Soulless, bland, and alarmingly expensive chain restaurants have taken over the modern dining experience. They cheat out homegrown mom-and-pop restaurants with their big-britches financial backers, their coupon-coded marketing schemes, and remarkably potent long island ice teas. Boomers and Gen X are seeking comfort in restaurant conformity, perpetuating the mega-chain dinner model by prioritizing predictability, familiarity, …
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Streamers Aren’t Your Friends and They Never Were
Live streaming video content offers audiences real-time reactions and interactive communication with creators. Since the inception of Twitch, the largest live streaming platform online, streaming has broken down the walls between audiences and the subjects of their voyeurism, blurring the lines between celebrity figures and real-world relationships. However, after three decades of exponential growth, the …
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Is the Internet a Young Person’s Game or Do You Know Who Sombr and ROLE MODEL Are?
It hurts to grow up. It hurts even more to grow up online, where it feels like you’ve turned into a «chopped unc» before you could even figure out what a «chopped unc» is. (Quick refresher: chopped equals undesirable. Unc is short for uncle, which means old.) And nothing makes you feel older than a …
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‘Smart’ Tech Everything is Making Everyone Look Dumb
On October 20, 2025, The Amazon Web Services (AWS) crashed, resulting in a colossal collapse of internet infrastructure, global industries coming to a standstill, and the brief yet manic realization of society’s crippling reliance on functional Wi-Fi. In layman’s terms, the computers stopped computing, and everything fell apart. However, as the working world came to …
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Comedy is Elevating the Horror Genre Towards Cinematic Prestige
There are a handful of timeless tropes that define horror as a genre. Monsters appear over the protagonist’s shoulder, jump scares shock the audience, and moody lighting has persisted since the dawn of horror in cinema. But there are a few modern tweaks that have taken horror filmmaking into the cinematic hall of fame. Most …
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How Entitled Parents are Ruining the Local Skatepark
Once gatekept by a punk, and sometimes criminal, reputation, skating used to be reserved for the troublemaking kids who skipped class, robbed convenience stores, and learned to do graffiti. Proud hoodlums swarmed the skateparks, learning kickflips, practicing grinds, and praying one day they might actually land a 50/50. Looking up to the older kids at …
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How Millennials Pioneered Meme Culture and Made Online Humor What It Is Today
The average millennial looks at 20-30 memes every day. If you don’t believe that statistic from Forbes, then you must not be a doomscrolling, meme-loving, dark humor-fueled millennial. Known for eating avocado toast, drowning in student debt, and normalizing Sunday brunch, millennials have contributed far more to the modern social narrative than the participation trophy. …
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Ultra-Rich Influencers Are Everything Wrong With Influencer Culture, and Everything That Social Media Wants
One of the most sobering reminders about the importance of social media is just how many of the 0.001% are desperate to have a say over it. While Elon Musk and his takeover of Twitter may be the most high-profile and humiliating example of recent years, there are a number of very wealthy people who …
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How Gen Z are Rewriting the Corporate Jargon Lexicon
With bright eyes and bushy tails, fresh college grads leap into the workforce, hoping to land a cushy corporate job to line their pockets, pay off their student loans, and beef-up their future resume. Entry-level, cheaply-dressed, and full of ambition, these new additions to the workforce don’t realize they’re entering foreign lands and will soon …
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‘The Lion’ Meme Reveals How the New Internet Clout is All About Vulnerability
It’s hardly headline news that people overshare on the internet. Still, the innovations in the field never cease to entertain, and a trend this year has proven clout-worthy because of it. «The Lion» meme uses a black and white photo of a lion and draws on a tacky inspirational quote and the dumb countercultural movements …
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