Jajmau Jottings

Though the word 'Polyester' cannot be called totally unknown, it has even gained broad publicity almost around the world.  There is no marked debate about it. If not, its popularity would not have reached dizzying peaks. According to the Gen-Z lexicon, something "polyester" is a way of saying it feels cheap, mass-produced, low-effort, or inauthentic. It might look polished at first glance, but underneath the sheen, something about it feels artificial. By accepting it as a flawlessly clear word and providing it a whole fresh definition across social media, 'polyester' has officially entered Gen Z’s tongue, becoming a bit more surprisingly fresh way to call something frugal, generic, overly fabricated, or simply fake.  It was projected around TikTok to scorch an intensely exhaustive kind of video edit: the so-called "polyester edits", which normally featured characters like Spider-Man, with sludgy montages of rapidly glistening clips. These typically f...