Kayla Nicole, Globalized: How One Influencer’s Split Became a Multilateral Trade Dispute PARIS—It is a truth universally acknowledged that when two Americans quarrel on Instagram, the rest of the planet feels an immediate, involuntary urge to pick a side, monetize the fallout, and then pretend it was all a masterclass in soft-power diplomacy. Such is…
The Curious Case of Draya Michele: How a Former Reality-TV Fixture Became a Global Brand in an Age of Manufactured Fame By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk If you’ve ever wondered how a 39-year-old woman from Reading, Pennsylvania, can command the attention span of teenagers in Lagos, São Paulo, and Seoul simultaneously—without singing, governing, or inventing…
PARIS – In the long, tedious annals of human attention‐seeking, few phenomena travel faster than a twenty-something American who can contort his face like Silly Putty and speak fluent internet. Enter Drew “Druski” Desbordes, a Georgian (the state, not the country) whose primary export is the sort of manic befuddlement that translates into every language…
