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The price that comes with multiple beauty products remains highly expensive. Numerous people do not recognize that the prices of beauty products exponentially changed since their establishment. Companies distributing beauty items may rip off and take advantage of customers if they do not know the value of their cosmetics.

The budget behind beauty

Valentina Gonzalez, Reporter
December 13, 2022
The Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) trend, or butt epidemic, widely known to reshape and enhance the backside area of a womans body, now seems to weaken. In the past decade, the rise in BBLs and women idolized for receiving the surgery increased. Questions of why they seemed to rise in popularity started with the celebrities who modified their bodies and influenced others to do the same throughout the years. The standard of beauty seemed to shift as the trend of body modifications increased as well, but just like all trends, they eventually died out.

A dying trend: BBL

Eladia Scott, Reporter
December 12, 2022
Companies continue to update their platforms with teens and kids as their target audience. Social media holds numerous dangers, including kids encountering predators and cyberbullying. Multiple interest groups, such as the Daily Citizen, believe the government should make social media platforms and verify kids age through third-party security platforms, like the Social Security Administration.

The Government should raise social media’s age limit

Divine Idiku, Reporter
November 1, 2022
The company of Buzzfeed and its numerous YouTube channels generated popularity in the 2010s. Since then, the channel continues to experience a decline from its glory days, with multiple fans growing disinterested. “I certainly have noticed a drop in views around the same period I stopped watching. I believe the main issue is the failure to produce quality content that keeps the audience captivated,” magnet sophomore Riley Kennard said.

How Buzzfeed lost its buzz

Ciara Whimbush, Reporter
October 24, 2022
From all four grade levels, NC students use BeReal to take pictures of their high school experiences. Inclusivity blossoms with BeReal, because students include each other for the subject or photographers of their pictures. “It’s huge at North Cobb! I’ve heard people during class say ‘The Bereal went off!’ or people asking each other to be in each others BeReals. The platform is constantly growing amongst teenagers especially,” senior Angelica Ricardo said.

BeReal peels back the layers of social media

Ciara Whimbush, Reporter
September 14, 2022
As society makes rapid advancements with technology, people become concerned with the amount of time others spend on their phones. With the number of differences between people in society, citizens feel forming relationships with people who share similar interests without technology defies reality. With people stuck in the digital universe, technology divides the world.

 The hard truth: technology makes the world lonelier

Jacey Cuffie , Reporter
May 11, 2022
In the present era, any young girl will most certainly acquire or possess items, like crop tops and non-traditional piercings, which society primarily correlates with teenagers. This contentious issue manifests itself in a variety of ways for a number of causes, media trends taking the role as one of them. Known to carry impressionable minds, these children strive to imitate those on social media, as well as older influential figures in their lives. At the end of the day, the ownership of these objects strips away children’s ability to properly enjoy their youth.

The younger the generation, the older they look

Erinn Gardner, Social Media editor
March 7, 2022
As Tik Tok gains more and more users due to attention and recognition, the users of the app soon find out about Tiktok “stars”. Giving attention to stars leads to the recognition of these stars, which led the Hype House to earn its own Netflix Series. Every time a scandal happens inside the house and it manages to become publicized, viewers find themselves wanting to know more about the scandal.

Netflix releases new series, “Hype House”

Valentina Gonzalez, Reporter
January 21, 2022
Experts work together to expose the truth behind societys addiction to technology in the Netflix documentary, “The Social Dilemma”. The tech industry uses psychology to manipulate the human mind and influence it subconsciously. American technology ethicist, Tristan Harris, expresses his disdain for such unethicality as this documentary unravels these vast tech issues and warns viewers about the inevitable destruction coming their way. In order to reach salvation, humanity must somehow overcome a creation that knows us better than we know ourselves.

Technology: the creation of utter destruction

Hannah Cuthbertson, Entertainment Editor
September 3, 2021
With over one thousand six hundred total episodes, the JRE stands as one of the world’s most famous podcasts. Rogan, who possesses knowledge and skills in multiple areas, typically tries to question and challenge his guests that visit the show. Fans of the JRE typically tend to learn more about the world around them with the information they gather from each guest. If Rogan’s high-profile guests fail to establish legitimacy, then possibly the millions of views that each episode collects builds a reputation.

5 additional underrated Joe Rogan podcasts

Peyton Stack, Co-Copy Editor
August 19, 2021
The making of the media: Evolution of social media

The making of the media: Evolution of social media

Ren Lloyd
May 14, 2021
“I go on Tiktok just to watch the tarot card videos because I am very interested in what my future will end up looking like,” said NC junior Kenneth Pagan-Portes. Tarot cards have appeared all over people’s for you pages on Tiktok. Mostly for telling people things like how their love life will turn out, and if/what a specific person, like somebody’s crush, thinks about them daily.

Tarot cards taking over TikTok

Marissa Amorose, Staff
March 16, 2021
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