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🌈 It’s been another quiet June.

For more than a decade, it’s been all rainbow logos and limited-edition Pride Month merch drops.

But after DEI rollbacks across the U.S. (and the 2023 Target incident), many brands have scaled back their financial and public support for LGBTQ+ initiatives inside and outside of their organizations.

In the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, Shannon breaks down the 2010s era of rainbow capitalism and pinkwashing, which both harmed and benefitted the community. Is it officially over?

Plus, which brands are still showing up for Pride Month when it’s politically complicated to do so?

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• The Daily Carnage Show Ep 2.9 Discussion: “If AI agents become the primary interface to knowledge, what happens to the humans and businesses that knowledge originally came from? What does it mean for the internet to quietly transition from an open ecosystem of destinations into a closed ecosystem of gate-kept answers? Are we speeding toward a future where people stop visiting the web directly? If that behavior ends, we ever be able to rebuild it?”

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