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Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bird.co/press/bird-introduces-bird-one-industrys-most-durable-e-scooter-for-sharing-and-ownership/\">Bird unveiled\u003c/a> a new scooter, Bird One, which it claims will last ten months. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lime-leapfrogs-bird-in-scooter-race-at-a-cost\">Reports suggest\u003c/a> that would be as much as ten times longer than their initial fleet lasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird launched in late 2017 in Santa Monica, and there's since been a rush of companies into the global scooter market, including Uber, Lyft, and Ford. Even if scooter companies survive price wars and can start making a buck, there's a natural limit to how high their prices can go. If you really love scooting everywhere, you can buy a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ridetwowheels.com/best-folding-electric-scooter/\">$300-$600\u003c/a> scooter yourself and save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Scooter NIMBYs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like Uber, AirBnB, and other sharing revolutionaries, scooter companies have already faced political backlash in reliably outraged cities like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/electric-scooter-backlash-bfd20cb8-08d0-467f-b79d-d798023e5bf7.html\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bird-scooter-vandalism-20180809-story.html\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>. They've proven annoying, even infuriating, to voters—and a regulatory clampdown has begun amid rising safety concerns. The city of Austin and the CDC recently released \u003ca href=\"https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Health/Epidemiology/APH_Dockless_Electric_Scooter_Study_5-2-19.pdf\">a study\u003c/a> that found there were about 20 injuries per 100,000 scooter rides, and that half of these were head injuries that could have been avoided if riders were wearing helmets. Such findings could increase calls for helmet regulations, which could damage the convenience that is critical to the hop-on-and-hop-off scooter-sharing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the political appeal of shareable scooters is the idea that they're good for the environment, but that's still debatable. If motorized scooters are replacing cars, then it's clearly a win. But they may be mainly replacing biking and walking, which makes them a loss—especially in markets where the power used to charge these scooters comes from dirty power plants. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Departments/PCD/Transportation/SharedMobility_UserSurveySummary_20190509_FINAL.PDF\">recent survey\u003c/a> in Santa Monica, Bird's home, suggests that scooters there are replacing a good portion of car trips, but there is still no rigorous evidence to back claims that flooding cities with shareable scooters reduces carbon emissions. There is, however, evidence that to suggest it's wasteful because these scooters are dying so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Unicorn Stampede\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Scootermania isn't just about scooters. It's about this entire bubbly era of tech. Tech watchers have come to call startups worth over a billion a \"unicorn.\" At first it was because they were hard to find. Today, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/04/17/the-wave-of-unicorn-ipos-reveals-silicon-valleys-groupthink\">four times\u003c/a> more unicorns than there were in 2013. Last year, VC funding for private companies hit \u003ca href=\"https://pitchbook.com/media/press-releases/us-venture-capital-investment-reached-1309-billion-in-2018-surpassing-dot-com-era\">a high of $131 billion\u003c/a>, which is past the heights of the 1990s that ended in a crash in nominal terms and close to it in real ones. The percentage of companies going public—despite being unprofitable—has hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/3/6/18249997/lyft-uber-ipo-public-profit\">a similar peak\u003c/a>. Uber, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/27/uber-one-of-only-3-unprofitable-companies-worth-more-than-50-billion.html\">remains unprofitable\u003c/a>, became one of those companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/tech/uber-wall-street-debut/index.html\">last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money being poured into money-losing companies is driven by an ideology—sometimes called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.blitzscaling.com/\">blitzscaling\u003c/a>\"—that values growth over profit. It's a belief that winners take all because of dynamics like \"network effects,\" a notion that a good or service becomes more valuable to users as more people use it and that achieving scale is important because competitors won't be able to catch up. (Think Google vs other search engines). But it's not really evident that the scooter business is winner-take-all, especially because spotting them on the street and downloading a free app is relatively easy. Even the CEO of Bird seems to acknowledge this, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lime-leapfrogs-bird-in-scooter-race-at-a-cost\">telling \u003cem>The Information\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that he doesn't believe market share is important for scooter profitability. Instead, he says, what's important is to actually stop losing money every time they buy and rent out a scooter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capitalists are now subsidizing consumers with \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/04/17/techs-new-stars-have-it-all-except-a-path-to-high-profits\">billions and billions\u003c/a> a year with the hope that the money-losing companies they back will become the next Google or Facebook. It has a bonus: you can now rent a scooter for a couple bucks courtesy of rich investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Did you enjoy this newsletter? Well, it looks even better in your inbox! You can \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=0f58426c20711c96eb86962aa75f80d116a3dbe482b720309a0cfc7e38ea8c236c54255f4ce3e0281ef7d857a5b06cc77cc907a188052e76\">sign up here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Will+Scootermania+End+With+A+Crash%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Big Scooter is worth billions of dollars. Is this a sign we're in another tech bubble?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1557860348,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1015},"headData":{"title":"Will Scootermania End With A Crash? | KQED","description":"Big Scooter is worth billions of dollars. Is this a sign we're in another tech bubble?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"111827 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=111827","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/05/14/will-scootermania-end-with-a-crash/","disqusTitle":"Will Scootermania End With A Crash?","nprImageCredit":"Tom Williams","nprByline":"Greg Rosalsky","nprImageAgency":"CQ-Roll Call,Inc.","nprStoryId":"723003882","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=723003882&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/05/14/723003882/will-scootermania-end-with-a-crash?ft=nprml&f=723003882","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 14 May 2019 06:30:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 14 May 2019 06:30:31 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 14 May 2019 06:30:31 -0400","path":"/pop/111827/will-scootermania-end-with-a-crash","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor's note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=0f58426c20711c96eb86962aa75f80d116a3dbe482b720309a0cfc7e38ea8c236c54255f4ce3e0281ef7d857a5b06cc77cc907a188052e76\">sign up here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric scooters have invaded the world's cities. They whiz down streets and lie abandoned in the middle of sidewalks, bringing both convenience and annoyance to citydwellers. There are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.crunchbase.com/lists/electric-scooter-and-bike-sharing/ab3db36e-6d78-43a9-a41e-153f5246b12a/organization.companies\">dozens\u003c/a> of scooter-sharing companies, and the two biggest, Bird and Lime, are \u003ca href=\"https://qz.com/1305719/electric-scooter-company-bird-is-the-fastest-startup-ever-to-become-a-unicorn/\">the fastest\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/06/15/scooter-startups-break-unicorn-speed-records-to-1.html\">startups\u003c/a> to reach a valuation of $1 billion in U.S. history. Each company is now valued at over $2 billion. Scooteristas claim it's a sign that they're revolutionizing transportation, but... really?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Scootermania\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Big Scooter argues that technology—electric motors, better batteries, GPS, and smartphones—has produced a system of shareable scooters that can solve infrastructure problems, decongest commutes, limit climate change, and make investors buckets of money. They're calling it the \"micromobility revolution.\" Last year, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/deec1b3bc84e41b88fb41aba0ea83c16\">38.5 million trips\u003c/a> on shareable e-scooters in the U.S., which is more than double the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business model of these companies is pretty simple: flood a city with hundreds of scooters for passersby to rent. You can locate and pay for them using your smartphone, and they typically cost $1 plus 15 cents per minute. Then leave them wherever you want.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Will Bird Economics Fly?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a couple bucks a ride, it takes about \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/our-insights/micromobilitys-15000-mile-checkup\">four\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/7/18253522/bird-platform-scooter-new-zealand-canada-latin-america\">six months\u003c/a> for companies just to break even on these scooters, and there's a big problem: the scooters aren't lasting that long. They're typically dead in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lime-leapfrogs-bird-in-scooter-race-at-a-cost\">less than a month\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://oversharing.substack.com/p/scooter-unit-economics-are-worse\">two\u003c/a>. They get abused by riders who have no incentive to maintain them—and they literally get left out in the rain and cold. They're also vandalized by people who hate them. The Instagram account \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/birdgraveyard/?hl=en\">Bird Graveyard\u003c/a> documents scooter destruction. It has more than 80,000 followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BxX1PgHFysW"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the rush to expand, companies have been using scooters that were not designed for commercial use. (Lime has had to recall theirs \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2018/11/11/lime-recalls-scooters-broken/\">multiple times\u003c/a>). Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bird.co/press/bird-introduces-bird-one-industrys-most-durable-e-scooter-for-sharing-and-ownership/\">Bird unveiled\u003c/a> a new scooter, Bird One, which it claims will last ten months. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lime-leapfrogs-bird-in-scooter-race-at-a-cost\">Reports suggest\u003c/a> that would be as much as ten times longer than their initial fleet lasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird launched in late 2017 in Santa Monica, and there's since been a rush of companies into the global scooter market, including Uber, Lyft, and Ford. Even if scooter companies survive price wars and can start making a buck, there's a natural limit to how high their prices can go. If you really love scooting everywhere, you can buy a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ridetwowheels.com/best-folding-electric-scooter/\">$300-$600\u003c/a> scooter yourself and save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Scooter NIMBYs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like Uber, AirBnB, and other sharing revolutionaries, scooter companies have already faced political backlash in reliably outraged cities like \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/electric-scooter-backlash-bfd20cb8-08d0-467f-b79d-d798023e5bf7.html\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bird-scooter-vandalism-20180809-story.html\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>. They've proven annoying, even infuriating, to voters—and a regulatory clampdown has begun amid rising safety concerns. The city of Austin and the CDC recently released \u003ca href=\"https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Health/Epidemiology/APH_Dockless_Electric_Scooter_Study_5-2-19.pdf\">a study\u003c/a> that found there were about 20 injuries per 100,000 scooter rides, and that half of these were head injuries that could have been avoided if riders were wearing helmets. Such findings could increase calls for helmet regulations, which could damage the convenience that is critical to the hop-on-and-hop-off scooter-sharing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the political appeal of shareable scooters is the idea that they're good for the environment, but that's still debatable. If motorized scooters are replacing cars, then it's clearly a win. But they may be mainly replacing biking and walking, which makes them a loss—especially in markets where the power used to charge these scooters comes from dirty power plants. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Departments/PCD/Transportation/SharedMobility_UserSurveySummary_20190509_FINAL.PDF\">recent survey\u003c/a> in Santa Monica, Bird's home, suggests that scooters there are replacing a good portion of car trips, but there is still no rigorous evidence to back claims that flooding cities with shareable scooters reduces carbon emissions. There is, however, evidence that to suggest it's wasteful because these scooters are dying so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Unicorn Stampede\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Scootermania isn't just about scooters. It's about this entire bubbly era of tech. Tech watchers have come to call startups worth over a billion a \"unicorn.\" At first it was because they were hard to find. Today, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/04/17/the-wave-of-unicorn-ipos-reveals-silicon-valleys-groupthink\">four times\u003c/a> more unicorns than there were in 2013. Last year, VC funding for private companies hit \u003ca href=\"https://pitchbook.com/media/press-releases/us-venture-capital-investment-reached-1309-billion-in-2018-surpassing-dot-com-era\">a high of $131 billion\u003c/a>, which is past the heights of the 1990s that ended in a crash in nominal terms and close to it in real ones. The percentage of companies going public—despite being unprofitable—has hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/3/6/18249997/lyft-uber-ipo-public-profit\">a similar peak\u003c/a>. Uber, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/27/uber-one-of-only-3-unprofitable-companies-worth-more-than-50-billion.html\">remains unprofitable\u003c/a>, became one of those companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/tech/uber-wall-street-debut/index.html\">last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money being poured into money-losing companies is driven by an ideology—sometimes called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.blitzscaling.com/\">blitzscaling\u003c/a>\"—that values growth over profit. It's a belief that winners take all because of dynamics like \"network effects,\" a notion that a good or service becomes more valuable to users as more people use it and that achieving scale is important because competitors won't be able to catch up. (Think Google vs other search engines). But it's not really evident that the scooter business is winner-take-all, especially because spotting them on the street and downloading a free app is relatively easy. Even the CEO of Bird seems to acknowledge this, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lime-leapfrogs-bird-in-scooter-race-at-a-cost\">telling \u003cem>The Information\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that he doesn't believe market share is important for scooter profitability. Instead, he says, what's important is to actually stop losing money every time they buy and rent out a scooter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capitalists are now subsidizing consumers with \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/04/17/techs-new-stars-have-it-all-except-a-path-to-high-profits\">billions and billions\u003c/a> a year with the hope that the money-losing companies they back will become the next Google or Facebook. It has a bonus: you can now rent a scooter for a couple bucks courtesy of rich investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Did you enjoy this newsletter? Well, it looks even better in your inbox! 