Neal Freiman

A recent ZipRecruiter survey also found that over a quarter of new hires are taking pay cuts when starting new roles.

So even if you can find a job, it's usually for less than what you were being paid at your previous job.

And then one more data point to throw into the mix, too, is that this survey was conducted during the final few months of 2025.

That is before the Iran war broke out, before oil and gas prices started soaring.

So maybe it's even worse out there than this survey actually painted the picture.

No, I'm logging on.

I need to know what Pashiona and Razzalina are getting up to and the Fruit Love Island.

This is not the only genre that's been fruitified either.

There's basically spinoffs of most popular culture at this point.

in the fruit realm.

The summer I turned pretty became the summer I turned fruity.

So I think the larger takeaway, other than just how weird and sexually charged a lot of these videos are, is that every piece of popular entertainment is now just gonna have kind of a weird mirror image in the fruit world, and that we can't create anything new anymore.

I do have to just stress how bad these videos are too.

I mean, the dialogue is sometimes nonsensical.

Their outfits are changing from frame to frame.

It is not a highly produced series at all.

It is slop in every, you know, aspect of the world.

I think you can have that adopted mentality, but one, people are tuning in because they want to tune out of everything else that's going on in the world.

They literally do want to turn their brains off.

And then two, the emotions that are being portrayed in these fruit videos are, you know...