Kinda chic to… obsessively make meaning out of the mundane. It seems like every internet trend asks us to do the same thing: take something mundane and try to squeeze as much out of it as possible. Outlandish content is sure to get some eyeballs, but the bread and butter of online content is much …
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Woman Scolds Male Neighbor for Waving at Her and Her Husband, Claiming it was Disrespectful
What’s disrespectful about waving «hi» to your neighbors? I have a bad feeling about people who don’t let their husband have any female friends, or vice versa. If you view every interaction that your wife has with another man as a potential situation where she is cheating, you probably don’t have a very healthy marriage. …
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Guy talks trash about his boss to his girlfriend constantly, 1 year later finds out they’re friends: ‘The universe has a sense of humor’
Have you ever experienced a weird real-life crossover? You would hardly ever expect to find two people from entirely different circles who know each other. Especially when you personally know both of them and have never introduced them before. Our different social spheres tend to be completely separated: we have co-workers, college friends, childhood friends, …
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‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glasses bridges with rocks
If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
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‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glass bridges with rocks
If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
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Corporate Influencers are Trying to Romanticize the 9-to-5, and It’s Not Working
Social media is full of aspirational content: Extensive beauty routines, constant travel, and suites of pricey products flood our feeds. But what about all of us with regular, unglamorous jobs? Turns out there are influencers for that too. So-called «9-to-5 influencers» like Davis Clarke and Connor Hubbard. They do their best to show that the …
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Close Friend Stories Sell an Exclusivity That’s all an Illusion
Have you ever opened up the Instagram app, taken a glance at Instagram Stories that you’ve yet to view, only to see that you’ve been added to the Close Friends story of somebody who is the furthest thing from a close friend of yours? What’s the deal with that? If you’ve been living under a …
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‘The social satirist of the moment’: How the trendy starter pack meme account is reviving hipsterism and digging the grave for internet humor
On the internet, marketing is king, and the users sell it best. Certain social media platforms would cease to exist without users shilling a melting pot of aspirational identities for users to choose from. We know by now that the purest form of internet marketing weaponizer is «the influencer«—it is right there in the name …
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The Funniest TikTok Ban Memes from the Shortest-Lived Hysteria in Internet History
The last two days for TikTok users (and all over social media, actually) have been a crazy ride. We went from accepting the ban we have been dreading for weeks, to saying tearful goodbyes, to a weird 12-hour silence, to a new kind of chaos once the ban was lifted. Right before the ban, TikTok …
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‘They need to add boy mom to the DSM-5’: ‘Proud boy mom’ laments being ‘forced’ to be a mother and not a partner to her son
Obviously, an important part of being a parent is loving your kids, but how do people manage to find so many ways of doing this that are blatantly not normal? This is never clearer than with the ‘boy mom’ phenomenon, in which women construct whole identities and truly weird relationship dynamics around the fact that …
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