‘I drank 101 Panera lemonades even though I have an anxiety disorder’: Dopey people reflect on the silliest things they did in 2023

It’s become a cliché by now (and not always a true one at that) to complain that the internet only shows us the highlight reel of other people’s lives. Never is this clearer than we are ushering in the new year, as social media abounds with happy photo dumps and self-congratulatory personal achievement threads.  These …
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‘Everything works itself out’: 32 wise men of 2023 reveal the most important things they learned this year

The tail end of the year is a time when many choose to self-reflect. When we’re made abruptly aware of the unrelenting passage of time, it’s easy to feel the need to take stock and/or go into existential crisis mode, and we’re usually better off taking the more productive route with this. It’s never enjoyable …
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Top 10 Twitter Moments of the Year (2023)

Twitter memes come and go so quickly. We laugh and hoot and holler at a «Twitter main character» for approximately 48 hours and proceed to forget they ever existed. Well, I don’t want to forget! The internet is already so poorly archived that it’s important to document phenomena outside of the platform where it first …
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‘Hot dogs are trendy’: Twitter users make hilarious predictions for 2024

If you can believe it, it’s already almost the end of the year. We’re counting down the days ‘til we count down the seconds. New Year’s happens to be one of my favorite holidays. I love the idea of a fresh start, a new page, a way to put off all the ways we say …
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A Fireworks Show of Memes to Showcase 2023’s Parade of Humor

Yep, it’s that time of the year again when you have to reflect on all the things you managed to accomplish for the past 12 months. Time to dust off that journal you only ever look at at the beginning of January and see which of your 2023 New Year resolutions will accompany you into …
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Top 10 Internet Celebrities of the Year (2023)

One of the wildest things about the internet we live on today is that almost anybody has the chance to make themselves famous. It’s not like you have ever really needed talent to be a celebrity in this century, but in the before times it involved a lot of gatekeeping and having to know a …
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‘Barbenheimer 2023’: Top 15 Memes of the Year (2023)

As the year comes to a close and we’re wrapping up gifts for our loved ones, let’s take a minute to remember the reason for the season: honoring the various memes that burst forward this year and made us exhale out of our noses while we scrolled. A meme is more than a news item. …
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28 Festive Work Memes to Spike the Punch Bowl at the Office Holiday Party

Ahh, it’s that time of year again where we wear glittery skirts, ugly sweaters, and reindeer antlers to work. None of us ever claimed to be this excited about the holidays, but once the eggnog starts flowing at the office holiday party, there’s no stopping the Christmas cheer. There’s something special in the air at …
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37 Taylor Swift Memes for Hardcore Swifties Who Went Bankrupt to See Her in Concert (Taylor’s Version)

Taylor Swift might be one of the most well-known artists on the planet. So why is it that her followers know every line of every one of her 200 songs, but the rest of the populous only remembers Teardrops on My Guitar and the screaming goat version of Trouble? Whichever category you fall into, whether …
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Funniest Mardi Gras Memes for NOLA Natives Who Are More Excited About King Cake Than the Parades

There aren’t many reasons for Americans to travel across the country to visit Louisiana. That means that there’s just one MAJORLY inconvenient holiday for the locals to endure in New Orleans– Mardi Gras. Celebrated for centuries, this is one of those holidays that lost a lot of it’s original meaning and cultural relevance and has …
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