OSCAR WEEKEND, A ROBINHOOD DEBIT CARD & DUCKS
It’s Oscar weekend, you guys!
Okay, yeah. I know what you’re probably thinking: Who cares about awards shows anymore? It’s just a bunch of rich people in fancy outfits—and I don’t even have cable television. To which I say: Fair. But, I still can’t pass up a chance to get together with my entertainment-loving friends and talk about the movies we loved this past year. If you’re the same, you’ll see Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer are co-hosting. After much chatter, WEST SIDE STORY star Rachel Zegler will be both attending and presenting. Beyoncé and Billie Eilish will perform. And if you skip the whole thing, we’ll be right here (on Instagram, anyway) the next morning with the recap of all the moments that felt worthy of the internet—and absolutely nothing else.
In only tangentially related news, you might remember that back at the 2020 Oscars, PARASITE director Bong Joon-ho said, “Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” And it seems like since then, people have actually taken heed. International hits like LUPIN and SQUID GAME have surprised streamers like Netflix in some cases, and the services have had a hard time keeping up with subtitling and dubbing of their popular content. For SQUID GAME, the company didn't have Italian subtitles available, and had to quickly turn them around as consumers wanted to watch. Netflix saw the same issue with LUPIN and Portuguese-speaking viewers. Translators like Holly Diener who worked on CALL MY AGENT encourage filmmakers to start thinking about this process early.
This week, Robinhood announced a brand-new debit card that will invest for you. The card gives users the option to round up their purchases to the next dollar, and then automatically invest that change. The stock trading app will incentivize investors to partake by giving users a bonus of between 10 and 100 percent (capped at $10) each week.
I can’t leave you without this scene of a mother duck teaching her many ducklings that it’s only ok to jump off a cliff if your mom does it first. I also loved this video of a guy who is blissfully still living in the summer of 2014.
—Darlene Kenney, Digital Strategist