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To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Will+Scootermania+End+With+A+Crash%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/111827/will-scootermania-end-with-a-crash","authors":["byline_pop_111827"],"categories":["pop_1155","pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_3218","pop_3217","pop_3495"],"featImg":"pop_111828","label":"pop"},"pop_111743":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_111743","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"111743","score":null,"sort":[1557776914000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"on-the-thinly-veiled-homophobia-in-tati-westbrooks-james-charles-video","title":"On The Thinly Veiled Homophobia In Tati Westbrook's James Charles Video","publishDate":1557776914,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Over the weekend, a whole bunch of drama kicked off between Cover Girl's first male ambassador, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCucot-Zp428OwkyRm2I7v2Q\">James Charles\u003c/a>, and his one time mentor, beauty blogger \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qk9TtGhBKCkoWz5qGJcGg\">Tati Westbrook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drama started after Charles endorsed Sugar Bear Hair vitamins, a direct rival company to Westbrook's Halo Beauty line. Westbrook was hurt over the slight—understandably so, given how much assistance she gave Charles in growing both his audience and income in the earlier part of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to explain her side of things and bid her old friend goodbye, Westbrook made a 43-minute video (\u003cem>43 minutes!\u003c/em>) in which she went into great detail about exactly what happened, when, and just how little Charles has given her in return, in terms of friendship, respect and, um, birthday party etiquette. To date, it has been viewed 34 million times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVZg4KjRxU&t=2313s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main takeaways from Westbrook's video are, essentially: James Charles is a terrible friend, an unapologetic narcissist, a master manipulator, an inappropriate dinner guest and a violator of other people's personal space. In short, she makes him sound like a nightmare to be around in any capacity, be it personal or professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's only one problem. The way that Westbrook describes Charles' sexual boundary issues are rooted in a fair amount of good old-fashioned homophobia. Here's what Tati says, 24 minutes in:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The last phone conversation that James Charles and I had, he [was] telling me about a situation that... literally made me want to vomit. Oh my God, you tried to trick a straight man into thinking he's gay yet again. And somehow, you're the victim. You know, it's really disgusting to manipulate someone's sexuality, especially when they are still, you know, emerging into adulthood and don't quite have everything figured out. Whether you're a woman, a man, gay, straight, bi, whatever sexual orientation you are, that is your personal call and it is not someone else's to take...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>First of all, Westbrook is implying here that sexual preference is something that can be forced onto others, which is not only the entire basis of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-involved/trevor-advocacy/50-bills-50-states/about-conversion-therapy/#sm.0000n9errd1bwdcw1s5jtbwaxujnf\">conversion therapy\u003c/a>, it's also the crux of what old homophobic PSAs used to say about gay men. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_NAl4AkmjU\">One from the 1960s\u003c/a> that came with a message about gay men being predators, particularly around young boys, described homosexuality as \"a sickness that’s not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbrook goes on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"How dare you laugh about it, and make meme after meme. and retweet this and that, and 'I love straight boys, I love straight boys,' and make it a joke.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Okay, Tati. Point taken. But straight women have been saying the very same things about gay men for decades. As such, there is a chance that Charles was just trying to flip that script. There's no way of knowing for sure, but it's also difficult to imagine Westbrook getting this upset about a straight woman frequently expressing an attraction to gay men. It definitely feels like a double standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbrook continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I loved meeting his parents. I was shocked that James, even then, was saying to his dad that every man is a little bit gay, and that there's no such thing as a straight man... So talking about that at the dinner table with his parents was kind of weird. Him talking explicitly about sex and things that he would like to do... Like, I thought around his parents that he would not behave this way, [but] it was just no big deal. Like 'sucking dick and cock'...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>First of all, James Charles clearly needs to get the phrase \"sexuality is a spectrum\" in rotation. But let's not forget, he's only 19, and this was a private conversation amongst the closest people in his life. Isn't that when we're our most unfiltered selves? Second, while talking about sex acts in front of one's parents is definitely creepy, if the parents are tolerating it at the dinner table with zero objections, that probably says more about them and his upbringing than anything else. Maybe this one is not entirely his fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now to the single craziest thing about this video. The lead is almost completely buried. In amongst all of that stuff about table manners and targeting straight men, Westbrook addresses Charles directly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"You are using your fame, your power, your money, to play with people's emotions. You're threatening to ruin them. You're threatening to embarrass them, and you're doing that to have them behave sexually in your favor, even if they're straight...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Um. Did Westbrook just suggest that Charles is sexually harassing and assaulting people, Harvey Weinstein-style? It would appear so. And if that's the case, what exactly is the point of the other 42 minutes of this video? If she is correct in her assertions, those incidents need to be documented, reported and investigated immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, as with the rest of this video, instead of focusing on the most serious and pressing issues at hand, Westbrook instead focuses on the fact that some of the people she alleges were targeted by Charles might have been heterosexual. There is a suggestion throughout this clip that gay people crossing lines with straight people is somehow worse than gay people crossing lines with gay people. It isn't. It's exactly the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There can be little doubt that James Charles has behaved badly on both a personal and professional level when it comes to Tati Westbrook. He himself admits that in an apology video directed at both Westbrook and her husband, James. In it, Charles says he's trying to learn from his mistakes and \"grow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ws6nxMk6I0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes Charles until the middle of his video to broach the subject of his behavior with other men. He offers only:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In regards to the boy situation, boys have been a topic that I've talked a lot about in my social media journey, and it's a topic that I wish I hadn't. I've been involved in a lot of very unique, strange situations that have left people confused or upset, and I've learned the hard way about ways that I can interact with boys that I'm interested in, and also ones that I should or shouldn't be talking to.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the world is already looking at James Charles differently. After Westbrook's video went viral, he lost 2.5 million YouTube subscribers almost instantly. But, no matter how awful he's behaved in his personal life, we shouldn't lose sight of the angle at which Tati Westbrook came at this from. Because on closer examination, her priorities seem almost as out of whack as Charles'.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The popular beauty blogger had plenty of valid reasons for being mad at James Charles, but some of what she said was tinged with homophobia.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1557778020,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1168},"headData":{"title":"On The Thinly Veiled Homophobia In Tati Westbrook's James Charles Video | KQED","description":"The popular beauty blogger had plenty of valid reasons for being mad at James Charles, but some of what she said was tinged with homophobia.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"111743 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=111743","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/05/13/on-the-thinly-veiled-homophobia-in-tati-westbrooks-james-charles-video/","disqusTitle":"On The Thinly Veiled Homophobia In Tati Westbrook's James Charles Video","path":"/pop/111743/on-the-thinly-veiled-homophobia-in-tati-westbrooks-james-charles-video","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Over the weekend, a whole bunch of drama kicked off between Cover Girl's first male ambassador, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCucot-Zp428OwkyRm2I7v2Q\">James Charles\u003c/a>, and his one time mentor, beauty blogger \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qk9TtGhBKCkoWz5qGJcGg\">Tati Westbrook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drama started after Charles endorsed Sugar Bear Hair vitamins, a direct rival company to Westbrook's Halo Beauty line. Westbrook was hurt over the slight—understandably so, given how much assistance she gave Charles in growing both his audience and income in the earlier part of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to explain her side of things and bid her old friend goodbye, Westbrook made a 43-minute video (\u003cem>43 minutes!\u003c/em>) in which she went into great detail about exactly what happened, when, and just how little Charles has given her in return, in terms of friendship, respect and, um, birthday party etiquette. To date, it has been viewed 34 million times.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PoVZg4KjRxU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PoVZg4KjRxU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The main takeaways from Westbrook's video are, essentially: James Charles is a terrible friend, an unapologetic narcissist, a master manipulator, an inappropriate dinner guest and a violator of other people's personal space. In short, she makes him sound like a nightmare to be around in any capacity, be it personal or professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's only one problem. The way that Westbrook describes Charles' sexual boundary issues are rooted in a fair amount of good old-fashioned homophobia. Here's what Tati says, 24 minutes in:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The last phone conversation that James Charles and I had, he [was] telling me about a situation that... literally made me want to vomit. Oh my God, you tried to trick a straight man into thinking he's gay yet again. And somehow, you're the victim. You know, it's really disgusting to manipulate someone's sexuality, especially when they are still, you know, emerging into adulthood and don't quite have everything figured out. Whether you're a woman, a man, gay, straight, bi, whatever sexual orientation you are, that is your personal call and it is not someone else's to take...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>First of all, Westbrook is implying here that sexual preference is something that can be forced onto others, which is not only the entire basis of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-involved/trevor-advocacy/50-bills-50-states/about-conversion-therapy/#sm.0000n9errd1bwdcw1s5jtbwaxujnf\">conversion therapy\u003c/a>, it's also the crux of what old homophobic PSAs used to say about gay men. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_NAl4AkmjU\">One from the 1960s\u003c/a> that came with a message about gay men being predators, particularly around young boys, described homosexuality as \"a sickness that’s not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbrook goes on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"How dare you laugh about it, and make meme after meme. and retweet this and that, and 'I love straight boys, I love straight boys,' and make it a joke.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Okay, Tati. Point taken. But straight women have been saying the very same things about gay men for decades. As such, there is a chance that Charles was just trying to flip that script. There's no way of knowing for sure, but it's also difficult to imagine Westbrook getting this upset about a straight woman frequently expressing an attraction to gay men. It definitely feels like a double standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbrook continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I loved meeting his parents. I was shocked that James, even then, was saying to his dad that every man is a little bit gay, and that there's no such thing as a straight man... So talking about that at the dinner table with his parents was kind of weird. Him talking explicitly about sex and things that he would like to do... Like, I thought around his parents that he would not behave this way, [but] it was just no big deal. Like 'sucking dick and cock'...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>First of all, James Charles clearly needs to get the phrase \"sexuality is a spectrum\" in rotation. But let's not forget, he's only 19, and this was a private conversation amongst the closest people in his life. Isn't that when we're our most unfiltered selves? Second, while talking about sex acts in front of one's parents is definitely creepy, if the parents are tolerating it at the dinner table with zero objections, that probably says more about them and his upbringing than anything else. Maybe this one is not entirely his fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now to the single craziest thing about this video. The lead is almost completely buried. In amongst all of that stuff about table manners and targeting straight men, Westbrook addresses Charles directly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"You are using your fame, your power, your money, to play with people's emotions. You're threatening to ruin them. You're threatening to embarrass them, and you're doing that to have them behave sexually in your favor, even if they're straight...