🍪 Pinterest's crystal ball

Top of the mornin’ to ya, friends. This is Bite Sized Beta, your trusty hunting dog. We sniff out tech news so you don’t have to.

Let’s get to the good stuff.

In the oven this week:

  • 🔮 Pinterest predicts future

  • 🍪 Cookie crumbs: bite-sized headlines

  • 🍫 Chocolate chips: our 4 favorite finds of the week

  • 😂 Snickerdoodles: Thursday memes

FRESHLY BAKED

PINTEREST PREDICTS THE FUTURE

Artwork featuring an old woman with a birthday cake and balloons around her.

Pinterest released a report on the top 27 emerging lifestyle trends for 2023 - and before you roll your eyes at another garbage report, get this:

For the last 3 years, 80% of their report predictions came true.

I mean, is your horoscope even that accurate?? This is as close to psychic as we can get, people!

It makes sense, since people tend to use Pinterest to plan for the future. So based on searches and pins, they can determine what’s gonna be hot soon.

Here’s a peek at the most interesting trends to come:

  1. Boomers and Gen X are gonna plan epic parties. The trending searches that led to this prediction? 100th birthday party ideas (+50%), 50th anniversary cookies decorated (+135%), and 80th birthday party decorations (+85%). Grandma’s ready to rage.

  2. Superfoods and supplements from the sea: chlorophyll, green algae, seaweed snacks. Huberman, WYA??

  3. A renewed focus on good posture and stretching. Ever heard of a neck hump exercise? Yeah us either… but apparently searches for “neck hump exercises” are up 210%. We looked it up and it turns out, neck hump (aka buffalo hump LOL) = a lump right under the back of your neck you get from slouching too much.

  4. Train travel is gonna make a huge comeback, mostly driven by the IG train aesthetic and a push towards eco-friendliness.

  5. The healthy, non-alcoholic lifestyle will get more popular. That means a lot more mocktails and low-ABV drinks hitting the grocery stores this year.

  6. Parties, but for your dog. That’s right, little Rudolpho is about to get a pool party all for himself.

  7. Gen X and Millennials will get more budget conscious and money saving challenges and games will become a lot more popular

  8. Old stuff in your home. Interior decor will evolve to mix modern and more antique pieces. Translation: vintage stuff is about to get a lot more expensive.

  9. Fashion that looks like your favorite 2000s romantic comedy. Who says fashion doesn’t come back around?

BRB going to look for some neck hump exercises..

COOKIE CRUMBS

BITE SIZED TREATS

What happened in tech this week:

OpenAI dropped a fun tool to help determine whether a piece of text was AI-generated. We just ran this newsletter through it and guess what the response was? “The classifier considers the text to be very unlikely AI-generated.” Human creativity FTW, let’s go!!

Speaking of OpenAI, it launched ChatGPT Plus yesterday for 20 bucks a month. Kind of a lot unless you’re using it for business.. let’s see who forks up the cost.

Elon’s bringing payments to Twitter. Superapp is happening…

Meta just announced it's doing a $40 billion stock buyback and the stock is ripping, up 30%. $40B could have funded the Series A’s of all US startups last year. Pretty wild.

OG IG co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back with an app called Artifact, a personalized feed of news that lets you discuss the articles with friends. People are calling it TikTok for text. Hmm why does this sound kinda familiar??? *Cough* Twitter *Cough*

Buzzfeed is now going to start using ChatGPT to write its articles, and the stock is up 150% since the announcement. What will happen to the writers? TBD 👀

A big NFT trademark trial started this week: Hermès is suing artist Mason Rothschild, who created 100 NFTs with art resembling the Birkin handbag, calling it MetaBirkins. The collection created $1M in sales on OpenSea in 2021. Hermès says it trademark infringement, Rothschild says it's free speech. on its

CHOCOLATE CHIPS

OUR FAVORITE FINDS

SNICKERDOODLES

THURSDAY MEMES

A tweet that reads: people hate on living in NYC but where else can you pay $7 for coffee, $5,000 for a 1 bedroom apartment, and $25 for cocktails?
A meme that says, forwarding an email that someone claimed you never sent.
A tweet that says, I for one am fine with the AI bots writing the "What Your Favorite Pasta Shape Says About Your Childhood Trauma" articles

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That's all we got for ya this week, folks. See ya next Thursday!

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