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Attachment style is something that seems to have gained a lot of popularity on social media, which can translate to real life interactions like dating. Everyone wants to have the “gold star” attachment style–secure attachment. Not everyone can have a secure attachment style, but that doesn’t mean they’ll never have one since this is not a fixed trait.

Shantel Smith, has a self proclaimed insecure attachment style, which can cause people to be a bit more guarded in their approach to interpersonal relationships. The social media creator recently made a video about what it’s like to have an insecure attachment style while integrating into a family that is very affectionate.

Smith recently got married and became a stepmother to three children. From the looks of the video, she is adored by her stepchildren and their father, but all of the affection seems to be a bit overwhelming for the new mom.

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In the video, Smith gets an unexpected hug from one of her step-kids and appears to be confused and uncomfortable. The next frame highlights “goodbye rituals” where we hear one of the children telling her bye before leaving but continuing to say “I love you” louder and louder until the new stepmom says it back.

Smith writes in the caption of her video, “there was love in my household as a child for sure but affection wasn’t shown the way it is now with my family that I’ve joined.”

The video struck a chord with several people in the comments who expressed their own discomfort with being affectionate due to their attachment style or upbringing.

@shantelmsmith Can you say insecure attachment?! This is me keeping it so vulnerable and real with yall. There was love in my household as a child for sure but affection wasn’t shown the way it is now with my family that I’ve joined. Sometimes i find myself asking like “what do they want from me?” Becasue people are not this verbally affectionatebynless they want something from you. Mercy. It truly is a blessing and I’m growing through it lol it is hard some days to receive love, we have in my household,but we have in our household what we call “i love you Shan sundays” thats the day when they can say it as many times as they like without me being weird about it. So im learning to recieve this abundant gift of love and joy and they are learning that its gonna take me some time. #familylife #familytime #parenting #affection #comedy #healing #traumahealing #marriage ♬ All The Way Up (feat. Infared) – Fat Joe & Remy Ma & French Montana

“Just overstimulated and mad after a certain amount of loving,” one person says.

“OMG I thought I was the only one thank you for making feel like others understand me,” another writes.

“I just felt so seen and triggered at the same time,” someone reveals.

“It’s crazy because I’m really trying but it feels weird and I love my family but why you hugging me,” one mom says.

“First time my dad said “I love you” I was 24 and I called my brothers bc I thought he was sick or something,” a commenter laughs.

Marrying into a family is a big step and takes some adjusting for everyone. While it seems like Smith is still learning, she reveals, “we have in our household what we call “i love you Shan Sundays” thats the day when they can say it as many times as they like without me being weird about it. So I’m learning to receive this abundant gift of love and joy and they are learning that its gonna take me some time.”

Language evolves as humanity evolves. We know this. History has proven it over and over again.

And yet, there’s still so much resistance when certain linguistic changes are tied to gender issues. The introduction of they/them pronouns comes to mind as an example. Many well-meaning, grammar nerds (myself included) bristled at the thought of incorporating this kind of language, even if they fully supported the idea behind the concept.

But when we get too stuck in the weeds of semantics, we miss the opportunity for vital transformative conversations.

Take for instance a video that came out around 2021—and the debate it sparked—when a little girl questioned why things were “man-made,” rather than “people-made.”

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In the clip (whose source is undetermined but shared across several platforms) the girl passionately explains to her mother how she heard the term in her social studies class, and how much it irked her, since it seemed to only regard men as creators.

“Aren’t women building the Eiffel Tower or something? Aren’t women allowed to build stuff?!” she exclaims.

She then refers to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which stated that “all men are created equal.”

“Aren’t women created equal too? Why don’t they say all people are created equal?!” she prods.

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Down in the comments, people applauded the little girl’s hilarious gusto.

“You go girl. Little genius,” one person wrote.

Another added, “keep that critical thinking cap on, little mama.”

As to be expected, many people also commented on how the little girl’s argument was unjustified, since, linguistically speaking, it is implied that both men and women are included in the word “man.”

