Remember when the news was delivered straight to your door? Your daily informational pamphlet came couriered to your front porch, carried dutifully in the bicycle basket of the boy who lives down the street. Dad read the newspaper at breakfast, Mom flipped through a magazine with coffee circles on the cover, and your siblings fought …
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The TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’
It was a cold winter morning in January of 2017. The gray overcast skies reflected the reality of social media as we knew it: Vine is gone. What was once a hub for six-second momentary ha-ha’s was now a graveyard for all of our favorite comedians. The last remnants of Vine would be stuck in …
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The tease of a potential TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’
It was a cold winter morning in January of 2017. The gray overcast skies reflected the reality of social media as we knew it: Vine is gone. What was once a hub for six-second momentary ha-ha’s was now a graveyard for all of our favorite comedians. The last remnants of Vine would be stuck in …
Seguir leyendo The tease of a potential TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’
Wholesome Virality is the ‘Little Treat’ of Positivity that the Internet Desperately Needs: Why Trends like ‘Moo Deng’ Are Saving Humanity From an All-Out Tailspin into Utter Despair
Behold, the cutest living creature on earth–Moo Deng! She is a pygmy hippo from Thailand who’s grown increasingly popular online in the last month for a variety of reasons. Fondly named ‘bouncing pig’ in her native language, this charming aquatic mammal has shocked and awed the world with her charms, goofiness, and her little spicy …
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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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40+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (April 20, 2024)
It’s so fun to witness a trend cycle in its entirety. To watch a meme be born, watch it thrive, perhaps even participate in its proliferation, see its demise, and then if you stick around long enough, watch it inevitably return. To be on Twitter is to watch this unfold in real-time. If you’re lucky …
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35+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (April 6, 2024)
Twitter is a friend to some and an enemy to many. It used to be a hullabaloo of fun and friendship and celebrity gossip, and now it seems to be the epicenter of all annoying internet takes. I was talking to a friend recently about people who you can tell are online vs. people who …
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45+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (March 23, 2024)
We all know what doom scrolling is by now. It’s that feeling when you’re stuck in an endless cycle of negativity online, unable to look away, much like a car accident. But I think it’s about time we introduce other types of scrolling. What about hungry scrolling? I do that when I’m about ready for …
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‘Nobody knew it was me’: Teenager edits K-pop star’s Wikipedia page as a joke, leading numerous internet outlets to promote celebrity’s hilarious nickname
Remember those times at school when teachers would insist that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information? They would tell you that you can’t use it in papers, and no one would really understand why, because everything on there looked pretty informed and well-based. But then, you discover that pretty much anyone can edit …
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45+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (March 9, 2024)
The best thing about Twitter is that you don’t have to be on it in order to reap its benefits. Case and point: this meme list. All the hard work is done for you and you get to just sit back, relax, and only take in the content worth taking in. Let me tell you, …
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