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Um. Did Westbrook just suggest that Charles is sexually harassing and assaulting people, Harvey Weinstein-style? It would appear so. And if that's the case, what exactly is the point of the other 42 minutes of this video? If she is correct in her assertions, those incidents need to be documented, reported and investigated immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, as with the rest of this video, instead of focusing on the most serious and pressing issues at hand, Westbrook instead focuses on the fact that some of the people she alleges were targeted by Charles might have been heterosexual. There is a suggestion throughout this clip that gay people crossing lines with straight people is somehow worse than gay people crossing lines with gay people. It isn't. It's exactly the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There can be little doubt that James Charles has behaved badly on both a personal and professional level when it comes to Tati Westbrook. He himself admits that in an apology video directed at both Westbrook and her husband, James. In it, Charles says he's trying to learn from his mistakes and \"grow.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9ws6nxMk6I0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9ws6nxMk6I0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It takes Charles until the middle of his video to broach the subject of his behavior with other men. He offers only:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In regards to the boy situation, boys have been a topic that I've talked a lot about in my social media journey, and it's a topic that I wish I hadn't. I've been involved in a lot of very unique, strange situations that have left people confused or upset, and I've learned the hard way about ways that I can interact with boys that I'm interested in, and also ones that I should or shouldn't be talking to.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the world is already looking at James Charles differently. After Westbrook's video went viral, he lost 2.5 million YouTube subscribers almost instantly. But, no matter how awful he's behaved in his personal life, we shouldn't lose sight of the angle at which Tati Westbrook came at this from. Because on closer examination, her priorities seem almost as out of whack as Charles'.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/111743/on-the-thinly-veiled-homophobia-in-tati-westbrooks-james-charles-video","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_1155","pop_5"],"tags":["pop_3617","pop_3341","pop_3620","pop_3525","pop_3618","pop_3619","pop_311"],"featImg":"pop_111767","label":"pop"},"pop_111128":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_111128","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"111128","score":null,"sort":[1555572943000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pixars-sparkshorts-ignite-more-diversity-in-animation","title":"Pixar's SparkShorts Ignite More Diversity in Animation","publishDate":1555572943,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>It's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696471501/hollywood-diversity-report-finds-progress-but-much-left-to-gain\">difficult to become a director\u003c/a> if you're a woman or a person of color in Hollywood. It's even more difficult to become a director in animation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and 2017, only one major animation release—across Disney, Dreamworks, Universal, Warner Bros. and Fox—has been directed solely by women: \u003cem>Kung Fu Panda 2\u003c/em> (2011) by Jennifer Yuh Nelson. That statistic comes from Cartoon Brew, an independently-owned animation news site that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/second-year-row-women-will-not-direct-major-animation-releases-2018-155501.html\">tracked 104 animation releases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Pixar has launched SparkShorts, a series of short animated films designed to give women and people of color more leadership opportunities in animation. The first three films \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVg7pgd-JzP-DWROTsaMY8IDWElHMycx\">were released in February on YouTube\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS5cgybKcI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SparkShorts addresses the major problems in bringing along new directors for feature-length animation: long lead time and big budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we thought of how to get opportunities to future filmmakers quickly, there was a lot of discussion about what we could be doing in a different way,\" said Lindsey Collins, Pixar's vice president of development. \"And one of the things that came up was just how long it takes for one of our films to get made and therefore the runway for new filmmakers can be very long.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each SparkShort takes just six months to produce, compared with four to six years for animated feature films. The SparkShorts also have much smaller budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pixar Animation Studios declined to comment on specific budget costs. \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> reports that Pixar animated feature films \"generally cost roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/movies/coco-dominates-thanksgiving-weekend-box-office.html\">$175 million\u003c/a> to produce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said the idea for SparkShorts stemmed from the idea of art-school projects, where a film has to be produced on deadline with few resources: \"We said: What if we chose some filmmakers ... and said they could make a film as long as it was animated and was a narrative, character-based story, that they would be left alone and be given the resources to get a film up?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The First Batch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A goal of the SparkShorts program is gender parity, so each set of SparkShorts will feature an equal number of male and female directors. In February's release, two of the three films were directed by women (with three more films coming later this year). Future groups of SparkShorts will be released on a year-by-year basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the first stories, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo\">\u003cem>Purl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, is directed and produced by two women, Kristen Lester and Gillian Libbert-Duncan. It tells the story of a living pink ball of yarn named Purl, who is clearly out of place among her human, white, male colleagues. The short film echoes what it's like to be a woman working in a predominantly male office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what's particularly nice about \u003cem>Purl\u003c/em>'s reaction online is that people aren't clearly pointing out, like, 'Oh gosh, it doesn't feel like it's at the animation caliber of a theatrical short,' but are rather kind of smitten with the story,\" Collins said. \"And it's ultimately reassuring our philosophy here that if the story is great, the rest of the audience will be right there with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CeliaHodent/status/1099376966233247744\">audiences\u003c/a> are \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/maryamb/status/1094410065166114816\">focusing\u003c/a> more on the story's \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/unharmonic/status/1095447773586120706\">narrative\u003c/a> than with the quality of the animation of the SparkShorts films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's not this sense of not, like, 'Oh my gosh, I have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/15/619253624/in-pixars-first-female-directed-short-a-dumpling-child-fills-an-empty-nest\">go out in front of \u003cem>Incredibles 2\u003c/em>\u003c/a>' and I'm bearing this huge burden of: 'This has to be the most amazing short film ever,'\" Collins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first three SparkShorts to be released—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo\">\u003cem>Purl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS5cgybKcI\">\u003cem>Kitbull\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-G7YpSFb4&t=22s\">\u003cem>Smash and Grab\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—are available to watch on YouTube. The next three films will be released on Disney+, the company's just-announced consumer streaming service, in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-G7YpSFb4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the fall releases will be directed by people of color. Edwin Chang, a Korean-American, will direct\u003cem> Wind\u003c/em>, a magical realism story about a grandmother and grandson. And in Pixar's first animated short with Pinoy characters, Filipino-American Robert Rubio will direct \u003cem>Float\u003c/em>, a story about a father's instinct to protect his son—who has the ability to float in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Milsom, the last of the three women directors of this year's SparkShorts, will release \u003cem>Loop\u003c/em>, which tells the story of a non-verbal autistic girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said Pixar is trying to make two to four new SparkShorts per year, with the exception of the initial 2019 batch of six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hope is that if we keep going with these, that people will continue to get more opportunities,\" Collins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Changing The Boys Club\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The president of the non-profit organization Women in Animation, Marge Dean, has noticed that slowly, women are getting more opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So five years ago, I would say the animation industry was pretty much a boys' club,\" Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those opportunities really increased beginning in 2017. That's when the #MeToo movement took off after producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/555982871/harvey-weinstein\">Harvey Weinstein\u003c/a>, former Nickelodeon animator and \u003cem>The Loud House \u003c/em>creator Chris Savino, and Pixar's former chief creative officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565801354/pixars-john-lasseter-takes-leave-of-absence-after-harassment-allegations\">John Lasseter\u003c/a>—among others—were accused of sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean said the animation industry landscape has evolved since the arrival of #MeToo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That changed everything,\" she said. \"That's when everyone woke up and goes, 'No, we're serious about this.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's still a long way to go before women achieve equal representation. According to Women in Animation, \u003ca href=\"http://womeninanimation.org/5050-by-2025/\">60 percent of all animation and art-school students\u003c/a> are women, yet only 20 percent of creative jobs in the industry—producers, directors, writers, animators, and art and design jobs—are currently held by women. Women in Animation is aiming for parity by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the next step is getting women to get to the top,\" said Maureen Fan, who is an Asian-American woman and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.baobabstudios.com/about-us\">of Baobab Studios\u003c/a>. \"There's the grassroots bottom-up. But there's also top-down. Right, so, people tend to hire people like themselves. So if you end up having more diversity at the top, it will naturally also be bringing in more diverse perspectives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fan is pushing for more women and people of color in animation. The Baobab Studios animated short \u003cem>Crow: The Legend\u003c/em> is based on a Native American legend. Fan says she purposely cast the film largely with people of color, including John Legend, Oprah Winfrey and Constance Wu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO4PrtAKu2E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fan is also active in Gold House, a group of Asian American executives, founders, and A-list celebrities in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York City and elsewhere who \"help each other move up the corporate and cultural ladder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among their efforts is #GoldOpen, \"a system to drive Asian films to no.1 at the box office opening weekend through buyouts, theatrical and social network partnerships and viral social media campaigns. The Asian community movement bought out theaters to boost the box office numbers in summer 2018 for the release of \u003cem>Crazy Rich Asians\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Searching\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Burning \u003c/em>and more,\" Fan wrote in an email to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2018, Fan created a sub-group within Gold House to discuss how to create representation in animation: \"whether it's representing diverse viewpoints, meaning animation about different types of people and cultures, and also getting more diverse viewpoints behind the camera as well,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is also actively working to measure the profits of diversity on the big screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have more diversity points or you make films about different cultures and races, it makes good money in the box offices,\" Fan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, \u003cem>Coco\u003c/em> became the sixth highest-grossing Pixar animated feature film with a global box-office intake of $807.1 million. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/564385036/mexico-music-and-family-take-center-stage-in-coco\">The film takes place in Mexico\u003c/a> during Día de los Muertos—or Day of the Dead—and tells the story of a young Mexican boy who embarks on a journey to discover his family's history and, in the process, uses music to bring the memory of the dead back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And while I would like to be idealistic and say we're doing the right thing, I do think it always does come down to business,\" Fan said. \"And we do have to prove the financial worth of doing so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ted Robbins edited this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Pixar%27s+SparkShorts+Set+Out+To+Ignite+More+Diversity+in+Animation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since Pixar's former chief creative officer was accused of sexual misconduct, the company has made a conscious and deliberate effort to evolve.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1555572943,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1425},"headData":{"title":"Pixar's SparkShorts Ignite More Diversity in Animation | KQED","description":"Since Pixar's former chief creative officer was accused of sexual misconduct, the company has made a conscious and deliberate effort to evolve.