MØRNING cheeky devils, and greetings to our new subscribers. We’ve covered a lot of ground at Burn After Reading this year. The hellish: our collective loss of reality, the state of shopping, how data is making us mid... The fun: girl domination, the return of sexiness, the popularisation of spirituality... and the pure mindfuckery: AI’s capacity for good & evil, the dupe boom, this year’s obsession with horses...
We’re deep in pre-2024 hibernation. But before we see you on the other side, here’s a final gift from us: our favourite articles from this year, in case your brains are in need of a deep-winter tickle. Gobble them quick before they're gone.
A must-read if you were given an existential crisis for Christmas
021 - Are we losing touch with reality?
How Big Data spawned the worst of culture in 2023, and how we can escape it next year
031 - Feel Mid? Blame Big Data
A bite of MØRNING’s inaugural trend report: Our meta-fantastical prediction for the future
030 - Enter: Meta-Fantasy
The investigation into dupes and counterfeits we never knew we needed
025 - The truth about dupes
A social media masterclass from the inimitable Elijah
026 - Social media is a canvas
A peek into the MØRNING hivemind as we investigate an intriguing equine trend
A 2023 update of a trend that’s been tracking since Covid: youth’s turn to religion and spirituality
022 - Are we all spiritual now?
Our investigation into what will surely become one of 2023’s legacies: the girlification of the internet
029 - Who run the web? Girls
We convinced Velvet Coke to let us BTS of her life as Instagram royalty
028 - Diary of an Archive Queen
A inspiring roadmap for the future of fashion, by Montreal’s Cameron Morse
027 - The future of fashion
A trip down the rabbit-hole that is e-shopping. Brace yourselves
Can AI really help us to be creative?
014 - AI: Friend or Foe?
Finally, was 2023 the year sex got its mojo back?
017 - How Sexy got back
That’s all for now. Thanks for all the love in 2023. We’ll see you very soon (and you catch more of our tricks on Instagram if you really can’t wait).
Until next time x