Vox

JUNE 23, 2021

Rachel Reichenbach likes to joke that she is the overlord of an internet frog cult. Reichenbach, who is also a full-time college student in California, began selling keychains, pins, plushies, apparel, and other paraphernalia of her amphibian sketches in 2019, and as her Instagram audience grew, so did her sales.

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Tools Social Apparel Media 64

Vox

AUGUST 12, 2020

But in a time of social unrest, these text-based slideshow graphics have found new resonance and an eager audience on the platform, which has been notorious for prioritizing still images over text. How to protest virtually. Defunding the police. Mail-in voting. Turkey’s concerning femicide rate. The crisis that’s afflicting Lebanon.

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Social Advertising Journal Media 145

The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

And esports teams, like Gen.g , shared designs of their jerseys for players to use, while 100 Thieves added its entire apparel collection to the game. Also throughout April (and beyond): New Horizons’ turnips bring the internet together. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Image: Monterey Bay Aquarium on Twitch.

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Virtualization Video Apparel Banking 98

Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Well, no: $300 worth of coupons, which, on Temu, can buy you selected home goods, cutesy electronics, apparel — really, anything you can imagine. It’s virtual aisle after virtual aisle of amusing, offbeat, baffling objects and gag gifts, a Dollar General mixed with Etsy, with a dash of Spencer’s.

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Retail Apparel Company Analysis 134

The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Shopify is one of those companies that makes the modern internet go — it makes software that allows businesses of all sizes to set up online stores, and from there it can handle everything from shipping orders to financing loans for expansion. We wanted to sell snowboards on the internet. You’re not running a social media platform.

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