“She is missing the point! Man in this sense is a plural word, meaning man and woman,” one person wrote.”

Another added, “I am so over this. Man made = huMAN, woMAN, MAN! The term is already inclusive of all genders. Stop looking for problems where there aren’t any. I’m so sick of this nonsense.”

But is it really nonsense? After all, we need only look to our Constitution to know that women have certainly not always been included in language that pertains to “all men.” Or we could look to all the many instances throughout history in which patriarchal values (that is, values which undermine a woman’s inherent and equal worth) silently shaped the way we lived our everyday lives.

Not to mention that this argument denies language’s true nature—to change along with our own levels of awareness. Perhaps the reality is that this little girl is performing her job as a member of the younger generation, by questioning things older generations might take for granted. After all, we don’t create change by not asking uncomfortable questions.

Bottom line: we have not always been an inclusive society. It is reflected in our language. As we collectively continue to become more inclusive, so too will that be reflected in our language. That’s a good thing. It’s a marker of progress. Think of all the energy we spend combating these inevitable changes when we could instead allow them to help us grow as people.

There are tons of mesmerizing fashion history videos online where women take viewers on a stylish adventure through Victorian gowns to flapper dresses to bell bottoms and beyond, just to showcase all the ways that women’s clothing has evolved.

But it’s been just as thrilling of a ride for men’s fashion, and Wisdom Kaye, dubbed “TikTok’s best dress guy” by Vogue, has a video to prove it.

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In a video titled “High Fashion Time Travel,” the model-stylist-photographer ambitiously takes us on a style journey that begins all the way back to 10,000 BCE, aka the Paleolithic Era.

Granted, folks from the Paleolithic Era wish they could have worn such luxurious pieces, but his inspired designs still remarkably capture the essences of each time period while adding his own artistic flair.

Did we mention he even “travels” to the future? Watch below:

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You might have noticed that after the 1900s, he gets very specific with which dates he’s representing (1954 vs the 1950s, for example). Perhaps this is to convey very particular, even fleeting trends that history was actually able to record. Which is certainly a nice touch, instead of applying a generic fashion identity to an entire time period. It’s almost like he’s really good at this?

With over 6 MILLION likes on Instagram alone, it feels safe to say that folks certainly think so.

“Can’t imagine the amount of time and effort you put into this🤯maaaaaad respect to you👏” one person wrote.

Another added, “the best thing my eyes have ever witnessed.”

It’s also interesting to see how, for both men and women, the 20th century forever changed the way we prioritize casual comfort (t-shirts FTW!) and how we continue to incorporate more diversity and experimentation with gender expression as a way to focus on self expression, and individuality. A special thanks to passionate folks like Kaye who can really convey our own ever evolving humanity through fashion.

By the way, there’s more eye candy where that came from. Kaye can seemingly make high fashion out of anything, from popular cartoon shows to comic characters to text fonts (yes, really), and will regularly take on fashion challenges prompted by his followers.

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Give his TikTok and Instagram a follow so you don’t miss out on any incredible looks he’s bound to be serving.

All Drake wanted to do was have some fun. But even folks on the country side aren’t having his Tupac cosplay. In an interview with BBC, country icon Sheryl Crow expressed her chagrin toward artists using AI in their music. Specifically, Drake’s use of AI to imitate Tupac’s voice on his Kendrick Lamar diss track, “Taylor Made Freestyle.”

“You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that,” Crow said. “I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn’t do it, but I’ll say sorry later.’ But it’s already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down. It’s hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”

The track was removed from online shortly after its release, largely in part to Tupac’s estate threatening a lawsuit. However, Crow says that Drake’s actions cannot be undone.

But luckily, she isn’t too shaken up about the possibility of AI creeping into the industry. Especially because artists can do what AI can’t — perform with live with pure, raw vocals and instrumentation.

“AI can do lots of things, but it can’t go out and play live,” Crow said. “So as long as we have live music, as long as we have hands holding a paintbrush, all is not lost.”

