So much of my social media feed is food. It’s home cooks whipping up «easy» recipes that look like they would take me two hours to complete. Perfectly-coiffed girls saunter off to pilates and sip on health-optimized smoothies. Mothers make ginormous batches of breakfast sandwiches for their hordes of children. All of it seems almost …
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We shouldn’t be seeing kids on social media, even those ones
We all likely have an image in our head of an evil «mommy vlogger» who uses her children as plot points, living vicariously through them in a vain effort to fulfill her own desire for stardom. Constantly pointing a camera in their faces, hoping that they’ll say something usable for social media views and engagement. …
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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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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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‘The gift she got me was creepy and invasive’: Pushy woman gifts boyfriend’s pregnant daughter a videographer for her live birth, cries when daughter politely declines
Giving birth is an incredibly personal experience. You’re using your body in ways you never have before, and things can easily go wrong. Not to mention, it’s the first time you truly get to meet your baby, so you’re probably going to be protective over who gets to be there. However, for some people, their …
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The TikTok shop has ruined TikTok: From short-form comedy clips to an e-commerce abyss, TikTok proves that consumerism will always be on top
There’s no doubt that TikTok is one of the most used social media platforms of this decade. Most memes and popular trends of the 2020s originate from the app, proving that the influence of its users is nothing short of monumental. With 1.9 billion registered users globally, we’re sure you, your children, and your children’s …
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‘The Aesthetification of Everything’: Kindle Girlies, BookTok and How Reading Became an Aesthetic
It seems that everywhere you turn, what you’re doing has been turned into an «aesthetic.» In the online world, every mundane activity is an opportunity for branding, product placement, and up-sells. Hitting the gym requires a constellation of pre-workout supplements, Apple over-ear headphones, and Gymshark matching sets. You’re not getting your steps in, you’re going …
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Wife’s ‘fridgescaping’ hobby takes over family fridge, husband and son lash out and belittle her: ‘Be nice to your wife’
Everyone is allowed to have a hobby. Some of us ski or snowboard. Some of us scrapbook. Some of us collect rare Sonny Angels. Some of us plant vegetables, and some of us fridgescape. If you’ve been on TikTok, you might have noticed the trend of «fridge restocking» videos, where homemakers meticulously organize and stock …
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‘Skibidi toilet’: 25+ Popular Trends That Make Absolutely No Sense to the Wise Ol’ Fogey Generations
Influencers have always been a breed of their own. Tapping their nails on tubes of cream, doing GRWM videos, and setting up cameras to film themselves ‘candidly’ walking out of their front door, they’re unironically self-obsessive by trade. Since when did flamboyant narcissism become an endearing trait online? Well, there are plenty of trends these …
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‘I actually don’t believe that your name is Katherine’: Entitled woman marries into billionaire family, harasses name twin for Instagram handle
People will go feral over Instagram handles. They’re so closely linked to your digital identity that people get territorial over them. If you’ve had the same username for years, I understand not wanting to let it go. On the other hand, if I kept my username from back in the day of AOL instant messenger… I’d probably …
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