Moretz is starring in a rom-com called Love Language; Intimissimi tapped Heidi Klum and her 22-year-old daughter Leni for its newest campaign; and Sadie Sink, the 24-year-old Stranger Things star with 35M Instagram followers, “drove a truly remarkable share” of virality during fashion month.
NEED HELP PAYING FOR COLLEGE? TRY BASS FISHING, nytimes
Just before sunrise one Saturday in August, 25 boats bobbed in a Tennessee marina for the final round of the Strike King Bassmaster High School National Championship, where 18-year-old Caige Bragg of Alabama hauled in three fish weighing 11 pounds 3 ounces to beat 213 other teams and take home a $25,000 boat and a $5,000 college scholarship. “I just love fishing for bass, to be honest,” Bragg said. “There’s always a puzzle every time. It’s kind of like chess.” The sport’s sanctioning body now counts 12,000 anglers in 1,100 high school and youth clubs across 35 states — double what it was a decade ago — and roughly 600 colleges offer fishing programs. Scholarships aside, Bragg plans to skip college and fish for a living.
THE RACE IS ALREADY ON FOR NEXT SUMMER’S $50,000 INTERNSHIPS, wsj
A month into school, elite firms like Citadel and Jane Street have already begun recruiting for next summer’s internship spots that pay around $50,000 for ten weeks of work, with some programs now accepting under 1% of applicants. (“You’d have a better chance of getting into Harvard,” Callum Borchers writes.) When Karthik Kallam, an Ohio State computer science and statistics student, got his offer from Susquehanna International Group, “I asked a few times if they were saying the right number,” he says; he suspects his competitive chess and poker did more for him than his GPA, and recruiters sometimes turn up at collegiate tournaments for both games in search of “people who are uncannily good at playing the odds and anticipating what will happen next.”
EMMA CAMP WANTS GEN Z TO GROW UP, businessinsider
A 27-year-old writer for the Wall Street Journal’s “famously conservative” opinion page has shot from 25,000 to 125,000 followers on X in the past few weeks by posting short clips that aim to debunk anti-capitalist talking points, including a 75-second clip arguing rent control makes housing worse with nearly 5 million views. “I like being a debunker,” Emma Camp told Business Insider. “I love a story where I can come at it, like, a commonly held belief about what’s going on here is wrong.” A defense of supermarkets as proof capitalism works ended with her twirling through Whole Foods, sniffing an orange; it got 6.5 million views. One X user posted, “Not being hyperbolic when I say that Emma Camp might save America if she keeps doing these videos.”
THE BATTLE FOR KIPS BAY: MOVIE FANS VS. BIG MEDICINE, nymag
A hyperlocal story, but it also speaks to Gen Z’s moviegoing obsession: 25-year-old Jack Greenberg, a programmer born at NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital and now living a few blocks from the Kips Bay AMC 15, has seen 216 movies there in the past three years, according to a spreadsheet he keeps of his AMC rewards activity. The theater is slated to close at year’s end after 27 years so that NYU Langone — which has grown 376% in the tristate area since 2007 — can take over the space. Over 11,000 people have signed a petition to save it, local officials have joined rallies, and one creator’s video of herself crying on the lobby floor about the theater’s closure now has over 1.7 million views.
INSTAGRAM IS SORRY IT GAVE USERS TOO MUCH CREED, cnn
People have spent weeks confounded that no matter what they post on Instagram, from a sunset to a Caesar salad, the app keeps suggesting Creed’s 1999 hit “Higher” as the soundtrack. “I can’t prove it but pretty sure Creed is paying META to suggest their song ‘Higher’ on all Instagram Stories,” one person posted on X. For once, it’s not a stealth campaign underwritten by a record label — an Instagram spokesperson confirmed to CNN’s Teddy (T.M.) Brown that there is, in fact, a glitch, which they’re now working to fix. People have also theorized that Soulja Boy’s “Turn My Swag On” is being similarly boosted, but the spokesperson insists that one — a perfect song, btw — is genuinely popular on the platform.
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