Help the The Pudding's most-watched YouTube video get to 100K views! youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mi…

In this edition of “witnessing the decline of peak millennial culture”— an old location of the wing selling off their “woman owned book collection” on fb marketplace

I’m crying this dude made a diss track on the Detroit sign they just put up 😭😭

Highly recommend reading Alvin Chang daily diary for his recent interactive visual essay! bigcharts.substack.com/p/behind-the-s…

My latest piece for The Pudding: This is a teenager.

📱Interactive: pudding.cool/2024/03/teenag…

📺 Video: youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mi…

Follow Alvin Chang’s daily diary as he worked to produce his latest piece.

📔 Diary below.

💻 Piece here: pudding.cool/2024/03/teenag…

Imagine how unthinkable this chart would have been five years ago

This is a teenager. We’ll call him Alex.
Alvin Chang’s latest story follows Alex — along with hundreds of other teenagers — for the next 24 years until they reach their later 30s.

💻 Interactive version: pudding.cool/2024/03/teenag…

📽️ Video version:
youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mi…

i love this video format!!

new video from Alvin Chang!!!! youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mi…

'Total Eclipse of the Heart' by Bonnie Tyler, search interest, past seven days

Huge congrats to Charlie Roth! I still remember him using spring break to sift through hundreds of pages of printed tax records for this story. He cared deeply about this neighborhood and the residents.

Singers often add their own flair when performing the national anthem. So how many artists prioritize their voice shining through?

The Pudding explored this by analyzing 138 performances & quantifying their uniqueness using the Diva Score.

Read more: storybench.org/how-the-puddin…

Websim is HILARIOUS. Was demoing it to my gf and her friend in its early form and the fact that they both 'got it' was what convinced me to drop everything and focus on websim.

Simultaneously the most ridiculous idea I've ever worked on and the biggest. Here's that demo:

Data + BEYONCÉ using numbers from last year’s piece on back-to-back plays on country radio with Dr. Jada Watson.

pudding.cool/2023/05/countr…

Have never been more excited to let the cat out of the bag! Truly a dream come true and cannot wait for the summer The Pudding ☀️

Very excited to help these folks bring their ideas to life!

Drum roll please! 🥁

We're excited to announce the 3 members of our inaugural Cohort: Ahmed Bendaly, Vivian Li (vivian li), and Andrew Park (@androo_park). Let's show them some love!

i love this

Highly recommend Burn Rate by Andy Dunn. It covers his founding of Bonobos (my dream job and interviewed by him in 2009!), but it’s actually about bi-polar disorder and the hypomania that many startup founders feel.