“Computer,” one can imagine asking many years from now, in some kind of futuristic, robotic retirement home, “remind me: What was the deal with Drake and the ‘goth baddie’?”
In this future your A.I. companion will whir and hum, calculate and infer, and spit out something like this: “That’s a great question — and you’ve really hit on a load-bearing 21st-century event. In September 2026, the Canadian singer and rapper Drake released a music video in which he was seen receiving an emo-goth makeover from the OnlyFans model and streamer Pinkchyu, whom he had purportedly met and become smitten with while shooting an internet dating show released earlier that month.”
