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🧵 The Short, Weird History of Fake Futures
Why we keep imagining tomorrow wrong—and why it always looks the same.
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 The Accidental Invention of the Slinky
How a Falling Spring Became a Toy Store Legend
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 A diVine Intervention: What if the Internet’s just... tired?
diVine’s revival pokes at our craving for realness in a world that forgot how.
 • The Orbit and Sarah Ylm
🧵 Why Labubu Looks Like It Just Ate Your Dreams
and Why That’s Hot.
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 How Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ Slogan Was Inspired by a… Death Row Inmate?
The surprising (and kinda creepy) origin story of Nike’s iconic phrase.
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 The Max Headroom Hijacking
The Night TV Lost Its Mind
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 How to Be Gaslit by a Digital Pet
Emotional Design or Just Straight-Up Manipulation?
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 Who Gave Helvetica So Much Power?
A history of the world’s most boringly dominant font
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵When Sony Made a Fake Hipster Blog to Sell PSPs
and the internet roasted them for it.
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 The Day MySpace Died
How We Lost 12 Years of Internet History Overnight
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 Why The Room Became the Best Worst Movie Ever
The story behind Tommy Wiseau’s so bad it’s good cult classic.
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
🧵 The Monster Energy Conspiracy Theory That Convinced Boomers It Was Satanic
Ah, Monster Energy. The drink of choice for sleep-deprived college students, extreme sports fanatics, gamers running on pure adrenaline, and me - a…
 • The Orbit and Marta Litson
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