Remember when the news was delivered straight to your door? Your daily informational pamphlet came couriered to your front porch, carried dutifully in the bicycle basket of the boy who lives down the street. Dad read the newspaper at breakfast, Mom flipped through a magazine with coffee circles on the cover, and your siblings fought …
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The TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’
It was a cold winter morning in January of 2017. The gray overcast skies reflected the reality of social media as we knew it: Vine is gone. What was once a hub for six-second momentary ha-ha’s was now a graveyard for all of our favorite comedians. The last remnants of Vine would be stuck in …
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The tease of a potential TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’
It was a cold winter morning in January of 2017. The gray overcast skies reflected the reality of social media as we knew it: Vine is gone. What was once a hub for six-second momentary ha-ha’s was now a graveyard for all of our favorite comedians. The last remnants of Vine would be stuck in …
Seguir leyendo The tease of a potential TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’
40+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (January 27, 2024)
Twitter, for all its flaws (and there are MANY), has become an important cornerstone of our culture. It has transformed from a stupid little app where Ryan Lochte could tweet «Rocks, paper, siccor……..» into a platform where all kinds of important geopolitical information is disseminated. That said, I do wish we had apps that were …
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40+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (January 6, 2024)
Imagine for a moment: we take all the tweets from 2023, print them out, and bind them together in a hardcover book. What would that say about us as a culture? Probably that we love BTS, we had a lot of words about the Panera charged lemonade, and that a lot of us… are bots. …
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30 Times Lads on the Internet Were Delightfully Mad
Chaotically good trolls. There aren’t many of them out there… most trolls use their powers for evil, but some good ones manage to crop up every now and then, and they deserve to be celebrated. Like the court jesters of yore, they’re brave fools who will risk everything for a good joke. For this brand of devilish …
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40+ Funky Fresh Tweets That Are Both Relevant and Hilarious (December 23, 2023)
One of the things Twitter is best at is helping us make sense of a current event. Since the timeline is fast-moving and ever-changing, it gives everyone a chance to weigh in on a particular news item. Like this week, we’re still hearing EVERYONE’s takes/jokes about the Panera charged lemonade. And ya know what? I’m …
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50 Memes Featuring Bleakly Relatable Themes
When the entirety of existence just seems to become a boring series of tedious tasks and tending to thankless responsibilities, it can be hard to find the time to decompress and watch that television show you’ve been meaning to binge watch, or read a good book for a the first time in lord knows how …
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39 Funny Tweets Fresh From The Bird App
Many Americans are lamenting the fact that we’re barely into 2021 and this year has already proven to be as batshit crazy as 2020, if not more so. There’s a silver lining, though—the storming of the Capitol last week produced some top tier, hilarious content. Twitter may have banned the President of the United States, …
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Russian Oligarch Known As ‘Sausage King’ Murdered With Crossbow In Sauna
This week in surreal 2020 headlines: Russian meat mogul Vladimir ‘Sausage King’ Marugov was found dead in his Moscow home early Monday morning after intruders invaded Sausage King’s sauna, tied him and his partner up, demanded cash, and shot him with a crossbow. The woman managed to flee and call for help, though the assailants …
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