The entirety of social media relies on the fact that some people are physically incapable of shutting up. It’s an ecosystem sustained by diarrhea of the keyboard and/or phone camera. While many have criticized this state of affairs, it’s not until recently that we have had the meme-ready vocabulary to describe it: the online third …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is IJBOL?
We could argue for days about what are the most important markers for defining shifts in internet culture. Many would point to the rise in new platforms, or would appeal to a certain style of meme. While both of these vital, 2023 has reminded us of a less obvious, but still essential factor in measuring …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is a Canon Event? (June 22, 2023)
We can continue to lament the rise of TikTok, and point sagely to the likes of Black Mirror until our pointer fingers fall off. The youths of today have no intention of stopping a very particular way of romanticizing their lives: by pretending it’s all one big movie. It’s not groundbreaking to state that it’s …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What Are Gay Test Drawings? (June 11, 2023)
What would Pride Month be without a little (not so) good natured gatekeeping of the LGBTQ community? Traditionally, social media has seen this as a time for companies to make their logos rainbow colored in ‘solidarity’, and as the basis for some of most infuriating arguments to have ever graced God’s green Earth. This includes …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is an Almond Mom? (May 21, 2023)
These days, the shape of women’s bodies goes in and out of fashion faster than they can create plastic surgeries to replicate them. Through it all, however, one constant remains: they will be treated better if they’re skinny in the right places. It sucks, not least because it contributes to body image issues in the …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is Borg? (February 11, 2023)
Kids these days, with their TikToks and Minecrafts. Do they even know how to have good old-fashioned substance abusing fun any more? The media would have us believe that the younger generations are abstemious little angels that are getting less wasted than ever before. Perhaps this is true statistically, but it’s hard to think that …
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Millennial Helpfully Explains How Gen Z Use Emojis Differently
Language is one of the most obvious ways in which one generation separates itself from another. Fashion, music, and politics take a while to change with the times, but new ways of communicating can be thought up in a matter of moments. These days, all it takes is being in the right place and at …
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No One Knows What’s Going On In My Brain
…Not even me!