The cultural phenomenon surrounding Letterboxd reviews proves that you don’t even have to do anything notable to enrage your fellow internet user. You can do so by merely rating a movie in a way the masses don’t approve.
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‘Attention spans [are] officially broken’: Netflix is dumbing down their content so you can keep scrolling
Remember the dog, Dug, from the Pixar movie, Up? A lovable sort, this pea-brained golden retriever acted as a comical relief, personifying the short attention spans we typically see in goldens. Through a collar that translates dog thoughts to speech, the audience catches a glimpse of the goofy, single-track mind of the family dog, lending …
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‘This is how you age if you’re unproblematic’: How looking young became a sign of moral uprightness online
Saying that a celebrity «doesn’t age» goes beyond praising someone for their looks. It also tends to mean that you agree with whatever that celebrity has just done on a moral level, whether it be their politics, their cultural takes, or the football team they’re rooting for, especially on Twitter. This tweet about Anne Hathaway, …
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AITA?: How Reddit threads have become a morality compass, guiding society’s most complex queries through random strangers’ opinions
As teens, whenever something went wrong, most folks would go running to their friends to ask for advice. Whether mom and dad were arguing about the housing crisis or texts with your crush needed a flirtier angle, our teenaged selves sought feedback from the one person we knew would be there for us: Our best …
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How Social Media is Ruining the Outdoors as Influencers Expose Once-Secluded Wonders of Nature for the Sake of Clicks
Ahh, there’s nothing quite like the blissful sounds of nature: Birds singing, babbling brooks, and the racket of 1,000 cameras going off at the same time… Wait a minute, that last part doesn’t sound right. There are 8.2 billion people on earth, but you’d think there would still be a few corners of untouched wilderness …
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Grocery hauls are the new status symbol: ‘Being able to afford rent n’ groceries is being romanticized by Gen Z’
From thousand-dollar Erewhon hauls to fridge restocking to simple «come grocery shop with me» videos, influencers give grocery shopping a glamorous treatment online. Celebrating and romanticizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous is nothing new, but now that longing-affluent fascination has trickled down to even mundane chores. This newer, even more confounding type of …
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Why Charli D’Amelio’s Casting in the Chorus of ‘& Juliet’ is a Brilliant Moment in Stunt Casting History
It would have been hard to believe in 2019, at the start of her rise to fame, that in six years’ time, TikTok sensation Charli D’Amelio would be making her debut on Broadway. At the time, there was literally no telling whether skyrocketing on TikTok would translate to any kind of success in mainstream entertainment …
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The Re-Release of The Sims and The Sims 2 Proves That Life Simulators Don’t Need More Realism, But Satire
One of the most popular memes inspired by the iconic life simulator The Sims uses a screenshot from The Sims 3. It depicts an infant Sim lying on the floor on fire while its mom stares intently at a computer screen, playing video games. It acts as an apt metaphor not only for the addictive …
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Satisfying ASMR ‘restock’ videos are overconsumption propaganda on steroids
Acrylic nails dance across the head of a $200 microphone with an ear-scraping drumbeat of clicks and clacks. A muffled outward breath clouds around the sharper staccato sound of finger-nail percussion like a soothing blanket of white noise. A soft whisper soon follows, flowing deep within your consciousness like a waking dream, hinting at a …
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‘With Arms Wide Open’: How Memes Resurrect Long-Lost Lore Through Nostalgification and Elevate Old Trends That Deserve an Encore
What do Creed and Shrek have in common? Of course, both embody the post-grunge anthems of the early 2000s, but more recently, these two icons are forming a new fandom with Gen Z, earning a delayed round of applause through memeification. As you’ve probably noticed, the resurgence of 2000s trends are relentless. We’re constantly dodging …
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