One Person Trends

Gawker points us to the faux-news blog One Person Trend Stories, a tumblog featuring some “trend pieces that only need one person”. The anonymous author of the blog covers such of-the-moment phenomena as the rise of abbreviated email sign-offs (eg “Yrs” and “XOXO”) and the hipsterization of every other block in Brooklyn through her satirical articles, poking fun at many-a-journos tendency to extrapolate universal cultural trends from anecdotal stories and single-person profiles. The blog itself, while a parody of these kinds of insights, provides some clever commentary on modern urban life (particularly that of NYC). A snippet from one of his/her revelatory investigations:

Perms are Back

Permanent waves, the curly, chemically created hairstyle, haven’t been popular since the 80s, but wandering past a salon one day, Melissa Martin, 30, thought the time was ripe to bring it back.
“I suddenly wanted corkscrew curls,” she said. So she got a spiral perm. Melissa says the look is very now. “It’s retro, like it reminds me of the the girl from Just the Ten of Us, but it’s also current, because of Sarah Jessica Parker.”

One Person Trend Stories

[via Gawker]