When you hear that bloodcurdling White Lotus intro theme play, you gather your dinner plate, pour yourself a glass of rosé, and hunker down in front of your screen, eager to watch the diabolical escapades of the rich and famous at this posh hotel in Thailand. Common folk like us have always been obsessed with …
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‘Heaven is a spotless kitchen with a perpetually restocked fridge’: In a chaotic world, cleaning videos give us a sense of control over our lives
Creators online have built careers filming a simple household task: Cleaning. As viewers, we spend countless minutes watching rugs be vacuumed, toilet bowls drowned in a rainbow of products, and even women reviving old, neglected gravestones. The internet has long celebrated the mundane, but cleaning videos have an especially soothing effect for some viewers. This …
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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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Nobody Is Actually Doing a ‘Morning Shed,’ Hyper-Optimized Beauty Routines Are Just the Latest Form of Engagement Bait
In morning routine videos across the internet, young women awake looking like hostage victims. Their mouths are taped shut, their jaws are wrapped in bandage-like tape, and their hair is tangled up in a mess of rollers. These «morning shed routines,» a type of hyper-optimized beauty regimen, crop up everywhere. Some screenshots have even made …
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Movies Aren’t Too Long, You Just Have No Attention Span
It doesn’t matter if you’re a film bro who regularly attends repertory movie screenings or a cinema know-nothing who only goes to the theater once a year to see Wicked or Deadpool & Wolverine; I’m willing to bet you’ve heard the complaint that «Movies are too long these days.» Perhaps you’ve even made this complaint …
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How Jemima Kirke From ‘Girls’ Became the Face of Internet Nihilism Through a Meme
Jemima Kirke, known for her role as Jessa on Lena Dunham’s Girls on HBO, is also known for her cheeky and blunt Instagram story posts. The Girls star frequently has «Ask Me Anything» Q&A-style conversations with her Instagram followers, oftentimes offering them soulful and spiritual advice on any personal life questions they may be seeking …
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‘Your TikTok auntie’: How older women are keeping the Gen Z app from completely crumbling to consumerism
You can tell a lot about a platform from the reputation of its oldest users. Facebook is notorious for courting the higher age brackets and thus attracting the more close-minded, technologically-incompetent chaos of «old people Facebook.» The anonymity of Reddit allows for users to blend in a little more seamlessly unless they announce themselves. TikTok, …
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Consuming Consumerism: How trendy TikTok foods are actually gross, greedy, and anti-culinary
Scrolling on TikTok can sometimes feel like sifting through a sea of consumer products, from skincare to home decor to whatever the TikTok shop has decided to sell to you. Watching someone bite into a sandwich or sip a drink can feel like a satisfying break from that constant salesmanship. In reality, though, it’s just …
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‘THIS is my emergency contact’: Why goofifying a fundamentally unserious romantic partner makes Gen Z feel safe despite the looming insecurity of the future
After the rockfall settles, dust swirls around you, thickening the already stale air. Blinking the stars out of your eyes, your vision adjusts to the dim light and despite your throbbing headache and the ringing in your ears, you catch a glimpse of the golden opening above where the silhouettes of pine trees watch over …
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‘The most unserious generation’: The millennialfication of Gen Z and why Zoomers have always been millennial lite
There is a specific brand of cringe compilation found on TikTok that is popular with Gen Z and is known as «Millennial core». Most of them recycle the same handful of examples displaying similar exaggerated, theater kid with a fandom Tumblr mannerisms. A diner at IHOP dances in her seat as she is served pancakes, …
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