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"111128 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=111128","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/04/18/pixars-sparkshorts-ignite-more-diversity-in-animation/","disqusTitle":"Pixar's SparkShorts Ignite More Diversity in Animation","nprByline":"Megan Schellong","nprImageAgency":"Pixar Animation Studios","nprStoryId":"709644139","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=709644139&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/709644139/pixars-sparkshorts-set-out-to-ignite-more-diversity-in-animation?ft=nprml&f=709644139","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:52:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:52:30 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:53:37 -0400","path":"/pop/111128/pixars-sparkshorts-ignite-more-diversity-in-animation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696471501/hollywood-diversity-report-finds-progress-but-much-left-to-gain\">difficult to become a director\u003c/a> if you're a woman or a person of color in Hollywood. It's even more difficult to become a director in animation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and 2017, only one major animation release—across Disney, Dreamworks, Universal, Warner Bros. and Fox—has been directed solely by women: \u003cem>Kung Fu Panda 2\u003c/em> (2011) by Jennifer Yuh Nelson. That statistic comes from Cartoon Brew, an independently-owned animation news site that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/second-year-row-women-will-not-direct-major-animation-releases-2018-155501.html\">tracked 104 animation releases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Pixar has launched SparkShorts, a series of short animated films designed to give women and people of color more leadership opportunities in animation. The first three films \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVg7pgd-JzP-DWROTsaMY8IDWElHMycx\">were released in February on YouTube\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/AZS5cgybKcI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/AZS5cgybKcI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>SparkShorts addresses the major problems in bringing along new directors for feature-length animation: long lead time and big budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we thought of how to get opportunities to future filmmakers quickly, there was a lot of discussion about what we could be doing in a different way,\" said Lindsey Collins, Pixar's vice president of development. \"And one of the things that came up was just how long it takes for one of our films to get made and therefore the runway for new filmmakers can be very long.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each SparkShort takes just six months to produce, compared with four to six years for animated feature films. The SparkShorts also have much smaller budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pixar Animation Studios declined to comment on specific budget costs. \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> reports that Pixar animated feature films \"generally cost roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/movies/coco-dominates-thanksgiving-weekend-box-office.html\">$175 million\u003c/a> to produce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said the idea for SparkShorts stemmed from the idea of art-school projects, where a film has to be produced on deadline with few resources: \"We said: What if we chose some filmmakers ... and said they could make a film as long as it was animated and was a narrative, character-based story, that they would be left alone and be given the resources to get a film up?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The First Batch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A goal of the SparkShorts program is gender parity, so each set of SparkShorts will feature an equal number of male and female directors. In February's release, two of the three films were directed by women (with three more films coming later this year). Future groups of SparkShorts will be released on a year-by-year basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the first stories, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo\">\u003cem>Purl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, is directed and produced by two women, Kristen Lester and Gillian Libbert-Duncan. It tells the story of a living pink ball of yarn named Purl, who is clearly out of place among her human, white, male colleagues. The short film echoes what it's like to be a woman working in a predominantly male office.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/B6uuIHpFkuo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/B6uuIHpFkuo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"So what's particularly nice about \u003cem>Purl\u003c/em>'s reaction online is that people aren't clearly pointing out, like, 'Oh gosh, it doesn't feel like it's at the animation caliber of a theatrical short,' but are rather kind of smitten with the story,\" Collins said. \"And it's ultimately reassuring our philosophy here that if the story is great, the rest of the audience will be right there with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CeliaHodent/status/1099376966233247744\">audiences\u003c/a> are \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/maryamb/status/1094410065166114816\">focusing\u003c/a> more on the story's \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/unharmonic/status/1095447773586120706\">narrative\u003c/a> than with the quality of the animation of the SparkShorts films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's not this sense of not, like, 'Oh my gosh, I have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/15/619253624/in-pixars-first-female-directed-short-a-dumpling-child-fills-an-empty-nest\">go out in front of \u003cem>Incredibles 2\u003c/em>\u003c/a>' and I'm bearing this huge burden of: 'This has to be the most amazing short film ever,'\" Collins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first three SparkShorts to be released—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo\">\u003cem>Purl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS5cgybKcI\">\u003cem>Kitbull\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-G7YpSFb4&t=22s\">\u003cem>Smash and Grab\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—are available to watch on YouTube. The next three films will be released on Disney+, the company's just-announced consumer streaming service, in the fall.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/A4-G7YpSFb4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/A4-G7YpSFb4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Two of the fall releases will be directed by people of color. Edwin Chang, a Korean-American, will direct\u003cem> Wind\u003c/em>, a magical realism story about a grandmother and grandson. And in Pixar's first animated short with Pinoy characters, Filipino-American Robert Rubio will direct \u003cem>Float\u003c/em>, a story about a father's instinct to protect his son—who has the ability to float in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Milsom, the last of the three women directors of this year's SparkShorts, will release \u003cem>Loop\u003c/em>, which tells the story of a non-verbal autistic girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said Pixar is trying to make two to four new SparkShorts per year, with the exception of the initial 2019 batch of six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hope is that if we keep going with these, that people will continue to get more opportunities,\" Collins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Changing The Boys Club\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The president of the non-profit organization Women in Animation, Marge Dean, has noticed that slowly, women are getting more opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So five years ago, I would say the animation industry was pretty much a boys' club,\" Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those opportunities really increased beginning in 2017. That's when the #MeToo movement took off after producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/555982871/harvey-weinstein\">Harvey Weinstein\u003c/a>, former Nickelodeon animator and \u003cem>The Loud House \u003c/em>creator Chris Savino, and Pixar's former chief creative officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565801354/pixars-john-lasseter-takes-leave-of-absence-after-harassment-allegations\">John Lasseter\u003c/a>—among others—were accused of sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean said the animation industry landscape has evolved since the arrival of #MeToo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That changed everything,\" she said. \"That's when everyone woke up and goes, 'No, we're serious about this.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's still a long way to go before women achieve equal representation. According to Women in Animation, \u003ca href=\"http://womeninanimation.org/5050-by-2025/\">60 percent of all animation and art-school students\u003c/a> are women, yet only 20 percent of creative jobs in the industry—producers, directors, writers, animators, and art and design jobs—are currently held by women. Women in Animation is aiming for parity by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the next step is getting women to get to the top,\" said Maureen Fan, who is an Asian-American woman and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.baobabstudios.com/about-us\">of Baobab Studios\u003c/a>. \"There's the grassroots bottom-up. But there's also top-down. Right, so, people tend to hire people like themselves. So if you end up having more diversity at the top, it will naturally also be bringing in more diverse perspectives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fan is pushing for more women and people of color in animation. The Baobab Studios animated short \u003cem>Crow: The Legend\u003c/em> is based on a Native American legend. Fan says she purposely cast the film largely with people of color, including John Legend, Oprah Winfrey and Constance Wu.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/AO4PrtAKu2E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/AO4PrtAKu2E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Fan is also active in Gold House, a group of Asian American executives, founders, and A-list celebrities in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York City and elsewhere who \"help each other move up the corporate and cultural ladder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among their efforts is #GoldOpen, \"a system to drive Asian films to no.1 at the box office opening weekend through buyouts, theatrical and social network partnerships and viral social media campaigns. The Asian community movement bought out theaters to boost the box office numbers in summer 2018 for the release of \u003cem>Crazy Rich Asians\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Searching\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Burning \u003c/em>and more,\" Fan wrote in an email to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2018, Fan created a sub-group within Gold House to discuss how to create representation in animation: \"whether it's representing diverse viewpoints, meaning animation about different types of people and cultures, and also getting more diverse viewpoints behind the camera as well,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is also actively working to measure the profits of diversity on the big screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have more diversity points or you make films about different cultures and races, it makes good money in the box offices,\" Fan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, \u003cem>Coco\u003c/em> became the sixth highest-grossing Pixar animated feature film with a global box-office intake of $807.1 million. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/564385036/mexico-music-and-family-take-center-stage-in-coco\">The film takes place in Mexico\u003c/a> during Día de los Muertos—or Day of the Dead—and tells the story of a young Mexican boy who embarks on a journey to discover his family's history and, in the process, uses music to bring the memory of the dead back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And while I would like to be idealistic and say we're doing the right thing, I do think it always does come down to business,\" Fan said. \"And we do have to prove the financial worth of doing so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ted Robbins edited this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Pixar%27s+SparkShorts+Set+Out+To+Ignite+More+Diversity+in+Animation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/111128/pixars-sparkshorts-ignite-more-diversity-in-animation","authors":["byline_pop_111128"],"categories":["pop_1537","pop_51","pop_1155"],"tags":["pop_3341","pop_3574","pop_3447","pop_3448"],"featImg":"pop_111131","label":"pop"},"pop_110884":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_110884","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"110884","score":null,"sort":[1554928443000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-sexting-system-slutbot-is-a-real-life-black-mirror-episode-waiting-to-happen","title":"New Sexting System 'Slutbot' Is A Real-Life 'Black Mirror' Episode Waiting To Happen","publishDate":1554928443,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Slutbot is being hailed as a worthwhile invention. \"Sexting can be a fun, relatively stress-free way to explore your sexuality,\" \u003ca href=\"https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/slutbot-sexting-help/\">reports \u003cem>Hello Giggles\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"But if you’ve never done it before, the idea of sexting might stress you TF out. If that sounds familiar, then Slutbot might be for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slutbot is a system created by sex-ed teachers and erotic fiction writers that will engage you in sexual conversation via text. The goal, apparently, is to teach proper sexting etiquette. The bot asks for consent before each session, offers users a safeword (it's \"pineapple\" btw) and doesn't respond positively to unsolicited photos of body parts or—confusingly for an app with the word \"slut\" in the title—words like \"whore\" and \"bitch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new service is coming to us from the makers of San Francisco's very own relationship and sex advice app, \u003ca href=\"https://www.juiceboxit.com/\">Juicebox\u003c/a>, apparently in response to a multitude of queries about how to sext properly. It's a nice idea in theory, but, put it under any scrutiny at all and it starts feeling an awful lot like a\u003cem> Black Mirror\u003c/em> version of \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>. (The technical advancements start out with the best of intentions in both of those too, remember?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QRvTv_tpw0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that Slutbot might bring humans closer together is pretty ludicrous. Research into relationships in the age of tech makes it abundantly clear that—and this sounds like a '90s joke about nerds—the more technology we use to connect, the less sex we have. It's why the demographic that sexts the most—18 to 24-year-olds—are now \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1111631250081632256\">having less sex\u003c/a> than people in their 50s. It's why men under 30 are now \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2019/04/03/men-are-having-a-lot-less-sex-and-dating-apps-are-to-blame/\">30 percent more likely\u003c/a> to go a year without sex than they were a decade ago (though finances and employment status also play a role).