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Are AirPods out? Why cool kids are wearing wired headphones

AirPods have become too widespread to be cool. So, perhaps inevitably, contrarian trendsetters are reviving some ancient technology: corded headphones. Fashionable young celebrities including Bella Hadid, Lily-Rose Depp and Zoë Kravitz have been photographed strutting around town with blatantly corded headphones.

TikTokers record videos that offer both practical reasons and more philosophical justifications for plugging back in.