Software packaging from the 1990s had this very breezy clip art style that I rarely see imitated anywhere, even during the vaporwave era. Itโs hard to describe, not quite โglobal coffeehouseโ but close.
People who donโt know anything eat this up every time and itโs extremely Reddit. Usually they show students in Kabul or Tehran in the โ70s but Syria has had a secular central government the whole time, what โIslamic invasionโ are they talking about?
These two should link up. They are the last ones holding it down for two classic millennial archetypes destroyed by New York City podcast hypnosis after 2016
I would say an answer nobody else said: Workaholics. It embodied the vibe of a certain type of early-mid 20s guy during that particular time period. Probably could have kept going but it would have gotten depressing if they got older and kept doing the same thing
If you donโt understand calculus and differential equations , you should give up trading
This is what it takes to generate proprietary trading signals to live luxurious life
There is no substitute for hard work
A fat Greek guy leaves his role as second mic on a niche comedy podcast and it somehow sets off a chain of dominos that directly affects the biggest concert tour in the world and the results of the NFL season
Pop punk/emo literally gave way to the end of 2000s myspace culture, and unlike any song by say, The White Stripes, EVERYONE knows Shake It by Metro Station, or This Ain't a Scene by Fall Out Boy, or whatever Paramore song. Nowadays you even have "emo rap" like Juice Wrld et al.
I honestly love how all the politicians are just totally done with any facade of "propriety" and the farty West Wing style pomp around the legislative branch. We're going back to how it was in the 19th century when most of them were open drunks and gamblers
Saw something about a 28 year old Dutch woman who is getting euthanized over autism and BPD. The psychiatrists told her there was nothing they could do to help. Incredibly bleak, is this just what theyโre gonna do from now on?
I thought that millennials taking hold of animation would lead to really cool trippy stuff like iterating on old school Adult Swim but instead itโs just a bunch of movies and shows about anthropomorphic office supplies talking about generational traumaโฆwhat happened
there's gonna be a shortage, there's going to be a mold shortage. there's going to be a global mold shortage. this article's timing, and the vast amount of contradictions in nutrition that we already know about, can make us deductively reason there's gonna be black mold shortage.
Aaron Swartz was the true once in a generation genius that all these tech bloviators in the decade since wish they were, he did more good by the age of 26 than 100 of them combined will in a lifetime
All else aside, I predict that the lithium / rare-earth metals usage of disposable vapes will be one of those things people will be talking a lot about in the next 2 years or so
One of the most bizarre, macabre spectacles Iโve ever seen was probably the deepfake of the dead Parkland kid telling people to vote. I still think about it occasionally
This is like the Beavis & Butthead episode where they have to sell candy bars for a fundraiser and just sell them all to each other by passing the same dollar back and forth. A critical piece of media for understanding 21st century economy
#1909
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Have to admire the Hasidim on some level for just literally carving out their own fiefdom with their own rules and everything right in the middle of one of the most important cities in the world
Alcoholism is such a roll of the dice. Steve Harwell dies at 56 after over a decade of prolonged health issues but Winston Churchill was putting away bottles of gin and champagne every day and lived until 90
Acute liver failure, also known as fulminant hepatic failure, is a rare but life-threatening condition in which the liver loses function, that impacts about 2,000 Americans each year.
Never understood what exactly people think 4chan is. A lot of the memes on there are very insular. The main one that has prevailed since 2017 is just posting increasingly Dadaist variations on the Sneedโs Feed & Seed joke from The Simpsons
Infinite Jest absolutely got a half-court shot calling it on the video filters and how people would react to them emotionally, decades in advance. Credit where credit is due
2017: Chapo must denounce Nick Mullen
2023: Taylor Swift must denounce Nick Mullen
At this rate the next presidential debates will have questions about Sam Hyde, Milady, Ray Peat. Biden will use the phrase โHitler particlesโ
I still feel like Iโm losing my mind that the 2017 Cum Town discourse has made it all the way to the biggest pop star in the world and fans are starting to turn on her because of it
@LegoRacers2
TikTok and the financialization of fun (meme coins, meme stocks, sports betting). The 2020s have totally ripped off the facade of refinement that defined much of the 2010s. Everything consumer-facing is just openly kind of chintzy and shoddy and grift-y now
@laserboat999
My theory is that he got a bad TBI in the car accident that killed his mom and sister when he was like 2, that can cause severe impulse control issues for sure
The dark matter holding each of Twitter, 4chan, and Reddit together is porn. A massive proportion of the content driving traffic on all these sites is just all kinds of pornography and itโs never mentioned when they are discussed as incubators of The Discourse
Early 20s college student male getting drunk, falling in a body of water, and drowning is a shockingly common type of โdeath by misadventureโ. See the โsmiley face killerโ theory
Pajama Boy was just a stock photo used for the Obamacare exchange and had such a massive psychic impact on conservatives itโs incredible. Look at any right-leaning publication or editorials from 2014 and they will reference him or Lena Dunham as a synecdoche for millennials
Kids today could never understand how just a decade ago there was a TV commercial where a camel said โhump dayyyeee!โ and every human on earth saw it and said โhump dayyyeee!โ To each other every Wednesday for the next 3-5 years
They had a whole FX/Hulu special announcing their โdecisionโ on who to endorse. Then they split the difference on two candidates that didnโt come close. A bizarre ivory tower spectacle
Press who have attended
@NYCSanitation
events at our salt sheds know you're not allowed to stand on the salt. You can fall in and literally die. It's extremely dangerous and not funny.
Have to admire the Hasidim on some level for just literally carving out their own fiefdom with their own rules and everything right in the middle of one of the most important cities in the world
Itโs funny how every celebrity divorce or breakup now leads to a propaganda war using PR techniques that until 15 years ago were only known to nation-state level actors
Sources tell TMZ that Joe Jonas filed for divorce after allegedly catching Sophie Turner doing or saying something on a ring camera:
โJoe had access to a ring cam that he said captured Sophie saying and/or doing something that made him realize the marriage was over.โ
Iโve talked about the Peter Thiel e-girl generator but I want to know where the vats are that are growing all the ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐บ๐ฆ policy twinks and who is paying for them
Wow another mid-twenties mild lowkey reactionary yuppie in the big city who says โyearningโ a lot? No kidding? Sure, yeah, show me like 200 more accounts like that
@selina_dedalus
He was at the State of the Union since he still had floor privileges, they made a big deal out of it in the broadcast on whatever channel I had it on
Wait until you hear that there is a whole place where thereโs millions of people who would gladly identify with all of this. Itโs called โthe Washington DC metropolitan areaโ
Itโs so weird that the October 7th attack footage is treated as this exclusive event you have to be invited to watch and canโt actually talk that much about. Whereas to see the Israeli atrocities you just have to open up this app and there it all is
I will die on the hill that The Simpsons is only โuniversalโ to Gen Xers and older Millennials. Anyone under 35 probably watched South Park and Family Guy instead
I still feel like Iโm losing my mind that the 2017 Cum Town discourse has made it all the way to the biggest pop star in the world and fans are starting to turn on her because of it