I dunno, this feels like it is overemphasizing. Consider the section on cities. It shows eight skylines viewed from across water. They all have tall buildings. Two have towers that have a spherical bulge element. Some buildings are glass facades and others are concrete. In one skyline the tallest building is wide and looks like some sort of hotel. In one skyline there is a large and wide white building that looks like an arena. These don't look identical to me except that they all contain tall buildings, which isn't as much a design choice as it is an economic choice about city centers. Then the text immediately pivots to cheap stick framing and small apartment buildings outside of city centers.
The discussion of interior decorating is called "interiors all look the same" but it immediately narrows focus onto just AirBnB listings (and for what its worth, I've stayed at far more AirBnBs that don't look like this than AirBnBs that do). The author describes trying to get design inspiration and getting stuck here, but there are entire magazines still in circulation about interior decor that very much cover a wide range of styles.
There is something to the article, but I feel that selecting ten similar looking things from each category is just not super compelling. There are ten books that sprung from a trend and use "fuck" in the title with a similar cover layout that were published over a period of like seven years. That's like, a normal trend that comes and goes. There are still a bazillion books that don't use this cringey title and have totally different cover design.
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I dunno, this feels like it is overemphasizing. Consider the section on cities. It shows eight skylines viewed from across water. They all have tall buildings. Two have towers that have a spherical bulge element. Some buildings are glass facades and others are concrete. In one skyline the tallest building is wide and looks like some sort of hotel. In one skyline there is a large and wide white building that looks like an arena. These don't look identical to me except that they all contain tall buildings, which isn't as much a design choice as it is an economic choice about city centers. Then the text immediately pivots to cheap stick framing and small apartment buildings outside of city centers.
The discussion of interior decorating is called "interiors all look the same" but it immediately narrows focus onto just AirBnB listings (and for what its worth, I've stayed at far more AirBnBs that don't look like this than AirBnBs that do). The author describes trying to get design inspiration and getting stuck here, but there are entire magazines still in circulation about interior decor that very much cover a wide range of styles.
There is something to the article, but I feel that selecting ten similar looking things from each category is just not super compelling. There are ten books that sprung from a trend and use "fuck" in the title with a similar cover layout that were published over a period of like seven years. That's like, a normal trend that comes and goes. There are still a bazillion books that don't use this cringey title and have totally different cover design.