Bare Minimum Monday
Deliberately starting the week gently to avoid burnout.
Deliberately starting the week gently to avoid burnout.
Matching your effort to your pay rather than working beyond what you're compensated for.
Doing your job as described and nothing more — declining unpaid extra effort.
An aesthetic of using what you already own — worn-out clothes, half-empty products, no new purchases.
A deliberate choice to prioritise ease, rest and comfort over struggle and hustle.
An aesthetic of sharp late-1990s corporate dress — pencil skirts, thin-framed glasses, kitten heels.
An aesthetic imitating inherited wealth — tailoring, tennis whites, boat shoes, no logos.
Expensive clothing with no visible branding — wealth signalled through quality rather than logos.
Repetitive gameplay done to accumulate progress, currency or items.
Managing your public identity as though you were a product with consistent positioning.
User-Generated Content — and, as a job title, someone paid to make brand content that looks user-made.
A phrase pointing followers to the single clickable link on a profile.
Telling your audience what not to buy — a reaction against constant product recommendation.
Sponsored content — a post paid for by a brand, usually with a disclosure tag.
Someone whose online following gives them commercial power over what their audience buys.
Online influence and visibility, treated as a resource people accumulate.
The predictable decay of online platforms as they squeeze users and then business customers for profit.
Forced enthusiasm masking distress — smiling through it.
Acknowledgement — but read by many younger users as passive-aggressive or dismissive.
An ironic motto mocking corporate feminism by pairing empowerment language with manipulative behaviour.
A deliberate misspelling of "stocks", used to joke about bad financial decisions.
Luxurious, high-end, expensive in taste — sometimes admiringly, sometimes mockingly.
Completely focused, in the zone, fully committed to a task.