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Brendon Ellis2023/04/19< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Is That Still Mom’s Password?

Moochers, the embodiment of “Hey, are you done with that?” Whether you’ve done the mooching or been mooched from, you’ve likely experienced the awkwardness of sending a text ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/10/19< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Star Studded Streets

Stars are simply incredible. They brighten our nights, provide entertainment in the dark evenings after work, and are so incredibly dense and hot that it’s a wonder how they ...
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Cory Manento2022/10/05< 1 min read

TrendSegments: American Idol, GOAT Edition

Who is the greatest singer of all time? Since we unfortunately have not (yet) developed the technology to reanimate the corpses of late, legendary musical performers in order to ...
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Brendon Ellis2022/08/031 min read

Celebrity-in-Chief

In a short two years’ time, American voters’ attention will be forcibly trained on the 2024 Presidential election (thrust upon them by obnoxious SMS campaigns and equally ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/04/06< 1 min read

TrendSegments: What Does the Hand Say to the Face?

There are three things we do not talk about at Gradient: Bruno, Fight Club, and above all else, Jada Pinkett Smith. In this special edition of Trendlines, we break our silence on ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/02/161 min read

King of Disney Songs

If you are anything like us at Gradient, it is not enough just to enjoy something, you must rank it. Rank it in a systematic way with such fervor and detail that you become ...
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Cory Manento2022/02/02< 1 min read

What's the Wordle?

If you’ve spent any of the last two weeks within visible range of any sort of social media, you’ve likely seen a post looking something like this:
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Cory Manento2022/01/19< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Book Club, Hold the "Club"

Don’t assume that introverts are just home reading when they make up an excuse not to socialize. We classified introversion vs. extroversion using a personality dimension scale—as ...
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Brendon Ellis2022/01/191 min read

No Books for Old Men

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