What would you do for $38.5 million USD? For those of us wallowing in the 99%, the prospect of earning millions of dollars by playing a few kid’s games would be hard to pass up. As we look up through a glass ceiling at the billionaire class, while they sip their champagne and enjoy the …
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Why Mukbang YouTuber Nikocado Avocado is the King of Method Youtubing
It’s a grey November day in Florida, and it’s raining softly on the roof of a car. In it, an overweight man has been sitting in the driver’s seat weeping intermittently. He is about to eat the viral spicy chicken sandwich from Popeyes, which he has spent some time brandishing at the camera through his …
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«Mukbang» YouTuber Nikocado Avocado, the king of method Youtubing: ‘Four months ago, fans, haters, and the blissfully ignorant were gifted the conclusion to a narrative arc nearly a decade in the making…’
It’s a grey November day in Florida, and it’s raining softly on the roof of a car. In it, an overweight man has been sitting in the driver’s seat weeping intermittently. He is about to eat the viral spicy chicken sandwich from Popeyes, which he has spent some time brandishing at the camera through his …
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‘Twas the Escapism Before Christmas: Why Wholesome Hallmark Plots Dominate the Holiday Film Industry with Their Predictability, B-List Acting, and Strict Happy Endings
Put on your red dress and get ready to be kissed, because Hallmark movies are back on the air for the Christmas season! I don’t personally watch Hallmark movies for reasons I’ll divulge later, but I learned recently that whenever the female protagonist puts on a red dress, there’s a 100% chance that romance is …
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‘Addison Rae won over a side of the internet that had once despised her’: How the former TikTok star broke the curse of her mainstream origins and became cool
The pandemic was so long that Addison Rae went from someone who you might recognize from doing TikTok dances with Jimmy Fallon to an actual legitimate rising pop icon. A mere four years ago, the Alabama-born influencer was a member of one of TikTok’s first and cringiest content houses, The Hype House, which was known …
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‘[They] don’t know better’: Overworked parents and their kids are being shamelessly victimized by corner-cutting YouTube celebs endorsing the barely-edible food kits ‘Lunchly’
Back when we were young, us lucky kids got our lunches made by mom or dad. We used to be embarrassed by the little hearts scribbled on the side of our brown-bagged lunch, but every day, we’d be excited to see what kind of sandwich we got, if they remembered the baby carrots we liked, …
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From Beans on Toast to Tavern Food: Why UK Food Will Always Be a Scapegoat to the US Internet
It’s not difficult to set off an argument between the US and UK sides of the internet, especially when, like me, you’re a Brit. How much should you tip in a restaurant? Is a dryer really a necessary household appliance? Should you let a domesticated cat go outside? The topics are varied and the outrage …
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Memeifying Marketing: Why Brands Have Embraced the Meme, Flooding Our Feeds With Cringe for the Sake of Being Memorable
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Sticking Out Our Gyatt For the Rizzler: Are We Really Slang Fatigued?
On Reddit’s infamous r/teenagers sub, a user offers up a post with the title, «I f****** HATE being 13». They elaborate: «Yesterday my whole class had to stay behind for 30 minutes because some kid kept yelling ‘sigma sigma on the wall, who’s the skibidiest of them all.’» It would seem that even the first …
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‘I Know That Dunkin Donuts, Checkers, and Popeyes!’: The «Legendary» Myrtle-Broadway and Why Acknowledging a Recognizable Location Can Create Meme Magic
How and why does a mere image become an enduring meme? Is it because there is something inherently funny and special about it, or is it simply because it scratches the itch of recognition and relatability immediately upon viewing it? That’s a question that can be asked of every viral sensation, but it isn’t always …
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