The Babysitter’s Club (3,037 words)

https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/

Reading through The Babysitter's Club, I already related to the very beginning, specifically the discussion of "caretaker speech". I might have found it nice as a kid, but the use of condescending language like "doggy-woggy" is the most insufferable and patronizing garbage ever. It treats kids as if they're stupid and pacifies them from actually understanding the world around them.

This leads to a perfect segue on how Seamless ads manipulate people with "cool" and "hip" language that tries to be like a cool, hip teenage babysitter. In a way, the whole article does a great job segueing from subject and subject going to Yelp to Venmo to Uber to even Pokemon Go (remember when that was a thing?). It only builds and builds to her point about tech and how it babyfies its adult users, and it's a very smart way to write a story.