Synthwave is a ubiquitous aesthetic on the right. It calls to mind the 80s—a dude in his aviators whipping down the road in his Ferrari Testarossa with a platinum blonde in the passenger seat. And the 80s was rad. But why don't we have our own aesthetic in the 2020s? Why haven't we had a new aesthetic in 25 years? The answer is STAGNATION, aka HAUNTOLOGY. The KDADS unpack this troubling (or is it based?) phenomenon.
Synthwave is a ubiquitous aesthetic on the right. It calls to mind the 80s—a dude in his aviators whipping down the road in his Ferrari Testarossa with a platinum blonde in the passenger seat. And the 80s was rad. But why don't we have our own aesthetic in the 2020s? Why haven't we had a new aesthetic in 25 years? The answer is STAGNATION, aka HAUNTOLOGY. The KDADS unpack this troubling (or is it based?) phenomenon.
"There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever." "Markets were cheering this economic recovery and return to strong economic growth, but the cheers will turn to tears if the inflation outbreak pushes businesses and consumers to the brink of recession," he added.
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