‘That’s such a Hufflepuff thing to say’: Harry Potter fans and haters react to Miriam Margolyes criticizing adult Harry Potter obsessives

When it comes to the Millennial legacy, there is one thing that will give avocado toast a run for its money. It’s the fact that this group is one of the first to be such devoted fans of their favorite childhood media when they grow up. I know there probably are some Boomers who are …
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‘Me at night thinking of fantasies to get myself to sleep’: Gen Z TikTokers Advocate for the Practice of ‘Shifting’, Puzzle the Rest of the Internet

The whole point of fantasy is that it seems better than reality. The main reason for this is that it isn’t real in any way, shape, or form. It wasn’t too long ago that the general consensus was that if you wanted to realize a dream, you had to put in the work for it …
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Hollywood Announces Official ‘Barbenheimer’ Movie, the Internet Protests

Lovers of both memes and film will look back lovingly at the summer of 2023. Thanks to two major motion pictures, cinema seemed to be So Back with a capital B. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were the double feature that none of us knew we needed until the internet started overflowing with …
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Judgmental Dad Receives Clapbacks For Complaining Childfree People Don’t Realize How Much Free Time They Have

There are a lot of things about the idea of parenthood that scare me, and one of those is how the concept of time changes. I’ve heard enough accounts from parents to realize that having babies and little kids takes up 99% of your day, sometimes to the extent you can barely fit in a …
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Foodie Jokester Tries to Slate Salt and Pepper, Reignites the Great Food Seasoning Debate

Food is undeniably part of the pantheon of evergreen internet conversation topics that will always elicit a strong reaction. Taste is an important sense for most of us, and we have all grown up with certain cultural expectations of what good food should be. These vary a lot, and it is never more apparent than …
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MrBeast Causes Controversy With ‘Experiment’ Where Two Strangers Try to Win $500,000 by Staying in the Same Room for 100 Days

The criticism of the internet is not an alien concept to MrBeast. He’s built multimillion dollar empire from his algorithmically-trained YouTube videos and the acts of philanthropy he often displays in them, but they’re not to everybody’s taste. With every passing day, he seems to be becoming more and more of a demented, Black Mirror …
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Christian Girl Autumn Icon Caitlin Covington Inspires Twitter With Wholesome Family ‘Fall 101’ Video

I can’t lie, I find most social media influencers and their brand partnerships to be incredibly annoying. The one exception to the rule is when their influencing turns into a hilarious meme.  When the Christian Girl Autumn phenomenon took over the internet a while ago, poster girl Caitlin Covington took her newfound responsibility as the …
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Airbnb in Scotland Splits Opinion After Recreating Shrek’s Swamp as a «Luxury Getaway»

Airbnb is far from a perfect company, and there are many valid criticisms to be made about it. However, one of its undeniable benefits is that it allows the adventurous traveling public to rent out places that are a real experience. From houseboats to treehouses, there’s something for everyone — but all pale in comparison …
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Vigilant Woman Faces Criticism for Protecting Drunk Friend From Sleazeball, Receives Backup From Twitter

Being a woman sucks sometimes. There have always been certain situations that wind up being more dangerous for us, and it makes it all the more important that we have other women looking out for us as a result. Most who are decent friends would consider protecting one another from a potentially bad situation as …
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Twitter Reacts to Techno Mechanicus, the Secret Third Child of Grimes and Elon Musk

Baby names have long been one of those areas in which famous people are liable to get a little too, shall we say, «creative». Nobody comes up with a moniker made for playground teasing quite like certain celebrities.  In recent years, the most notorious of these has to be Grimes and Elon Musk. When they …
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