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/\">According to Jean M. Twenge\u003c/a>, author of \u003cem>iGen\u003c/em>, people in their early-20s are now two and a half times more likely to be celibate than Gen Xers were at the same age. In 2015, only 56 percent of high school seniors went on actual dates—that's almost 30 percent less than Baby Boomers and Generation X did. Fifteen-year-olds now have 40% less sex than teens in 1991 did, and teens overall lose their virginity about a year later than previous generations. These trends began in earnest in 2012, the same year smartphone ownership in America passed the 50 percent mark. For people in their 20s, the sharpest drop in sexual activity happened between 2014 and 2016. The fact that 2014 was the year Tinder blew up, processing over \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinder_(app)\">a billion swipes a day\u003c/a> by October, is quite the coincidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability to communicate online has disincentivized humans in many ways. Leaving the house and meeting people in person has become less necessary across the board. In the '90s, if you were feeling frisky, you asked someone out on a date or immediately went out to a public place to interact. With access to porn at an all-time high and the ability to instantly indulge in sexual exchanges with people via text, it's no wonder humans are having less actual sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juicebox's CEO Brianna Rade has herself noted that the Slutbot is \"\u003ca href=\"https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/09/juicebox-launches-slutbot-chatbot-to-teach-people-proper-sexting/\">almost like interactive erotica\u003c/a>.” As such, the SMS service has the potential to go from training tool to final destination. Why risk the potential awkwardness of sexting another human when a willing bot is available around the clock? While Slutbot might ultimately save a lot of eyes from unsolicited dick pics, the potential for this to turn into yet another barrier between humans is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 28-year-old recently interviewed by \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2019/04/03/men-are-having-a-lot-less-sex-and-dating-apps-are-to-blame/\">\u003cem>The New York Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> described his own predicament: \"Ten years ago, people would always get back to me online. Now, it’s only half the time or less,\" he said. \"I was so dependent on [online dating in] my early 20s, [and that’s when] people learn a lot of skills. I feel like I have to relearn how to find dates and have sex with people that I like without using apps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the article, the man had deleted all his dating apps and simply started going out more. It's probably a smart move. After all, there's no better way to learn about interacting with other humans than interacting with humans. Using bots to teach us about human intimacy is both a slippery slope and a contradiction in terms. If we are ever to get out of what the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> has called \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-americans-not-having-sex-has-reached-record-high/\">\"the great American sex drought,\"\u003c/a> we need to be using less tech, not more.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While Slutbot might ultimately save a lot of eyes from unsolicited dick pics, the potential for this to turn into yet another barrier between humans is real.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1554928443,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":810},"headData":{"title":"New Sexting System 'Slutbot' Is A Real-Life 'Black Mirror' Episode Waiting To Happen | KQED","description":"While Slutbot might ultimately save a lot of eyes from unsolicited dick pics, the potential for this to turn into yet another barrier between humans is real.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"110884 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=110884","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/04/10/new-sexting-system-slutbot-is-a-real-life-black-mirror-episode-waiting-to-happen/","disqusTitle":"New Sexting System 'Slutbot' Is A Real-Life 'Black Mirror' Episode Waiting To Happen","path":"/pop/110884/new-sexting-system-slutbot-is-a-real-life-black-mirror-episode-waiting-to-happen","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Slutbot is being hailed as a worthwhile invention. \"Sexting can be a fun, relatively stress-free way to explore your sexuality,\" \u003ca href=\"https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/slutbot-sexting-help/\">reports \u003cem>Hello Giggles\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"But if you’ve never done it before, the idea of sexting might stress you TF out. If that sounds familiar, then Slutbot might be for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slutbot is a system created by sex-ed teachers and erotic fiction writers that will engage you in sexual conversation via text. The goal, apparently, is to teach proper sexting etiquette. The bot asks for consent before each session, offers users a safeword (it's \"pineapple\" btw) and doesn't respond positively to unsolicited photos of body parts or—confusingly for an app with the word \"slut\" in the title—words like \"whore\" and \"bitch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new service is coming to us from the makers of San Francisco's very own relationship and sex advice app, \u003ca href=\"https://www.juiceboxit.com/\">Juicebox\u003c/a>, apparently in response to a multitude of queries about how to sext properly. It's a nice idea in theory, but, put it under any scrutiny at all and it starts feeling an awful lot like a\u003cem> Black Mirror\u003c/em> version of \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>. (The technical advancements start out with the best of intentions in both of those too, remember?)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6QRvTv_tpw0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6QRvTv_tpw0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The idea that Slutbot might bring humans closer together is pretty ludicrous. Research into relationships in the age of tech makes it abundantly clear that—and this sounds like a '90s joke about nerds—the more technology we use to connect, the less sex we have. It's why the demographic that sexts the most—18 to 24-year-olds—are now \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1111631250081632256\">having less sex\u003c/a> than people in their 50s. It's why men under 30 are now \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2019/04/03/men-are-having-a-lot-less-sex-and-dating-apps-are-to-blame/\">30 percent more likely\u003c/a> to go a year without sex than they were a decade ago (though finances and employment status also play a role).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/\">According to Jean M. Twenge\u003c/a>, author of \u003cem>iGen\u003c/em>, people in their early-20s are now two and a half times more likely to be celibate than Gen Xers were at the same age. In 2015, only 56 percent of high school seniors went on actual dates—that's almost 30 percent less than Baby Boomers and Generation X did. Fifteen-year-olds now have 40% less sex than teens in 1991 did, and teens overall lose their virginity about a year later than previous generations. These trends began in earnest in 2012, the same year smartphone ownership in America passed the 50 percent mark. For people in their 20s, the sharpest drop in sexual activity happened between 2014 and 2016. The fact that 2014 was the year Tinder blew up, processing over \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinder_(app)\">a billion swipes a day\u003c/a> by October, is quite the coincidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability to communicate online has disincentivized humans in many ways. Leaving the house and meeting people in person has become less necessary across the board. In the '90s, if you were feeling frisky, you asked someone out on a date or immediately went out to a public place to interact. With access to porn at an all-time high and the ability to instantly indulge in sexual exchanges with people via text, it's no wonder humans are having less actual sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juicebox's CEO Brianna Rade has herself noted that the Slutbot is \"\u003ca href=\"https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/09/juicebox-launches-slutbot-chatbot-to-teach-people-proper-sexting/\">almost like interactive erotica\u003c/a>.” As such, the SMS service has the potential to go from training tool to final destination. Why risk the potential awkwardness of sexting another human when a willing bot is available around the clock? While Slutbot might ultimately save a lot of eyes from unsolicited dick pics, the potential for this to turn into yet another barrier between humans is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 28-year-old recently interviewed by \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2019/04/03/men-are-having-a-lot-less-sex-and-dating-apps-are-to-blame/\">\u003cem>The New York Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> described his own predicament: \"Ten years ago, people would always get back to me online. Now, it’s only half the time or less,\" he said. \"I was so dependent on [online dating in] my early 20s, [and that’s when] people learn a lot of skills. I feel like I have to relearn how to find dates and have sex with people that I like without using apps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the article, the man had deleted all his dating apps and simply started going out more. It's probably a smart move. After all, there's no better way to learn about interacting with other humans than interacting with humans. Using bots to teach us about human intimacy is both a slippery slope and a contradiction in terms. If we are ever to get out of what the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> has called \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-americans-not-having-sex-has-reached-record-high/\">\"the great American sex drought,\"\u003c/a> we need to be using less tech, not more.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/110884/new-sexting-system-slutbot-is-a-real-life-black-mirror-episode-waiting-to-happen","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_1155"],"tags":["pop_1068","pop_3341","pop_1328","pop_3555","pop_1154"],"featImg":"pop_110887","label":"pop"},"pop_110424":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_110424","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"110424","score":null,"sort":[1552947529000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"meet-q-the-electronic-assistant-thats-challenging-the-gender-binary","title":"Meet Q, The Electronic Assistant That's Challenging The Gender Binary","publishDate":1552947529,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>For the last couple of years, the smart devices we're increasingly leaving in charge of our lives have given us pause on a number of occasions. Like when Alexa started \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/03/08/amazons-alexa-is-laughing-at-users.cnnmoney\">laughing at people\u003c/a> for no reason in the middle of the night, or when Siri just flat out \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDT82gwQA5I\">ignored us\u003c/a> for days, or when the world figured out that Google Home can both fart \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdwTCf0l0KI\">swear like a sailor\u003c/a>. Then there's Cortana, who seems hell-bent on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqfO5i6u4c\">scuppering gaming sessions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we ponder a little bit less is why all of our electronic assistants have feminine voices by default. There are a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/why-do-so-many-digital-assistants-have-feminine-names/475884/\">number of theories\u003c/a> around this; research suggests people just expect all administrative assistants to be female, and there's also the suggestion that feminine voices will make this major tech influx seem less threatening. Either way, when the voices we bark demands at all day sound like women, it can't help but double down on traditional gender stereotypes that have no place in technology this futuristic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Q, the first gender-neutral electronic assistant, and a breath of fresh air in a world which is increasingly less and less interested in a strict gender binary. Q is \"neither male nor female,\" and has been \"created for a future where we are no longer defined by gender.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=52&v=lvv6zYOQqm0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q was researched meticulously and designed around a mid-range frequency that simultaneously sounds like both genders and no gender at all. This shift from female-sounding assistants is an important step away from reinforcing old ideas around female servitude, while also pushing for a more non-binary future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&v=jasEIteA3Ag\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q has the potential to surreptitiously change how we see gender and identity, as we move deeper into the 21st century. As the linguists, sound designers and technologists that created Q say themselves: \"It's a voice of progression, a voice of hope, a voice that moves us forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The non-binary device assistant was \"created for a future where we are no longer defined by gender.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552947529,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":346},"headData":{"title":"Meet Q, The Electronic Assistant That's Challenging The Gender Binary | KQED","description":"The non-binary device assistant was "created for a future where we are no longer defined by gender."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"110424 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=110424","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/03/18/meet-q-the-electronic-assistant-thats-challenging-the-gender-binary/","disqusTitle":"Meet Q, The Electronic Assistant That's Challenging The Gender Binary","path":"/pop/110424/meet-q-the-electronic-assistant-thats-challenging-the-gender-binary","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the last couple of years, the smart devices we're increasingly leaving in charge of our lives have given us pause on a number of occasions. Like when Alexa started \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/03/08/amazons-alexa-is-laughing-at-users.cnnmoney\">laughing at people\u003c/a> for no reason in the middle of the night, or when Siri just flat out \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDT82gwQA5I\">ignored us\u003c/a> for days, or when the world figured out that Google Home can both fart \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdwTCf0l0KI\">swear like a sailor\u003c/a>. Then there's Cortana, who seems hell-bent on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqfO5i6u4c\">scuppering gaming sessions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we ponder a little bit less is why all of our electronic assistants have feminine voices by default. There are a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/why-do-so-many-digital-assistants-have-feminine-names/475884/\">number of theories\u003c/a> around this; research suggests people just expect all administrative assistants to be female, and there's also the suggestion that feminine voices will make this major tech influx seem less threatening. Either way, when the voices we bark demands at all day sound like women, it can't help but double down on traditional gender stereotypes that have no place in technology this futuristic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Q, the first gender-neutral electronic assistant, and a breath of fresh air in a world which is increasingly less and less interested in a strict gender binary. Q is \"neither male nor female,\" and has been \"created for a future where we are no longer defined by gender.