Share: BookTok’s infatuation with mediocre writing padded by spicy, sexy romance has resulted in a surge of “fast fashion books” to capitalize on this demand. You’ll find the latest celebrity author obsession or one of those samey flowery, pastel-covered romance novels under the #BookTok shelf. Modern literature has decreased in quality after BookTok began promoting anything with a hint of digestible smut, oversaturating the publishing industry and burying genuinely well-crafted novels with the same spin of fantasy and romance. BookTok doesn’t hide their love for …
Pump the breaks on Waymo
Share: As California looks to be carbon neutral by 2045, San Francisco has taken another step towards a cleaner future, as Waymo, a driverless robotaxi, has been released onto the Bay Area streets. The decision made by San Francisco city officials has raised concerns on how reliable the autonomous driving cars will be compared to Uber, Lyft or taxis. How will Waymo deal with human error, one of the largest issues we face on a daily basis? Their solution if somebody forgets their phone or …
Aaron Donald’s abrupt retirement wrecks the Rams’ future
Share: On Mar. 15, Aaron Donald shocked both Rams and NFL fans by announcing that he was retiring after only ten seasons. The announcement came after reports stated Donald was likely to play in 2024. The question is: Is it too early? In the Rams’ Super Bowl year in 2021, Donald put up 12.5 sacks in the regular season and added 3.5 sacks during their playoff run. He’s the reason Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow wasn’t able to convert that 4th and 1 play in the …
Character appropriation: Zack Snyder doesn’t respect comics canon
Share: Zack Snyder doesn’t get comic books. It’s by no means a new sentiment, in fact, Snyder has been ripped to shreds time and time again over his views going back as far as when he completely butchered “Watchmen” in 2009. But those transgressions and concepts almost pale in comparison to his most recent statements that lit comic-book fandoms everywhere ablaze. This time around instead of mildly polarizing audiences with his films, Snyder went straight for the jugular and took a critical stance on Batman’s …
EDITORIAL: Angelenos aren’t ready for the Olympics and neither is the city
Share: Despite being years away, the 2028 Olympics loom over the heads of all Angelenos in the greater LA county area. While the prospect of an economic boom looks appealing, the question remains: Can the city be fully prepared for this? The answer is a very eye-opening “no” unless significant change can be spurred in four years. Los Angeles is home to about 3.849 million people as of the 2020 census, but within that colossal figure lies a vast number of people without homes. As …
Dodgers must earn our trust for their postseason disappointments
Share: If you want to read the opposing opinion to this article click here Just because Shohei Ohtani is the newest and biggest Dodger in town, and the team is likely to make it to the playoffs again, doesn’t erase the years of playoff disappointments. Nor should it alleviate fans’ growing skepticism about the Dodgers’ chances of winning in the World Series again. For the burning question of whether this will be the best Dodger season ever with the best lineup in Dodger history? No …
Rush the court, but keep your madness in the stands this March
Share: It’s a part of the college culture to storm the court after a big time upset against a superior team, and there’s nothing wrong with this. But on two different occasions in the same year, two of the biggest names in this year’s class both got ran into by fans. This cannot happen, ever. Kyle Filipowski and Caitlin Clark, two top tier collegiate basketball players who will be making a lot of noise in the NCAA tournament this year, coincidentally were hit with minor …
The 2024 star-studded Dodgers will be the greatest of all time
Share: If you want to read the opposing opinion to this article click here With all their key acquisitions this winter, this Dodgers team looks poised to win their eighth World Series title. Is it bold to already crown the 2024 Dodgers World Series champions, after continuously falling short in the postseason year in and year out? Can Shohei Ohtani already have a championship ring to put on his finger in his first year as a Dodger after wasting six of them with the Angels? …
The Supreme Court justices are wrong, even when they’re right
Share: “SCOTUS.” Just the sound of it makes skin crawl, doesn’t it? The abbreviation may look fine on paper, but saying it out loud feels brutish and vulgar. But then, “brutish and vulgar” is an apt description of the Court in the last few years. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS has felt increasingly out of touch with the desires of the American people. Multiple surveys in 2023, including Gallup and the Pew Research Center, showed public trust in the Supreme Court to …
Studios are killing animators for the sake of money
Share: Corporations are horrible, and they ruin everything. They take passion away from projects that require a lot of it. Unfortunately, when art is being made, and it ends up in the hands of greedy corporate executives, there are bound to be unrealistic expectations regarding how long it takes to make it perfect, let alone even passable for release. With all of that being said, big-game animation studios, most notably MAPPA studios, have had a history of abusing their animators to their breaking points, turning …