LeBron James has until the end of this week to decide what he’s doing with his player option with the Lakers, and if he chooses not to pick it up, he’ll become a free agent on Sunday evening when the NBA’s moratorium period opens at 6 p.m. ET on June 30.

While most expect LeBron to stay in Los Angeles, there are plenty of teams that would love to add the future Hall of Famer and would like the chance to pitch him on why a change of scenery might be his best bet for another championship run. The Sixers and Suns are known to have interest in James, but other teams would surely try to get a meeting as well. While the Chicago Bulls don’t really have a great case to make as a potential title contender, that hasn’t stopped Chicago native and Bulls fan Lil Durk from doing his best to recruit LeBron (and Bronny) to the Bulls.

Durk posted a screenshot of a message he sent James to his IG story on Tuesday recruiting him to Chicago, offering to pay half of LeBron’s salary himself if he has to.

I’m not sure Lil Durk’s accountant would agree with this offer, as James is eligible to sign a deal that would pay him more than $50 million annually, which would put Durk on the hook for a tidy $25+ million per year. That said, you have to respect the effort here to do whatever you can to help your favorite team. The Bulls can’t acquire James without a pretty complicated sign-and-trade, but honestly, I think plenty of Bulls fans would feel better about Lil Durk handling Chicago’s roster moves than Arturas Karnisovas at this point — especially after the Alex Caruso for Josh Giddey trade.

Denzel Curry’s new album King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 comes out in a little less than a month, and today, he shared the next single to help build its buzz. “Black Flag Freestyle” features Bay City, Texas rapper That Mexican OT, fresh off his selection as a XXL Freshman, and was debuted via a gritty performance on From The Block filmed in Houston in front of the legendary Screwed Up Records & Tapes store.

So far, King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 sounds like it’s a return to the Memphis trap sound that first launched Denzel’s career after his last album, Melt My Eyes, See Your Future, diverged into more therapeutic topics and sounds. The other single Denzel released, “Hot Ones,” also delved into dark samples from ’90s Memphis underground rap alongside TiaCorine and ASAP Ferg, another noted purveyor of the goth trap sound favored by the likes of Juicy J and Gimisum Family. Memphis underground legend Kingpin Skinny Pimp also appears on the tracklist, alongside Curry contemporaries like ASAP Rocky, Kenny Mason, Maxo Kream, Ski Mask the Slump God, and more.

Watch Denzel Curry’s From The Block performance of “Black Flag Freestyle” with That Mexican OT above.

King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 is out 7/19 via Loma Vista. Find more information here.

The long-running festival Life Is Beautiful is introducing a new format to the city of Las Vegas. Since 2013, the festival has been a staple of Sin City’s fall festivities. After a 2023 lineup including The Killers, Kendrick Lamar, and Odesza, this year, the festival is launching A Big Beautiful Block Party, a two-day party in downtown Las Vegas, with headliners Justice, Peggy Gou, and LCD Soundsystem. Jamie xx, Jungle, James Blake, Thundercat, Toro y Moi, BADBADNOTGOOD, Neil Frances, LP Giobbi, Empress Of, John Talabot, and Fifi are also all booked to perform, with no overlapping sets.

The festival will run from 5 PM to 2 AM on September 27-28, turning downtown Vegas into “a massive dance party.” While we don’t know exactly what this will look like, it certainly sound exciting. Tickets for the festival go on sale on Thursday, June 27, at 10 AM. You can find more information at lifeisbeautiful.com. General Admission passes start at $199, while VIP passes start at $399.

Turning the festival into a two-day event rolls the festival back from the three-day event that has been traditional since 2014. In 2022, the festival was acquired by new owners which include Penske Media Corporation and Rolling Stone, which could account for the revamped block party formatting.

While some people go on game shows to flex their knowledge or make money or just to get on TV, most people do not go on game shows while on drugs. Do you really want to stand in front of America during prime time if you aren’t in the right state of mind? Probably not. Which is why The Price Is Right isn’t on prime time, it’s a daytime show, so all bets are off there!

