It has never been easier for us to share our woes with the world, and as a result, these confessions have never seemed so cheap. We’re living through the brainrot age, and if you want anybody to pay attention to anything, it needs to be more than mere words on a screen.

One way to up the chances of recognition is to invoke the senses, and not necessarily in a way that an audience is going to enjoy. Such is the logic behind r/kitchencels, the place where losers and loners gather to twin their culinary creations with their abject life circumstances and their despair.