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lvv6zYOQqm0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lvv6zYOQqm0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Q was researched meticulously and designed around a mid-range frequency that simultaneously sounds like both genders and no gender at all. This shift from female-sounding assistants is an important step away from reinforcing old ideas around female servitude, while also pushing for a more non-binary future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/jasEIteA3Ag'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jasEIteA3Ag'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q has the potential to surreptitiously change how we see gender and identity, as we move deeper into the 21st century. As the linguists, sound designers and technologists that created Q say themselves: \"It's a voice of progression, a voice of hope, a voice that moves us forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/110424/meet-q-the-electronic-assistant-thats-challenging-the-gender-binary","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_1536","pop_1155","pop_5"],"tags":["pop_3194","pop_3426","pop_3506","pop_3507","pop_3505"],"featImg":"pop_110430","label":"pop"},"pop_110365":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_110365","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"110365","score":null,"sort":[1552504821000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"who-charges-those-annoying-electric-scooters-meet-the-juicers","title":"Who Charges Those Annoying Electric Scooters? Meet the \"Juicers\"","publishDate":1552504821,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Some people love electric scooters. Some people hate them. And some people charge them—for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day, Joel Kirzner is a consultant in Arlington, Va. But when he wraps up work in the office, he pulls out his phone and checks multiple scooter apps to see what's available nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there are scooters low on battery, they'll show up in the map on his phone. And if he can find the scooter in real life (and beat any rival chargers to the punch), he'll earn a few bucks for each one he charges at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like \u003cem>Pokémon Go\u003c/em> and you make money,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent evening, he sees two scooters up for grabs just around the corner from his office. He hops in his Subaru Impreza and starts collecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric scooters \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668189361/why-ford-is-getting-into-the-scooter-business\">are hot\u003c/a> right now. Lime and Bird, the two biggest companies, are valued at some\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/lime-bird-said-to-raise-millions-at-lower-valuations-than-hoped\"> $2 billion each\u003c/a>. You can rent scooters by the minute from one or both companies in more than 100 cities across the country—from Abilene, Texas, to Tacoma, Wash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both companies rely on independent contractors such as Kirzner to keep the wheels rolling, by taking the scooters to their homes and charging them in ordinary outlets. In the process, chargers fulfill another key need: They help move scooters from out-of-the-way locations to hot spots where they'll find more riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lime calls the chargers \"juicers.\" Bird has its own puns: The chargers \"capture\" Birds, and then release them to \"nests\"—specific locations chosen by the company—in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is largely nocturnal work: Some scooters don't become available for charging until after 9 p.m., and they're supposed to be back on the roads early the next morning so they're available for commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting after sunset on a recent chilly night, Kirzner collects 12 scooters in quick succession near his office building before heading home to charge them. He's collecting Birds tonight—there were more available than Limes—and earning $4 or $5 for each, including a bonus for collecting multiple scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bounty offered per scooter varies based on location, level of charge and how long a scooter has been standing idle (a sign it might be in a less-desirable location). And in general, the bounties have gone down over time. For instance, Bird used to pay up to $20 for scooters that had been waiting the longest. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/12/07/bird-electric-scooter-chargers-hoarders-cutthroat-race-collect-make-money/2090584002/\">unscrupulous chargers\u003c/a> would take scooters off the street and hoard them while their value increased; now, Kirzner says, $20 for a charge is all but unheard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declining rates have reduced some of the previously fierce competition to snag scooters. Many people just aren't willing to hit the road for smaller payouts—especially on a cold, windy March night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Castillo, who used to collect Lime scooters in Washington, D.C., isn't charging anymore. He used to go out with his mom, who's retired—\"it was a way for us to spend time together,\" he says—and they'd fill up his pickup with scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I first started, it was $6 a scooter,\" Castillo says. \"They lowered the price recently to $4, and I did it once or twice after that and it wasn't as exciting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirzner says it's still worth it for him to charge, especially since he rarely goes out of his way, collecting and redistributing right near his office and his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like picking money off the street,\" he says, when he finishes one pickup and spots another scooter, worth $5 per charge, available just across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"Joel Kirzner charges Bird scooters on his patio in Arlington, Va., on March 4. He routinely picks up scooters after his workday is finished and charges them overnight for the companies Bird and Lime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-768x576.jpe 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-1020x764.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-1200x899.jpe 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-1920x1439.jpe 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9.jpe 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Kirzner charges Bird scooters on his patio in Arlington, Va., on March 4. He routinely picks up scooters after his workday is finished and charges them overnight for the companies Bird and Lime. \u003ccite>(Camila Domonoske/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, it's not \u003cem>that \u003c/em>easy. Once they're all stacked in his hatchback—he has a very precise system for squeezing in up to a dozen Birds—he takes the scooters home and plugs them in on his patio. His chargers are neatly organized, mounted to pieces of plywood with color-coordinated zip ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They'll charge for hours, and he pays for the electricity. (The effect on his electric bill is negligible, Kirzner says.) The next morning, he'll wake up early to get the scooters out on the road, deposited in locations preselected by Bird, before he heads to his day job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirzner says that since he started charging in September, he's earned more than $9,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also cautions that this job is not very reliable—not like, say, driving for Uber or Lyft, or other options in the gig economy. Some nights he might come up empty-handed. And in some cities, Lime or Bird have folded up shop and disappeared overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also not clear if the companies will continue to rely on contractors. Other companies, such as Lyft, use employees to charge their electric scooters. Kirzner wonders how it can possibly be cost-effective to pay him $50 or $60 for a couple hours of work that a full-time employee might do for $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More speculatively, some analysts suspect robots might be coming for these jobs—robot scooters, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What people are talking about already is having these things be autonomous,\" says Horace Dediu, the influential analyst who coined the term \"micromobility\" to describe small electric vehicles like scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-wheeled or self-balancing scooter could \"crawl around on the sidewalk at, like, 3 miles an hour,\" he says. \"Maybe during the night they'll reposition themselves to a charging station. Now, either you have a person there who plugs them in, or they could hover above what is essentially an inductive spot ... so they could self-charge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you'll have these these sort of armies of scooters rolling around the city at night roaming to try to find a charging station,\" Dediu theorizes. \"I think that's not crazy as it sounds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, payouts to chargers such as Kirzner represent a substantial cost for the scooter companies—which are still burning through money as they expand, and haven't yet managed to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, chargers play an integral role in the scooter economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the chilly darkness, Kirzner carries his night's haul from his car and neatly lines them up. He says he makes decent pay at his 9-to-5 job. But a side hustle helps, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have expensive rent, expensive car payments, cable bills,\" he says. \"You talk about the disappearing middle class—I feel like I'm in that zone where I can live fine, comfortably. But if you want to have a little more financial stability, this definitely helps.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he'd rather do this than drive for Uber or Lyft, he says. It puts fewer miles on his car—and there are no drunk people to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Birds don't talk back to me,\" he says. \"They tweet every so often—you know, beeping—but other than that, they're pretty nice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Who+Charges+All+Those+Electric+Scooters%3F+Follow+A+Nocturnal+%27Juicer%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bird and Lime pay a few dollars a pop to an army of people who prowl the streets for the scooters and take them home to charge.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552504945,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1238},"headData":{"title":"Who Charges Those Annoying Electric Scooters? 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Meet the \"Juicers\"","nprImageCredit":"Christophe Archambault","nprByline":"Camila Domonoske","nprImageAgency":"AFP/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"701130673","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=701130673&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/13/701130673/who-charges-all-those-electric-scooters-follow-a-nocturnal-juicer?ft=nprml&f=701130673","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:19:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 13 Mar 2019 05:01:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:44:35 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/03/20190313_me_who_charges_all_those_electric_scooters_follow_a_nocturnal_juicer.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=256&p=3&story=701130673&ft=nprml&f=701130673","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1702908804-b59ac8.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=256&p=3&story=701130673&ft=nprml&f=701130673","audioTrackLength":256,"path":"/pop/110365/who-charges-those-annoying-electric-scooters-meet-the-juicers","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/03/20190313_me_who_charges_all_those_electric_scooters_follow_a_nocturnal_juicer.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=256&p=3&story=701130673&ft=nprml&f=701130673","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Some people love electric scooters. Some people hate them. And some people charge them—for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day, Joel Kirzner is a consultant in Arlington, Va. But when he wraps up work in the office, he pulls out his phone and checks multiple scooter apps to see what's available nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there are scooters low on battery, they'll show up in the map on his phone. And if he can find the scooter in real life (and beat any rival chargers to the punch), he'll earn a few bucks for each one he charges at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like \u003cem>Pokémon Go\u003c/em> and you make money,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent evening, he sees two scooters up for grabs just around the corner from his office. He hops in his Subaru Impreza and starts collecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric scooters \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668189361/why-ford-is-getting-into-the-scooter-business\">are hot\u003c/a> right now. Lime and Bird, the two biggest companies, are valued at some\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/lime-bird-said-to-raise-millions-at-lower-valuations-than-hoped\"> $2 billion each\u003c/a>. You can rent scooters by the minute from one or both companies in more than 100 cities across the country—from Abilene, Texas, to Tacoma, Wash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both companies rely on independent contractors such as Kirzner to keep the wheels rolling, by taking the scooters to their homes and charging them in ordinary outlets. In the process, chargers fulfill another key need: They help move scooters from out-of-the-way locations to hot spots where they'll find more riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lime calls the chargers \"juicers.\" Bird has its own puns: The chargers \"capture\" Birds, and then release them to \"nests\"—specific locations chosen by the company—in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is largely nocturnal work: Some scooters don't become available for charging until after 9 p.m., and they're supposed to be back on the roads early the next morning so they're available for commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting after sunset on a recent chilly night, Kirzner collects 12 scooters in quick succession near his office building before heading home to charge them. He's collecting Birds tonight—there were more available than Limes—and earning $4 or $5 for each, including a bonus for collecting multiple scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bounty offered per scooter varies based on location, level of charge and how long a scooter has been standing idle (a sign it might be in a less-desirable location). And in general, the bounties have gone down over time. For instance, Bird used to pay up to $20 for scooters that had been waiting the longest. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/12/07/bird-electric-scooter-chargers-hoarders-cutthroat-race-collect-make-money/2090584002/\">unscrupulous chargers\u003c/a> would take scooters off the street and hoard them while their value increased; now, Kirzner says, $20 for a charge is all but unheard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declining rates have reduced some of the previously fierce competition to snag scooters. Many people just aren't willing to hit the road for smaller payouts—especially on a cold, windy March night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Castillo, who used to collect Lime scooters in Washington, D.C., isn't charging anymore. He used to go out with his mom, who's retired—\"it was a way for us to spend time together,\" he says—and they'd fill up his pickup with scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I first started, it was $6 a scooter,\" Castillo says. \"They lowered the price recently to $4, and I did it once or twice after that and it wasn't as exciting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirzner says it's still worth it for him to charge, especially since he rarely goes out of his way, collecting and redistributing right near his office and his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like picking money off the street,\" he says, when he finishes one pickup and spots another scooter, worth $5 per charge, available just across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"Joel Kirzner charges Bird scooters on his patio in Arlington, Va., on March 4. He routinely picks up scooters after his workday is finished and charges them overnight for the companies Bird and Lime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-768x576.jpe 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-1020x764.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-1200x899.jpe 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9-1920x1439.jpe 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/img_7492-2_custom-9afeae50eafa5cf9591a1132f9e1492fe7ebd4b9.jpe 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Kirzner charges Bird scooters on his patio in Arlington, Va., on March 4. He routinely picks up scooters after his workday is finished and charges them overnight for the companies Bird and Lime. \u003ccite>(Camila Domonoske/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, it's not \u003cem>that \u003c/em>easy. Once they're all stacked in his hatchback—he has a very precise system for squeezing in up to a dozen Birds—he takes the scooters home and plugs them in on his patio. His chargers are neatly organized, mounted to pieces of plywood with color-coordinated zip ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They'll charge for hours, and he pays for the electricity. (The effect on his electric bill is negligible, Kirzner says.) The next morning, he'll wake up early to get the scooters out on the road, deposited in locations preselected by Bird, before he heads to his day job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirzner says that since he started charging in September, he's earned more than $9,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also cautions that this job is not very reliable—not like, say, driving for Uber or Lyft, or other options in the gig economy. Some nights he might come up empty-handed. And in some cities, Lime or Bird have folded up shop and disappeared overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also not clear if the companies will continue to rely on contractors. Other companies, such as Lyft, use employees to charge their electric scooters. Kirzner wonders how it can possibly be cost-effective to pay him $50 or $60 for a couple hours of work that a full-time employee might do for $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More speculatively, some analysts suspect robots might be coming for these jobs—robot scooters, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What people are talking about already is having these things be autonomous,\" says Horace Dediu, the influential analyst who coined the term \"micromobility\" to describe small electric vehicles like scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-wheeled or self-balancing scooter could \"crawl around on the sidewalk at, like, 3 miles an hour,\" he says. \"Maybe during the night they'll reposition themselves to a charging station. Now, either you have a person there who plugs them in, or they could hover above what is essentially an inductive spot ... so they could self-charge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you'll have these these sort of armies of scooters rolling around the city at night roaming to try to find a charging station,\" Dediu theorizes. \"I think that's not crazy as it sounds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, payouts to chargers such as Kirzner represent a substantial cost for the scooter companies—which are still burning through money as they expand, and haven't yet managed to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, chargers play an integral role in the scooter economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the chilly darkness, Kirzner carries his night's haul from his car and neatly lines them up. He says he makes decent pay at his 9-to-5 job. But a side hustle helps, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have expensive rent, expensive car payments, cable bills,\" he says. \"You talk about the disappearing middle class—I feel like I'm in that zone where I can live fine, comfortably. But if you want to have a little more financial stability, this definitely helps.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he'd rather do this than drive for Uber or Lyft, he says. It puts fewer miles on his car—and there are no drunk people to deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Birds don't talk back to me,\" he says. \"They tweet every so often—you know, beeping—but other than that, they're pretty nice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Who+Charges+All+Those+Electric+Scooters%3F+Follow+A+Nocturnal+%27Juicer%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/110365/who-charges-those-annoying-electric-scooters-meet-the-juicers","authors":["byline_pop_110365"],"categories":["pop_1536","pop_1155"],"tags":["pop_3426","pop_3495"],"featImg":"pop_110369","label":"pop"},"pop_109726":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_109726","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"109726","score":null,"sort":[1551299042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"venmos-public-payments-feed-is-getting-users-into-personal-trouble","title":"Venmo's Public Payments Feed is Getting Users Into Personal Trouble","publishDate":1551299042,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>When copywriter Kelli Johnson moved to Los Angeles, she didn't tell her parents that she'd be living with her boyfriend. Johnson, 27, grew up in Bakersfield, a couple of hours' drive north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very conservative, very religious—my parents as well,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, she pays the rent, and her boyfriend chips in his half on Venmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And when he did it, he put it in the memo line,\" Johnson says. \"The month plus the little house emoji, and that's how my mom saw.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom uses Venmo too. Johnson was busted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venmo has been around for a decade. And with millions of transactions—most of them public—the app's social nature is changing personal relationships, sometimes in unexpected ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Crone, a payments expert and founder of Crone Consulting, laughs when he hears Johnson's story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That reinforces our findings,\" he says. \"The No. 1 use case is paying rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crone estimates that about 39 million people use Venmo, which was launched in 2009 and later was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/26/226496622/ebay-to-acquire-payment-processor-braintree-for-800-million\">acquired by PayPal\u003c/a>. The company did not confirm the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venmo is used to pay or request money from other people who use the app. It's usually linked to a bank account, although users can also connect a credit card for a fee. Every transaction has a memo line, and the app suggests emoji instead of words for things like pizza, wine and rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos and emoji are public by default. Venmo offers to sync users' phone and Facebook contacts too. So you can see how your friends—and total strangers—spend money and what they're asking others to pay for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That visibility can be a perk, Crone says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want to pay it socially so everybody knows that you're not a deadbeat and you've met your obligation,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Schulman, the CEO of PayPal, says Venmo is the app for a generation that grew up on social media. And he says the public feed is the essence of the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really a social experience,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/digital-payments-could-grow-into-a-100-trillion-market-paypal-ceo.html\">Schulman said on CNBC\u003c/a>. \"You do a payment; you tag it; you put an emoji next to it. You share it with your friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some $19 billion changed hands over the app in the final quarter of last year, Venmo reported. That was up 80 percent from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all consumers know they're broadcasting their payments. Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/05/ftc-gives-final-approval-settlement-paypal-related-allegations\">Federal Trade Commission \u003c/a>demanded that Venmo make it clear to customers that these transactions are public. It also demanded that the company make it easier for customers to tighten their privacy settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venmo says it never posts the amount of the transactions, and customers can change their settings to private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private or not, the app has made it easy to give cash instantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman in Baltimore says she paid a $350 grocery bill for a friend who forgot her wallet but who used Venmo to send the money owed immediately. A man in San Francisco said he uses the app to send birthday money to his friends—for a round of drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also given employers an extra set of eyes. In Los Angeles, Patrick Matamoros sells high-end vintage T-shirts to celebrities. He discovered a worker had stolen a shirt and sold it—Matamoros says he saw the employee get paid for a shirt on Venmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I'm like, 'Hey, why did you sell this client of mine a vintage tee and I don't know about it?' \" Matamoros says. \"He denied it of course. It was beyond a smoking gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people have noticed that when it's so easy to split a bill, it becomes an expectation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm definitely less generous when I go out with my friends,\" says Matthew Masoud, an aerospace engineering student at the University of Cincinnati.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he went out to dinner with seven friends at a restaurant that wouldn't split the check. So he just paid for everybody—and then sent Venmo requests to each friend for the exact amount the person owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my friends ordered [a] pasta dish, I believe, and that one was like $13,\" Masoud says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Venmo, he says, he would have just taken care of the whole bill—and next time someone else would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Venmo has changed Masoud's habits, it doesn't seem to have changed Kelli Johnson's. Even after her mom discovered the live-in boyfriend, Johnson says, she didn't change her privacy settings. Why not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have nothing to hide now!\" Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps, she says, she'll think about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=As+Payments+Go+Social+With+Venmo%2C+They%27re+Changing+Personal+Relationships&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From undisclosed relationships to business thefts, Venmo keeps exposing secrets.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1551299313,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":802},"headData":{"title":"Venmo's Public Payments Feed is Getting Users Into Personal Trouble | KQED","description":"From undisclosed relationships to business thefts, Venmo keeps exposing secrets.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"109726 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=109726","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/02/27/venmos-public-payments-feed-is-getting-users-into-personal-trouble/","disqusTitle":"Venmo's Public Payments Feed is Getting Users Into Personal Trouble","nprImageCredit":"Amr Alfiky","nprByline":"Daniella Cheslow","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"697090168","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=697090168&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697090168/as-payments-go-social-with-venmo-theyre-changing-personal-relationships?ft=nprml&f=697090168","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:13:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:15:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:13:09 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2019/02/20190225_atc_as_payments_go_social_with_venmo_theyre_changing_personal_relationships.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=211&p=2&story=697090168&ft=nprml&f=697090168","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1697839214-b5b61a.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=211&p=2&story=697090168&ft=nprml&f=697090168","audioTrackLength":211,"path":"/pop/109726/venmos-public-payments-feed-is-getting-users-into-personal-trouble","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2019/02/20190225_atc_as_payments_go_social_with_venmo_theyre_changing_personal_relationships.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=211&p=2&story=697090168&ft=nprml&f=697090168","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When copywriter Kelli Johnson moved to Los Angeles, she didn't tell her parents that she'd be living with her boyfriend. Johnson, 27, grew up in Bakersfield, a couple of hours' drive north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very conservative, very religious—my parents as well,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, she pays the rent, and her boyfriend chips in his half on Venmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And when he did it, he put it in the memo line,\" Johnson says. \"The month plus the little house emoji, and that's how my mom saw.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom uses Venmo too. Johnson was busted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venmo has been around for a decade. And with millions of transactions—most of them public—the app's social nature is changing personal relationships, sometimes in unexpected ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Crone, a payments expert and founder of Crone Consulting, laughs when he hears Johnson's story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That reinforces our findings,\" he says. \"The No. 1 use case is paying rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crone estimates that about 39 million people use Venmo, which was launched in 2009 and later was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/26/226496622/ebay-to-acquire-payment-processor-braintree-for-800-million\">acquired by PayPal\u003c/a>. The company did not confirm the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venmo is used to pay or request money from other people who use the app. It's usually linked to a bank account, although users can also connect a credit card for a fee. Every transaction has a memo line, and the app suggests emoji instead of words for things like pizza, wine and rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos and emoji are public by default. Venmo offers to sync users' phone and Facebook contacts too. So you can see how your friends—and total strangers—spend money and what they're asking others to pay for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That visibility can be a perk, Crone says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want to pay it socially so everybody knows that you're not a deadbeat and you've met your obligation,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Schulman, the CEO of PayPal, says Venmo is the app for a generation that grew up on social media. And he says the public feed is the essence of the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really a social experience,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/digital-payments-could-grow-into-a-100-trillion-market-paypal-ceo.html\">Schulman said on CNBC\u003c/a>. \"You do a payment; you tag it; you put an emoji next to it. You share it with your friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some $19 billion changed hands over the app in the final quarter of last year, Venmo reported. That was up 80 percent from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all consumers know they're broadcasting their payments. Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/05/ftc-gives-final-approval-settlement-paypal-related-allegations\">Federal Trade Commission \u003c/a>demanded that Venmo make it clear to customers that these transactions are public. It also demanded that the company make it easier for customers to tighten their privacy settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venmo says it never posts the amount of the transactions, and customers can change their settings to private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private or not, the app has made it easy to give cash instantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman in Baltimore says she paid a $350 grocery bill for a friend who forgot her wallet but who used Venmo to send the money owed immediately. A man in San Francisco said he uses the app to send birthday money to his friends—for a round of drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also given employers an extra set of eyes. In Los Angeles, Patrick Matamoros sells high-end vintage T-shirts to celebrities. He discovered a worker had stolen a shirt and sold it—Matamoros says he saw the employee get paid for a shirt on Venmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I'm like, 'Hey, why did you sell this client of mine a vintage tee and I don't know about it?' \" Matamoros says. \"He denied it of course. It was beyond a smoking gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people have noticed that when it's so easy to split a bill, it becomes an expectation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm definitely less generous when I go out with my friends,\" says Matthew Masoud, an aerospace engineering student at the University of Cincinnati.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he went out to dinner with seven friends at a restaurant that wouldn't split the check. So he just paid for everybody—and then sent Venmo requests to each friend for the exact amount the person owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my friends ordered [a] pasta dish, I believe, and that one was like $13,\" Masoud says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Venmo, he says, he would have just taken care of the whole bill—and next time someone else would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Venmo has changed Masoud's habits, it doesn't seem to have changed Kelli Johnson's. Even after her mom discovered the live-in boyfriend, Johnson says, she didn't change her privacy settings. Why not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have nothing to hide now!\" Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps, she says, she'll think about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=As+Payments+Go+Social+With+Venmo%2C+They%27re+Changing+Personal+Relationships&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/109726/venmos-public-payments-feed-is-getting-users-into-personal-trouble","authors":["byline_pop_109726"],"categories":["pop_1155"],"tags":["pop_3426","pop_3483","pop_3482"],"featImg":"pop_109729","label":"pop"},"pop_109322":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_109322","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"109322","score":null,"sort":[1550794507000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"remembering-gerri-lawlor-sims-voice-actor-improv-star-and-homeless-advocate","title":"Remembering Gerri Lawlor, 'Sims' Voice Actor, Improv Star and Homeless Advocate","publishDate":1550794507,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>If you're a Millennial, chances are your first forays into adult living happened virtually, via the medium of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yLpvhNfoWA\">The Sims\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The life simulation gave kids the chance to do grown-up stuff (or take \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/gamers-confess-the-worst-things-theyve-done-on-the-sims-10144138.html\">a walk on the wild side\u003c/a>) without ever leaving the comfort and safety of their bedrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> voice actor and co-creator of the Simlish language, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492548/\">Gerri Lawlor\u003c/a>, died on January 28, 2019, the gaming world and \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> fans felt the loss keenly. Audio director, Robi Kauker, who has worked on \u003cem>The Sims\u003c/em> since its inception, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/in-memory-gerri-lawlor\">said\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Gerri was an amazing improvisational comedienne who brought her enormous personality to the mic. She was one of the funniest people with whom I ever had the opportunity to work. Gerri’s generosity and willingness to try anything is one of my most cherished memories from over twenty years of making \u003cem>The Sims\u003c/em>. It’s something I still lean on and learn from to this day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To give you some idea of what Kauker is talking about, here's Lawlor and fellow \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> actor Stephen Kearin trying not to crack up every 30 seconds while recording Simlish in 2001:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6JUKIAI-s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, Lawlor's life stretched far beyond the \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> universe. She came from the world of San Francisco improv and was a Company Player at \u003ca href=\"https://www.improv.org/\">BATS Improv,\u003c/a> where her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZP4GBqT9Q\">performances\u003c/a> and classes were marked by a playful, fearless approach to linguistic and physical comedy. Lawlor also acted in movies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193535/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Suckerfish\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359954/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11\">\u003cem>Security\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and provided guest vocals for avant-garde musical outfits like \u003ca href=\"https://www.residents.com/\">The Residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlAqlm-k49A&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0tIMoIpQ-1SoKvwM-v_1VoJ3bD20wxbTwB1AYnCfo5DGDJvBdq9crR8fw\">The Sexy Lilliputians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawlor's work was wildly unpredictable but always imbued with joy. There were her alter-egos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9sN9kBE6ms\">The Piffy\u003c/a> and Piffy Fou, her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Va4S93PRY&fbclid=IwAR1BFIt5klVJPXFaRkzaiEtrttF-wWp8X8QdIz2l_r_SaBtC6MvTaOXNJ-0\">graceful swing dances\u003c/a> and her appearances alongside drag queens and kings at \u003ca href=\"https://sfoasis.com/\">Oasis\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109324\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png\" alt=\"@Heklina / Facebook\" width=\"550\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-160x158.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-128x128.png 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">@Heklina / Facebook\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her spare time, Lawlor was a homeless advocate, joining forces with Margaret Cho in 2014 for the \u003cem>Be Robin\u003c/em> campaign, inspired by the passing of Robin Williams. Cho and Lawler put on impromptu musical and comedic \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2014/11/margaret-cho-kicks-off-homeless-outreach-tour-in-the-haight\">street performances\u003c/a> around San Francisco in order to raise money and collect supplies for the city's homeless population. Lawlor's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDWCZ5ukgNk\">graphic interpretive dances\u003c/a> of Cho's songs were always a hit with assembled crowds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkurt.weitzmann%2Fvideos%2F10158041011045410%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerri Lawlor left her mark both on the local community and on pop culture in a larger sense. If you need proof, here's a medley of some of the world's most famous musicians singing their biggest hits in Simlish, an appropriately surreal legacy for a woman whose creative sensibilities knew no bounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50bB__b-tQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/325250044864531/?active_tab=about\">Gerri Lawlor Celebration of Life\u003c/a> will be held on Monday, February 25, 6:30pm—10pm at \u003ca href=\"https://sfoasis.com/\">SF Oasis\u003c/a>. All donations collected at the door will go to the Lawlor family. There is also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/please-help-gerri039s-mom?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_dn_postdonate_r&fbclid=IwAR1RcBaO8d4U8UG9_6Bl2cuHLRALJizhRA6QiDF1EwoOmj5eq6mWTavX3pQ\">GoFundMe to help Gerri's mom,\u003c/a> Maggie.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Lawlor was a co-creator of the Simlish language, collaborated with Margaret Cho to help the homeless and thrilled audiences around the Bay with her improv comedy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552532523,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":499},"headData":{"title":"Remembering Gerri Lawlor, 'Sims' Voice Actor, Improv Star and Homeless Advocate | KQED","description":"Lawlor was a co-creator of the Simlish language, collaborated with Margaret Cho to help the homeless and thrilled audiences around the Bay with her improv comedy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"109322 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=109322","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/02/21/remembering-gerri-lawlor-sims-voice-actor-improv-star-and-homeless-advocate/","disqusTitle":"Remembering Gerri Lawlor, 'Sims' Voice Actor, Improv Star and Homeless Advocate","path":"/pop/109322/remembering-gerri-lawlor-sims-voice-actor-improv-star-and-homeless-advocate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you're a Millennial, chances are your first forays into adult living happened virtually, via the medium of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yLpvhNfoWA\">The Sims\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The life simulation gave kids the chance to do grown-up stuff (or take \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/gamers-confess-the-worst-things-theyve-done-on-the-sims-10144138.html\">a walk on the wild side\u003c/a>) without ever leaving the comfort and safety of their bedrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> voice actor and co-creator of the Simlish language, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492548/\">Gerri Lawlor\u003c/a>, died on January 28, 2019, the gaming world and \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> fans felt the loss keenly. Audio director, Robi Kauker, who has worked on \u003cem>The Sims\u003c/em> since its inception, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/in-memory-gerri-lawlor\">said\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Gerri was an amazing improvisational comedienne who brought her enormous personality to the mic. She was one of the funniest people with whom I ever had the opportunity to work. Gerri’s generosity and willingness to try anything is one of my most cherished memories from over twenty years of making \u003cem>The Sims\u003c/em>. It’s something I still lean on and learn from to this day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To give you some idea of what Kauker is talking about, here's Lawlor and fellow \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> actor Stephen Kearin trying not to crack up every 30 seconds while recording Simlish in 2001:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/RF6JUKIAI-s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RF6JUKIAI-s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, Lawlor's life stretched far beyond the \u003cem>Sims\u003c/em> universe. She came from the world of San Francisco improv and was a Company Player at \u003ca href=\"https://www.improv.org/\">BATS Improv,\u003c/a> where her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZP4GBqT9Q\">performances\u003c/a> and classes were marked by a playful, fearless approach to linguistic and physical comedy. Lawlor also acted in movies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193535/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Suckerfish\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359954/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11\">\u003cem>Security\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and provided guest vocals for avant-garde musical outfits like \u003ca href=\"https://www.residents.com/\">The Residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlAqlm-k49A&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0tIMoIpQ-1SoKvwM-v_1VoJ3bD20wxbTwB1AYnCfo5DGDJvBdq9crR8fw\">The Sexy Lilliputians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawlor's work was wildly unpredictable but always imbued with joy. There were her alter-egos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9sN9kBE6ms\">The Piffy\u003c/a> and Piffy Fou, her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Va4S93PRY&fbclid=IwAR1BFIt5klVJPXFaRkzaiEtrttF-wWp8X8QdIz2l_r_SaBtC6MvTaOXNJ-0\">graceful swing dances\u003c/a> and her appearances alongside drag queens and kings at \u003ca href=\"https://sfoasis.com/\">Oasis\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109324\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png\" alt=\"@Heklina / Facebook\" width=\"550\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-160x158.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.48.57-PM-128x128.png 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">@Heklina / Facebook\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her spare time, Lawlor was a homeless advocate, joining forces with Margaret Cho in 2014 for the \u003cem>Be Robin\u003c/em> campaign, inspired by the passing of Robin Williams. Cho and Lawler put on impromptu musical and comedic \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2014/11/margaret-cho-kicks-off-homeless-outreach-tour-in-the-haight\">street performances\u003c/a> around San Francisco in order to raise money and collect supplies for the city's homeless population. Lawlor's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDWCZ5ukgNk\">graphic interpretive dances\u003c/a> of Cho's songs were always a hit with assembled crowds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkurt.weitzmann%2Fvideos%2F10158041011045410%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerri Lawlor left her mark both on the local community and on pop culture in a larger sense. 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