Drew Carey, who has been hosting the show for almost 18 years, says that he has seen it all. More specifically, he’s seen people in all different types of states, including those who are tripping on shrooms.

In an interview with TVInsider, Carey was asked about the “over the top” type of contestants. He has seen a lot of them. “Oh, that happens here all the time. They’ll have a gummy or I’ll smell alcohol on their breath. Not unusual,” he began.

Then he went even further. “There was a guy here that was tripping on mushrooms. He came with a bunch of friends. He was a sketch [comedy] guy. I found out later when I went to UCB [sketch improv theater, United Citizens Brigade] to hang out, and they were like, ‘Did you see that guy who claimed to be a skateboarding rabbi?’ I asked him what he did for a living. And he goes, ‘I’m a skateboarding rabbi.’ He didn’t think he was going to get picked, and he totally tripped.” Carey did not say if the contestant ended up winning a game of Plinko.

Luckily, Carey says he wants to stick around for a while. “I do have a goal: I want to keep going until I die. This is my 18th season. I’ve got to get the 35 and 41 so I can catch Bob Barker and Pat Sajak.” Nobody will be catching up to Pat Sajak anytime soon…he’s going to be a star!

(Via TV Insider)

While Lil Jon has been on a meditation and wellness kick for the past several months, he’s still best known for being the guy who questioned: “Turn Down For What?” Peloton has found a way to combine the high energy of Jon’s musical output with his new mission of promoting healthy living, incorporating his music into several of its classes, with Jon himself leading classes in riding and meditation on launch day, June 27.

“My meditation journey really led me to take on a more positive mindset, and has really helped drive awareness and access to the practice of meditation,” Jon told Billboard. “Everyone deserves to find an outlet that gives them moments of peace. I’m excited to join Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts [in the Meditation Class], I know what an influential force she is in the yoga and meditation space!”

The classes that Lil Jon’s music will support will include cycling, tread, row, meditation, and strength.

Later this summer, Lil Jon will join Pitbull and T-Pain on select dates of their Party After Dark Tour. Meanwhile, you can listen to his two guided meditation albums, Total Meditations and Manifest Abundance: Affirmations Of Personal Growth, both of which were released this year, now on all DSPs.

Every once in a while, a director will come around with an innovative movie idea. Richard Linklater filmed over the course of 12 years, while Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie over the course of 30 years, but he just used some CGI instead and shot it over six months. He’s a busy guy, so that makes sense. Robert Zemeckis is known for two things: his quirky, often CGI-infused movies, and working with Tom Hanks. Sometimes, those ideas coincide, and that’s how we end up with Here. And The Polar Express.

Here is based on the graphic novel of the same name which focuses on one central location over hundreds of years and into the future. Zemeckis wanted to apply this ideal to a film, and Here was born.

The movie stars who else but Tom Hanks alongside Robin Wright and takes place in one room over 100 years. “The single perspective never changes, but everything around it does,” Zemeckis told Vanity Fair. “It’s actually never been done before. There are similar scenes in very early silent movies, before the language of montage was invented. But other than that, yeah, it was a risky venture.”

Risky, yes. But also familiar to anyone who has ever been to The Happiest/Sweatiest Place on Earth, Disney World, and ridden the Carousel of Progress, a slow-moving ride that is essentially the same premise as Here and had everyone thinking the same thing.

There were even rumors several years ago that Hanks would one day take over as narrator for the Carousel of Progress, but he was too busy enjoying his life, so we can’t blame him for that.

Aside from the obvious Carousel of Progress jokes, the main issue here is that we seem to have gone too far with the de-aging tech. Why couldn’t they have just cast younger versions of Hanks? Who knows. Chet Hanks is obviously available! But a teenage version of Hanks in the year 2024 just seems… wrong.

That said, however Hanks looks, there is no way it could possibly be worse than The Polar Express.

Here is slated to hit theaters on November 15.