We’re not in a recession—yet. But with the state of things currently, we’re not too far off. When something crazy, like Ed Sheeran becoming cool again happens, that’s when you take a backseat and let the cards fall where they may. The end is nigh. Unnatural blondes letting their brunette roots show, DIY «barn yard» …
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AITA?: How Reddit threads have become a morality compass, guiding society’s most complex queries through random strangers’ opinions
As teens, whenever something went wrong, most folks would go running to their friends to ask for advice. Whether mom and dad were arguing about the housing crisis or texts with your crush needed a flirtier angle, our teenaged selves sought feedback from the one person we knew would be there for us: Our best …
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‘One More Game’: How ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Hypnotizes Audiences by Toeing the Line Between Dystopia and an Entirely Plausible Modern Reality
What would you do for $38.5 million USD? For those of us wallowing in the 99%, the prospect of earning millions of dollars by playing a few kid’s games would be hard to pass up. As we look up through a glass ceiling at the billionaire class, while they sip their champagne and enjoy the …
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How ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Hypnotizes Audiences by Toeing the Line Between Dystopia and a Plausible Modern Reality
What would you do for $38.5 million USD? For those of us wallowing in the 99%, the prospect of earning millions of dollars by playing a few kid’s games would be hard to pass up. As we look up through a glass ceiling at the billionaire class, while they sip their champagne and enjoy the …
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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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‘Hello? I am right here!’: People of Reddit Share Silly Social Habits They Wish Society Never Would Have Accepted
I think we can all agree that our modern-day society has reached a new level of weirdness, and most of us don’t know how to feel about the social norms we find ourselves following on a daily basis. Sure, we’ve obviously evolved as a society, we are much more aware and mindful of each other, …
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‘Keeping batteries in the fridge’: 20+ Weird habits our parents had that are definitely not normal anymore
Behaviors and customs, like anything, change with time. As technology changes and history continues to unfold, we change right along with it. We don’t use chamber pots and wear petticoats anymore, do we? But what are the changes that have happened over our lifetimes, or our parents’ lifetimes? Time and technology move and change in …
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‘Why are teens so dang loud’: Gen Z shares their most Boomer sounding complaints about the modern world
What’s that saying… you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become your parents? Something like that. It’s a cliche, but it’s almost inevitable. When you’re a kid, you can swear every which way that you’re going to do things differently than your folks. It’s an honest gesture, and you might …
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’45 year mortgages’: 20+ Wild predictions for the future that sound pretty plausible
Nobody has a crystal ball (except maybe the creators of The Simpsons). But it sure is fun to make guesses about what might come to pass. I remember doing that a lot when I was graduating high school- trying to guess what would become of myself and my classmates. Would Josh grow up to be …
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25+ Fake Deep Posts Because We Live in a Society
The «fake deep» phase we all go through when we’re in middle school is a necessary phase of development. Just like teething or learning that you are separate from your mother, we must all think at some point, «Wow, have you ever thought about how we’re all just floating through space and everything is meaningless?» …
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