The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 14, 2023)

The success of TikTok over the past half a decade is far from a mystery. It combines many of the contemporary internet’s favorite things: attention seeking, dumb arguments, and most importantly of all, easily accessible and digestible Content. Many a TikTok naysayer has been reluctantly won over by finally opening the app and immediately going …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (November 14, 2023)

Technology has made parenting so much more complex. Now, you can be more involved than ever, or you can leave your kid to hang out on TikTok unsupervised for all of their waking days. The choice is the parents to make, but there are cases of observing your kid too closely. I was in high …
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The Saddest Cringe Pics of the Week (November 8, 2023)

Cringe can be funny. There’s a whole genre of comedy shows that are all about making their audience as uncomfortable as possible. If you’re getting into cringe comedy, I think Nathan For You is a good entry-level show. It’s definitely cringe, but it doesn’t leave you as uncomfortable as other cringe comedy shows. It’s still …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 7, 2023)

Do you ever think about how in just a few short years, it’s become normal behavior — encouraged, even — to start recording with our front cameras and tell the world about the most intimate details of our life? While it didn’t come out of nowhere, it can occasionally seem that way. At least we …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (November 7, 2023)

If you look through my texts with my parents, they are anything but dramatic. My mom sends me updates about her day and pictures of their golden retrievers acting the fool. My texts with my dad are probably less interesting than reading the phone book, and I don’t even think phone books exist anymore! He …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (November 6, 2023)

I feel like one of the largest contributing factors to the proliferation of wacky Facebook-driven conspiracy theories is boredom. People, especially parents whose kids are at school, get bored if they’re hanging around the house all day, and their minds can start to wander in the most detrimental ways. If I had to clean a …
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The Cringiest Cringe Pics of the Week (November 1, 2023)

Did you know that there are two different kinds of cringe: compassionate cringe and contemptuous cringe? Compassionate cringe is about laughing with somebody about a relatable embarrassing experience. Compassionate cringe might occur when you tell your friends about the time you asked out your crush in middle school or when you fell off your scooter …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (October 31, 2023)

Happy Halloween, kids and grown-ups alike! Are you guys ready for a list of spooky parenting texts that will send you into the ghost dimension? Instead of saying «Trick or Treat,» you’ll be screaming, «It seems like these parents should be communicating with their kids in a healthier way!» Instead of hiding from goblins and …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 31, 2023)

My warmest greetings to the TikTok lovers, the TikTok haters, and the many people who just don’t know what the heck is going on anymore. At various different times, I find myself falling into all three of these categories. I’m a walking paradox when it comes to the clock app: I find the stuff that …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (October 30, 2023)

I have a theory about why mommy Facebook groups have become so popular in the past decade. I wholeheartedly believe that the inquisitive parents of the world all migrated from Yahoo Answers to these community groups to ask foolish and stupid questions without being shamed.  I find it quite sad that Yahoo Answers has completely …
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