For a generation entering the adult workforce in a post-pandemic world, the world of in-person office work can feel like a thing of the past. Remote work is at an all-time high, and for many members of Gen Z, the thought of going into an office five days a week—let alone suiting up in business …
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Wholesome Virality is the ‘Little Treat’ of Positivity that the Internet Desperately Needs: Why Trends like ‘Moo Deng’ Are Saving Humanity From an All-Out Tailspin into Utter Despair
Behold, the cutest living creature on earth–Moo Deng! She is a pygmy hippo from Thailand who’s grown increasingly popular online in the last month for a variety of reasons. Fondly named ‘bouncing pig’ in her native language, this charming aquatic mammal has shocked and awed the world with her charms, goofiness, and her little spicy …
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How The Celebrity Number Six Mystery Created Community In Meaninglessness
The long-running mystery of whose face was printed on a piece of fabric in 2008 has been solved. But to the untrained eye, it’s difficult to understand why anyone would care, let alone over 60,000 people on a subreddit. But this seemingly trivial microtrend is a case study of why the internet rewards just that: …
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Finding Community In Meaninglessness: How the mystery ‘Celebrity Number Six’ captured the minds of the internet
The long-running mystery of whose face was printed on a piece of fabric in 2008 has been solved. But to the untrained eye, it’s difficult to understand why anyone would care, let alone over 60,000 people on a subreddit. But this seemingly trivial microtrend is a case study of why the internet rewards just that: …
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‘The return of Vans Warped Tour, Y2K, and indie-sleaze’: How Millennial Nostalgia Has Become the Biggest Cash-Grab Since Student Loans
Y2K is becoming cool again. Millennials and Gen Z are romanticizing the tech-free days of the early 2000s with its excessive aesthetic, rebellious nature, and excitingly edgy offensiveness. Originality may be dying, but the market wants the feel-good memories from our youth, not something unfamiliar or innovative. Why improve or change anything when you can …
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Demure VS BRAT: How the trend uplifted modesty and denounced its predecessor of the messy party girl aka BRAT
As the wise Charli xcx once said, «I think the apple’s rotten right to the core / From all the things passed down from all the apples coming before». The apple in question? The internet. That ever-growing, overly-immersive, digital world, riddled with aesthetics and buzzwords. You’ve undoubtedly seen the «demure» meme everywhere. The term was …
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32 Gen Xers Share Their Hot Takes Only ’80s Kids Would Understand: ‘Perhaps this will get me kicked out of our awesome generation’
Pop culture has changed immensely over the years. How did we get from the era of mixtapes, Walkmans, and acid-washed jeans to TikTok, online dating, and artificial intelligence? Kids today will never know how good it was to grow up as a member of Gen X. Times were simpler: parents weren’t constantly tracking your location, …
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20+ Unpopular food opinions that are controversial yet brave: ‘Having a burger at 6-7 AM is alright!’
Everyone has their weird little food quirk, though some are less common than others. I’m the type of person who prefers cold pizza to reheated pizza almost 100% of the time. I also proudly inherited my father’s tradition of eating peanut butter with tortilla chips. And I’m a vocal champion of the snack-as-meal (aka charcuterie …
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‘4 hours at the end of the day is miserable’: Unpopular opinions about working 9-5
The 9-5 pace is one of the cruel realities for the contemporary worker. Though in some ways it has become less relevant than ever (with the advent of remote work and other technological advances offering more flexibility), it remains the core around which most folks revolve. And it seems arbitrary in some ways. It’s just …
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‘That’s the patriarchy!’: Shrek Fandom in Hot Water as They Come to the Realization That Fiona Should NOT Have Turned Into an Ogre at the End
We still love Donkey though!