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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How The Celebrity Number Six Mystery Created Community In Meaninglessness
The long-running mystery of whose face was printed on a piece of fabric in 2008 has been solved. But to the untrained eye, it’s difficult to understand why anyone would care, let alone over 60,000 people on a subreddit. But this seemingly trivial microtrend is a case study of why the internet rewards just that: …
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Finding Community In Meaninglessness: How the mystery ‘Celebrity Number Six’ captured the minds of the internet
The long-running mystery of whose face was printed on a piece of fabric in 2008 has been solved. But to the untrained eye, it’s difficult to understand why anyone would care, let alone over 60,000 people on a subreddit. But this seemingly trivial microtrend is a case study of why the internet rewards just that: …
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Demure VS BRAT: How the trend uplifted modesty and denounced its predecessor of the messy party girl aka BRAT
As the wise Charli xcx once said, «I think the apple’s rotten right to the core / From all the things passed down from all the apples coming before». The apple in question? The internet. That ever-growing, overly-immersive, digital world, riddled with aesthetics and buzzwords. You’ve undoubtedly seen the «demure» meme everywhere. The term was …
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25+ Tech Memes for People Whose Parents Think They’re Computer Geniuses
It’s a near-universal experience of millennials and below that whenever we help an elder with a simple tech problem, they act like we’re Steve Wozniak himself. I’m no coder, I just know how to press control-alt-delete. The folks in my generation grew up with tech all around us. We taught ourselves how to use the …
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Internet detectives solve the mystery of «The Crying Shed» and the Long Woman: ‘No wonder this man is in here crying’
The internet has long been a great place for solving mysteries, with internet detectives being renowned for reaching the correct conclusions… And if you’re not catching the sarcasm, you clearly haven’t been online much at all. This is an old thread, about as old as the sands of time itself as far as the internet …
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29 Fascinating Posts From the Underbelly of Wikipedia
As I’ve said here before, if I could only keep one website on the internet, it would be Wikipedia. In fact, maybe I’d be okay with wiping the internet and starting over with just Wikipedia. No more social media, no more harmful content, just a wholesome fountain of information that never has ads and is …
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‘Whole slews of the internet just defunct’: Internet veterans bemoan loss of online third spaces, fun websites
The internet has changed so much in the short time it’s existed that it’s hard to remember that it wasn’t always like this. The internet, to me, used to be a place where I would play fun dress up games, talk to other kids on Club Penguin, research fairies on fairy websites, and update my …
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27 Hilarious Instances of Community Notes Debunking Misinformed Tweets
There’s something so vindicating about the community notes section on Twitter, when it’s used right. Watching misinformation get taken down in one fell swoop by wise commenters is like popping an extra juicy pimple. Sorry for that image, but the simile stands. Twitter, (we’re not calling it X) a website famous for hawking wrong info, …
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Star Behind Iconic Stan Twitter Meme Shares The Story Behind The Photo
A picture is worth a thousand words. And so is the case with the iconic pic that became a staple of stan Twitter, featuring a young woman fitted up in 2015’s best, giving a sassy pose that captured the internet’s hearts. It soon became a blank canvas for all sorts of fan posting, where users …
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