Can we talk about the problematic mental age gap between these two and how Taylor might actually be grooming Travis?
Travis has multiple head injuries and suffers from CTE leading to the huge mental age gap which make him vulnerable.
People are like "ugh I'm leaving Twitter" but I just saw a viral thread where someone argued it's classist to know how to boil an egg. You can't put a price on this, you'll have to drag me out
A good thing to remember whenever there's a discussion of reading habits is that the book publishing industry is keenly aware from sales that men don't actually read
I’ve never been able to do yoga because any move that puts weight on my wrist is incredibly painful. Then, yesterday I was served this Reel and…. it fixed it???? I’m literally cured… by Instagram????
I’ve been kicked off a lot of platforms: Friendster, MySpace (a few times), FourSquare, Tinder, and been suspended here at least twice in the past. But it still brings me a smile to have completely destroyed the entire Spaces functionality
Regional accents are close to extinction within this generation, when we find a young specimen in the wild it's like spotting a bald eagle in central park
A neighbor in NE Philly describes what it was like to wake up to the confusion just outside his door after a portion of I-95 collapsed just a few blocks from him.
I just remembered I once made an account on Twitter I claimed was a "crush bot" and if you DMd it your crush, and that person also did, it would tell both of you. But it wasn't a bot, it was just me reading the DMs.
My strong opinion is that you're allowed to text a group chat any time of day/night; it's their personal responsibility to put their phones on silent at 2am
It seems every high school had some weird/bad incident of an inappropriate teacher (sometimes criminally so). Or something “off” - a teacher married a former student etc…. This is so pervasive it’s a TikTok meme:
Nothing I love more than stumbling into niche drama I have no business being in, today it’s learning that everyone in the Air Force dreads being assigned to a base called Minot (I had to google, it’s in North Dakota)
Hmm next time I declare “Twitter is back” because of a funny tweet I should do a quick scan to see if the owner of this site just said something crazy about Hitler in the last hour
Today is the last day for BuzzFeed News, the site will freeze and archive tonight (old articles won't delete, don't worry). When we found out we were shutting down 2 weeks ago, I assigned myself one last incredibly stupid thing.....
The Momo panic works bc it taps into parents’ guilt that the demands of modern parenting require sometimes just letting kids watch YouTube videos on the phone. The real Momo is the lack of social services in the US like paid maternity leave/affordable childcare.
When I saw a TikTok showing how Chuck E. Cheese still runs off floppy disks for the animatronics, I thought this would be a fun story. Surprisingly, I have never experienced such extreme pushback from a PR dept as I did from the pizza mouse company.
"Blippi" is a YouTube star for toddlers who gets ~400Mviews/month, toddlers are OBSESSED with him.
But in 2013, he made a version of the Harlem Shake meme where he literally projectile shat onto his nude friend. My story:
Forgive me for being weepy but I want to talk about what BuzzFeed layoffs mean not just to ~the state of journalism~ but to the internet at large. A bunch of people were laid off (and more to come! Fuck!) who quite literally created and shaped the internet as we know it today.
Just remember: Kate won't see your tweets about how you feel bad about those jokes, but your friends who run typically conniving and occasionally disastrous PR operations on behalf of monarchies will.
Elon personally banned
@MattBinder
over Elon J*t stuff, then shut down all of Spaces just to stop Matt when he was able to still log in, and now forced free Blue on him. Imagine the palatial estate Matt lives in Elon’s mind rent free
Before they were frequent profile subjects, that pro-natalist elite eugenicist couple were both big time Redditors. Here’s the wife showing off the anime body pillow of herself she got custom made for her husband
A good fake trend piece would be that teens are into voicemail now.
“I love that I can leave this recording of a message… to my friends,” said Hailey, 16.
“It’s a competition to make the coolest outgoing voicemail message at my school,” said Dylan, 17
The stats here on Klarna/Afterpay are horrifying… 73% of Gen Z purchases are for fashion, 43% of them miss a payment. There’s basically a subprime loan crisis bubbling for Shein
@thejasonhowell
I used to lie in bed and Check In to all the places in like a 4 block radius until I became the mayor of all of them. People could make up their own locations, so a guy down the block made his apartment a place and I kept stealing his mayorship of his own apt
To the men reply to inform me they, actually, read: please know you are seen and you are valid.
The point is OP was directing hysteria about young women reading novels like it’s 1810. (Chic, honestly)
Patagonia will only sell bulk orders of custom logo vests to mission driving companies like B-Corps or companies who pledge to donate to environmental causes. No more evil hedge funds or tech startups!
SCOOP: Clickhole was just bought out from G/O Media by Cards Against Humanity in an all-cash deal. Clickhole will become majority employee-owned, which financial support from CAH.
Everyone was wary of the menswear guy when he first blew up because we have never seen someone who got popular on this platform quickly and didn't do a heel turn. The fact that he continues to deliver reliably good content is something we may never see again in this lifetime.
The Dow plummets, the finance world is reeling, bankers crying at their desks .... because Patagonia has banned sales of logo fleece vests to finance companies
Today is the last day of BuzzFeed News. I wanted the last word on it to be from the people who worked there. Here's the final post, the Oral History of BuzzFeed News:
Someone told me that the reason suspended accounts can still join Spaces is because that feature is built on the old Periscope backend, and if an account is old enough to predate Periscope it treats it like a separate account from Twitter. Makes sense!
Scoop: the bug that some Elon noticed that makes it so people can't see your tweets doesn't get fixed if you make your account private. You have to fully delete the account and then restart it. Story coming soon......
"Grilling is bad" is such an amazing trollbait opinion I'm literally nauseous with jealousy. I've spent my career on bad ideas, and now I'm Salieri hearing Requiem for first time, just weeping.
I want to apologize to the PayPig and FinDom community, it has come to my attention that there was a vibrant
#findom
Spaces culture and this has caused a disruption in both business and pleasure. I am certain Spaces will return soon, stay strong paypigs
I will read anything and everything about celebrity veneers. It’s such a unique body horror: the trade off of beautiful teeth now but you’ll probably need dentures at 55
Facebook is making camera glasses. They have an LED warning light so that bystanders know you are taking a video.
I taped it over.
A FB exec told me this is a violation of the terms of service of the glasses (oops)
Something I’ve been thinking a lot is how much of the pre-2010 internet has been totally obliterated during this decade. Photos deleted, social profiles gone forever, old sites and blogs just wiped out.
My Twitter was locked for 10 days after the alt right found an "anti-white" tweet I made in 2011. I had ~a lot of time~ to think about what it means for Twitter that trolls are able to efficiently exploit the rules for bad faith brigading.
The Bored Ape Yacht Club is the biggest NFT group (the ones Paris Hilton and Gwyneth Paltrow own). Reported the company is raising money at a $5B valuation. But the founders are all pseudonymous. Which is, confusing. My story:
lol apparently Jesse Plemons hurt his knee before filming Killers of the Flower Moon and almost had to drop out it bc producers were like “sorry, Deniro already is doing a limp thing. Limp is taken”.
Bored Ape Yacht Club finally announced a video game…. It’s about searching through a sewer for monkey poop and has an incredibly complicated leaderboard system. I’m literally wheezing
Marveling at the perseverance and triumph of the novelty New Years glasses industry, who pushed through after 2009 when it seemed all hope was lost. Humbled and inspired.
huh, I wonder if there could be a person behind a company that created radically new business and editorial incentives for some of the big changes to magazine journalism in the last, say 15 years
This is now an Edie McClurg stan account. Character actor queen and voiceover legend. Please reply with your favorite Edie moments
#EdieCrew
#McClurgglers