manifesto

Having your fingers on the pop culture pulse at all times is exhilarating. It gives a sense of Godly power, knowing all the ins and outs, memes and facts before most people. You feel invincible and you love it. But one day, you missed something, you let go of the pressure in your fingers for a few seconds and you missed it. And then it all snowballs. You feel left out and it’s bewildering. You remove your fingers altogether and let the others take your place. Enter, obsessive snail. You found this little, obscure newsletter that welcomes everybody whose blood runs deep with pop culture and obsessions but can’t keep up with it every second of the day. We welcome the slow burn of an obsession, of a passionate fever about a tv show, film, book or musician. We are fans, we are stans. We have our fingers on the pulse, but don’t live for churning out click bait. We explore pop culture when we feel like it and delve into the things our hand twitches to write about. We want to normalise a slower burn of pop culture, a patience that we have all seemed to have forgotten. We love the mainstream, but we hate the mainstream. We are the mainstream, but we are also the edge. Makes sense, right? Movies, tv shows, books, music, art is what creates us. Apart from the people we grew up with, these are the things that raised us. Everything we do can be traced back to a piece of art that we once swore our lives to. How we think about love, how we talk about grief, how we express our anger. It’s a mix of family, friends and art. Then why not celebrate it properly? Why not embrace our old flamed passions and champion our new ones. There’s no shame in loving art, there’s no shame in being consumed by art. Be it a painting, a poem, an episode, a book, an album, it’s okay to be fully immersed in it. We encourage it over here. So take your time, find your pulse, but when you do allow yourself to be consumed by it, that’s when the fun begins.