‘You’re cooked!’: How the exhausting chore of posting has created an obsession with culinary slang

We are living in a cook or be cooked world, according to the internet lingo of today. Get a photo taken at an unflattering angle and you are obviously «chopped.» Seeing something funny or ridiculous has you «fried.» A young person says something naïve, and they’re «losing recipes.» Plus, stans—the extreme fans of celebrities—copy artists …
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‘Yogurt dipped Pringles’: A subreddit encouraging terrible home cooked meals is the last authentic place online to be yourself

So much of my social media feed is food. It’s home cooks whipping up «easy» recipes that look like they would take me two hours to complete. Perfectly-coiffed girls saunter off to pilates and sip on health-optimized smoothies. Mothers make ginormous batches of breakfast sandwiches for their hordes of children. All of it seems almost …
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A Dose of Over-Caffeinated Memes for Sleepy Insomniacs Who Have Unlocked Infinite Eye Bags

After hours of doom-scrolling on your phone, eating 6 melatonin gummies, and listening to white noise box fans (8 hour loops), you’ve finally reached the point where you’re feeling tired enough to sleep. You look down at your phone to set your alarm for work tomorrow, with pleasant dreams already downloading in your mind, and …
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Funniest Sleepy Memes for People Who Would Risk Their Career for 5 More Minutes in Bed

To snooze or not to snooze? That is pretty much always the question when you’re swaddled in blankets, your house is cold, and your Monday morning work alarms are ringing. It doesn’t matter that you set 15 alarms that are 6 minutes apart, that 6 minutes is the most important decision making moment of your …
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