The world as we know it can be an isolating place, where we’re each secluded to our own internet bubbles. It’s easy for anyone to feel caught between the real world and the online world these days. We spend so much of our time online that it can start to feel more like home than …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 15, 2025)
It is not like we needed another app to waste away our days with that continually sold us stuff and quite possibly spied on us, but TikTok boldly rushed in at the end of the last decade to fill that very narrow gap anyway. The rest, as they like to say, is history: no longer …
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21 Memes for Technical ‘Adults’ With the Heart of a Teenager
On paper, I’m technically an adult. I have a job, I have an apartment, I buy my groceries, pay my bills, and I regularly get my oil changed. I can vote, I can start a business, I can buy whatever I want on eBay, but deep down, I don’t want any of those things. I …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 8, 2025)
TikTok is, in this day and age, the undisputed king of rot in bed with your phone time. There are few platforms so scrollable and varied, staging a continuous assault on the senses until your brain can’t take any more or it’s 3 AM on a weeknight and you have work tomorrow. The reasoning behind …
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‘Fighting algorithm hypnosis:’ As Gen Z and millennials stray from social media, they now have to worry about their Boomer parents getting addicted to the screen
Whispers of a vibrating phone, beckoning unanswered calls, and constant post notifications have become white noise at the family dinner table. While your parents sit in silence, scrolling through their phones and chuckling at Facebook posts, they’ve excluded themselves from any kind of human interaction; it’s become clear that family time includes their entire social …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 1, 2025)
For better or for worse, this era of human history is at least partly defined by the follies of the clock app. Even those who can’t think of anything more nightmarish than being forced to have a casual scroll through the For You Page have likely had their lives touched by TikTok, assuming they are …
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26 Retro Throwback Snapshots of the Breezy Vibes of Springtime in the 70’s
We can finally turn the page on this long, cold winter. As we reminisce on the conclusion of wintry months, it’s hard not to drift our memory cache towards a time where it seems it was always springtime: The 70s. With bright patterns, floral headbands, short shorts, and a baby oil tan, the 70s spring …
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Old Souls: Why the dwindling prospects of retirement have turned traditionally geriatric hobbies into the new quarter-life crisis
Finally!—A yellow-throated thrush has found your bird feeder! Outfitted with hummingbird bottles, a migratory bird-specific seed tray, and an HD hidden camera, you would think that your yard would be the main hub for the neighborhood bird population, but this particular thrush has evaded you for weeks. You once felt silly for spending $200 on …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 25, 2025)
There is an argument to be made that we have few better documents of what it is like to be alive in the social media age than TikTok. Sure, those who actually create content for the platform are a tiny fraction of those who use it, but it nonetheless informs the culture and thinking of …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 18, 2025)
In the dog-eat-dog world of social media, it is TikTok that holds most of the cards when it comes to having culturally impactful clout. Rightly or wrongly, it is the place that many people turn to when they want to feel like they have their finger on the pulse of contemporary culture and what the …
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