The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 15, 2023)

Just like the avocado toast addicted millennials that came before them, Gen Z have faced a lot of criticism from the older generations. They’re entitled, they’re prudes, they don’t know how to have fun outside, and they’re always on that blasted TikTok.  The clock app is going to be one of those things that comes …
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Dunkin’ Afficionados React to New Dunkin’ Spiked Alcoholic Iced Coffee and Tea

When beverage companies ask the question «what if we combined caffeine and alcohol?» the results are typically chaotic. There is a certain genre of hard-partying American millennial who still mourns the loss of original recipe Four Loko, and don’t even think about touching Buckfast unless you want to find out why Scotland has the strictest …
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Fitness Influencer Who Had Anti-Bloating Pill Wedding Annoys Internet Again With Post-Wedding «Wellness Recovery Day»

One thing that most people can agree on about weddings is that they aren’t supposed to be a healthy event. Aside from celebrating the marriage, excess is what they’re all about. This is part of the reason that when an influencer shared her supposedly health-conscious wedding a while ago, the internet was not too impressed.  …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 8, 2023)

With all these screen-addled Zoomers whipping out their phones for TikTok breaks in the movie theater, it’s fair to say that the short form video app has completely changed the landscape of the culture that we live in. All it has done is create an endless TV channel with much lower production values than cable, …
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Interfering Mom Demands to Try on Future Daughter in Law’s Wedding Dress, Doesn’t Understand Why She’s Upset

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I don’t understand the big furore around weddings. Surely, the quality of the marriage is a lot more important than the day itself.  That being said, I do think that it is important to respect other peoples’ boundaries. No matter what you feel about somebody’s special …
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17-Year-Old Bakery Worker Learns of Friend’s Passing Before Shift, Cruel Manager Refuses to Give Her Leave

One of the most traumatizing experiences at work is being visibly upset on the job. It’s happened to most of us at some point, for reasons both big and small. Bad news can be a pretty common culprit, and having to put on your moneymaking face while reacting to something like a death is nothing …
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Comically Greedy People Who Think Beggars Can Be Choosers

I like to believe that most people are good deep down, but there are plenty of entitled people out there who shamelessly act like the world revolves around them. Those people test my faith in humanity every day, and scrolling through subreddits like r/choosingbeggars certainly doesn’t help. If you’re in the mood to be outraged, …
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People Lament the Toxic Parenting of Self-Professed ‘Boy Moms’

Being a great parent is not an easy job. However, avoiding being an awful one should be simple enough. Sadly, a lot of people who become moms and dads don’t seem to recognize this. There are certain topics that many of the procreating population can’t help but be strange about, and one of these is …
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The Most Cringeworthy Dating App Encounters This Week (June 2, 2023)

Being in love might (sometimes) feel effortless, but trying to find it is anything but. Those people who have a meet cute with their soulmate in a random coffee shop when they’re 19 are a genuine rarity.  Wattpad fiction isn’t here to reflect real life, and that’s why it focuses on scenarios like these, rather …
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Job Seekers Lament the Most Outlandish Job Suggestions Indeed Recommended to Them

I was freshly 16 when I got my first paid job. Devoid of professional contacts and with the bare minimum of qualifications, I had no choice but to brave one of the scariest places on the internet: the part time listings on Indeed.  This infamous place bills itself as ‘The #1 job site worldwide’, and …
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