Acrylic nails dance across the head of a $200 microphone with an ear-scraping drumbeat of clicks and clacks. A muffled outward breath clouds around the sharper staccato sound of finger-nail percussion like a soothing blanket of white noise. A soft whisper soon follows, flowing deep within your consciousness like a waking dream, hinting at a …
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‘[He] decided to become a tortured artist overnight’: Friend calls out dude who constantly switches up style, he gets angry at them for making him seem ‘fake’
It can take a lifetime to hone your personal style. Everyone has different approaches to dressing and they’ll likely change as you get older and as the trends cycle. If you told me I had to dress like the 20-year-old version of me for the rest of my life… I would be pretty upset. It’s …
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18 Inauguration Memes Honoring First Lady Melania Trump’s Viral, Show-Stealing Hat
We all saw it, didn’t we–the hat that broke the internet. Recently, Trump’s presidential inauguration is all we’ve been seeing online. With talks of Mars, CEOs, TikTok, climate change, and other world dramas, the biggest news to hit the meme world came in the form of some spicy headwear. Melania Trump, the First Lady of …
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Tastemakers speculate on the defining aesthetics of the 2010s: ‘Rose gold and griege’
If the speed of the trend cycle is anything to go by, the decade just before this one is getting a revival. The problem is, not everybody can identify what it is from that time that is going to be revived. It often takes quite a long time for hindsight to fully develop on anything, …
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From Beans on Toast to Tavern Food: Why UK Food Will Always Be a Scapegoat to the US Internet
It’s not difficult to set off an argument between the US and UK sides of the internet, especially when, like me, you’re a Brit. How much should you tip in a restaurant? Is a dryer really a necessary household appliance? Should you let a domesticated cat go outside? The topics are varied and the outrage …
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Sticking Out Our Gyatt For the Rizzler: Are We Really Slang Fatigued?
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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‘The kitten heels without the cubicles’: The ‘office siren’ microtrend and Gen Z’s new vision for the workplace
For a generation entering the adult workforce in a post-pandemic world, the world of in-person office work can feel like a thing of the past. Remote work is at an all-time high, and for many members of Gen Z, the thought of going into an office five days a week—let alone suiting up in business …
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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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‘Being obsessed with bacon. Or cats. Or narwhals’: 20+ things that were socially acceptable in 2010, but weird today
The second decade of a new century is often an odd one. It’s a time when people have mostly shaken off the influences of the previous hundred years, but they aren’t quite sure how it looks like the next few are going to pan out yet. In fact, they are the literal teen years of …
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25+ Book Memes for Fiction Lovers on the Right Side of BookTok
When did reading become a… trend? I don’t know why or how, but I’m kind of glad it did. Folks all over the internet are bonding over their favorite page-turners, and forming little online communities around the novels they love. People are buying Kindles at a breakneck pace and even getting accessories to trick them …
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