You’re about to be the most interesting person at your next cocktail party, client dinner, or 8 hour QBR meeting, because you’ve joined Click Clique, the monthly creative culture wrapup curated by the Wpromote Creative Department.
Pop by for a quick blast of fascinating, inspiring, imaginative, and straight-up weird bits bubbling up in culture. Then go forth and dazzle your friends and colleagues with a few epic nuggets of cultural gold.
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If "Felt monstrosities" is on your bingo card this week, you win!
Albuquerque artist Audrey Montoya describes her art thusly: "Embarrassing, like that hair cut you had in the 7th grade. Satisfying, like crunchy marshmallows. And sad, like that time your cat died." We don't know what Rembrandt wrote on his 'about me' page but it was definitely way less interesting.
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In case "Love Island" is too highbrow art for you.
"Fruit Love Island" is a new, AI-generated TikTok series taking after the totally real TV show 'Love Island.' AI fruits date, hook up, fight, and break up, which as a premise is so juicy that it gained over 3 million followers in about a week. Whether you admit publicly you're a fan is something to consider before your next job interview.
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Scientology Speedruns overtake Ding Dong Ditch as the #1 game teenagers think is a great idea but most definitely isn't.
Whether it's an homage to one of legendary Scientologist Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible stunts or just plain old internet hijinks, one rando TikToker filmed himself sprinting unannounced through a Scientology building, and it went viral as the kids say. Some Scientology buildings have literally taken the external handles off their doors to stop it. If founder L. Ron Hubbard wasn't extremely dead, you know he'd be lacing up the track shoes to chase down these wannabe meme-lords.
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Trees put on a psychedelic light show during thunderstorms, reports team of scientists who maintain they are not currently on drugs.
A new article published in America's favorite bathroom rag "Geophysical Research Letters" reports that trees emit ultraviolet sparkles called coronae during thunderstorms. These are the first direct observations of the weak electrical discharges trees emit to offset the electrical imbalance between clouds and earth. However, they are too faint for the naked eye, so ordinary people will have to rely on mushrooms and weed to see them next time they're car camping.
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50,000 toilets worth of water are being sacrificed so the Western U.S. can plug in their air fryers.
After the driest winter on record, the water level in Utah's Lake Powell is so low that the hydropower generators may stop working, putting electicity at risk for most of the Western states. To fix this, they will release a third of the water in the upstream Flaming Gorge Reservoir, equivalent to 50,000 toilet flushes. OK, so the toilet thing was figure of speech, get off our back, we're not above a little click bait to get people properly freaked out about our water crisis.
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