People Debate the Merits of Restocking Videos, a Recent TikTok Phenomenon

If you’ve spent any time on TikTok or even Instagram reels recently, chances are you’ve come across a restocking video. These popular videos generally feature a disembodied hand (or hands) filling a refrigerator, pantry, or bathroom with brand-new products. Most of the time, these products are removed from their original packaging and «re-homed» into some …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is Borg? (February 11, 2023)

Kids these days, with their TikToks and Minecrafts. Do they even know how to have good old-fashioned substance abusing fun any more? The media would have us believe that the younger generations are abstemious little angels that are getting less wasted than ever before. Perhaps this is true statistically, but it’s hard to think that …
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Awful TikTok Trends That Should Never Have Happened

Social media is not a place that is known for bringing out the more intelligent sides of people. Between the endless echo chamber and the desire for clout, it encourages many of its users to go to extremely dumb lengths. While this happens almost everywhere that a lot of us use the internet, it is …
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The FDA is Finally Shutting Down ‘Nyquil Chicken’, TikTok’s Most Disgusting Cooking Trend

Sleepy chicken probably tastes like a coma

Seductive Car Wash Trend is Going Viral and Everyone is Taking It Way Too Far With Their Own Sensual Spin On Things

If you’ve ever taken your car to a self-car wash there are two things that you know for sure:  You should have worn waterproof shoes. There is nothing sexy about being blasted in the face with a fine-spray hose Jessica Simpson in the Dukes of Hazzard is now a highly respected master of arts.  Recently, …
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My Way or the Highway: Viral TikTok Trend Proves that Attitude, Sass, and Life as a Spoiled Brat is Something You’re Born With

Maybe she’s born with it? 

Woman Does Withering Takedown Of Hipster “Twee” Revival

It may be too early to tell how 2022 will turn out yet, but we do have one negative indicator: the early 2010s hipster revival is incoming. Repackaged as «twee» for a trend-hungry Gen Z audience, ukuleles and ModCloth are having a moment in the sun again. However, not everybody is happy with this development. …
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People Call Out All The Aesthetics They Hate With “This Style Sucks” Trend

One of the main principles of art is that it is subjective. One person’s idea of a masterpiece could be another’s idea of artistic hell. No matter what are personal style is, many of us take our aesthetic sensibilities very seriously — so it’s especially upsetting to see something that craps all over them. It …
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