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NO LONGER A BIT LMAO the media layoffs got your girl 🫠
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working at techcrunch was quite literally the dream job! here's a roundup of my most banger articles that i've written over the last year
i spent ten minutes explaining the selena/hailey drama to my very ill bf and at the end of it he said "i thought hailey beiber was justin beiber's sister"
i’m obsessed with soft launch boyfriend reveal culture. is that a man’e sleeve in ur mirror selfie?? who’s drinking that second beer in your photo dump?? keep the people guessing!!!
explaining the emu drama over the last week like no babe there are two tiktok emu girls. the cool one has the mean emu. the racist one is the one who kept kissing her emu after the rest of her farm birds got bird flu. here's the twist he didn't even have bird flu, it was stress.
the way quiet quitting, which is a misnomer for maintaining firm boundaries at work for a healthier personal life, is presented as a radical concept is so bleak to me
there's this person on tiktok kicking a rock every day until it turns into a sphere, and it's actually working. they've been doing this for 19 days straight now. i am so invested in this saga.
no actually i'm bored of boyfriend soft launches. i think the most powerful posting you can do is surprise announcing a marriage that happened years ago. a face reveal that's actually a five year anniversary post. baby pics with zero context. i want to see more group chat fodder.
if someone said "i love you in every universe" to me it would be an instant ick, but why did "in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you" make me burst into tears
i'm a simple lady if i see a 93 minute youtube video called "the rise and fall of..." or "everything wrong with..." or "the evolution of..." i will sit through the entire thing
you're laughing. a horde of tech bros were going to take shrooms for the first time and finally experience empathy, but they got trench foot instead. and you're laughing
bon appétit went from the most beloved youtube channel of quarantine to a crumbling mess so fast when they simply could have agreed to pay their BIPOC staff a fair wage
the last of us really said hey what if we write a queer love story where the conflict doesn't revolve around violent homophobia, but instead explores the crushing prospect of growing old without your partner. what then huh
i think a lot about how stephanie meyer wrote a whole trilogy of gerard way fanfiction and then mcr not only declined to write a song for the twilight movies but then wrote a whole song about declining to write a song for the twilight movies. stephanie must've been SICK. i'd cry
missouri's trans snitch line is down after people spammed it with smut fics, rambling anecdotes, and the bee movie script
the attorney general's press secretary said "far left activists" are "resorting to trying to hack our system"
wild that "i can't stop you putting roots in my dreamland, my house of stone, your ivy grows and now i'm covered in you" and "sometimes i feel like everybody is a sexy baby" came from the same mind
south koreans: squid game was hard to watch because it depicts the very real struggle of surviving under capitalism
american youtubers: ok but what if we did it for real
people are joking about refreshing gabbie hanna's tiktok so they can "keep up" with her videos while she goes through a public mental health crisis. a random guy entered her home, and is now talking about her on live with 16k viewers. all of this is so voyeuristic and gross.
the apologies from johnny depp supporters feel hollow and performative, but there's something especially vile about creators who went viral for mocking amber heard now pivoting to jokes about the unsealed documents and "karma." there's zero acknowledgement of their past stances.
no babe even though he doesn't have bird flu a lot of people are still mad at the racist emu girl for being racist and for kissing a possibly sick bird. no yeah a bunch of bird experts told her not to get close like that but she refused to wear a mask because it scared the emu
Bill de Blasio, the former New York City mayor, and Chirlane McCray are separating. They are not planning to divorce, they said, but will date other people and continue to share the Park Slope townhouse.
no joke living through covid made people worse at personal hygiene. grown adults refuse to cover their cough. the influencers at paris fashion week are going to bring those french bedbugs to la & ny & every other major city because quarantining & deep cleaning is too inconvenient
you're in his DMs, i have no idea who's in mine. i am avoiding even looking at my inbox because i'm overwhelmed by the expectation to be constantly available for social interaction
So a bunch of you are not Terminally Online which is fine. I'm kind of jealous if I'm honest. Lemme catch you up.
A lesbian hobby farmer in Florida owns an emu and went viral (hahaha) for him pecking the camera while she tried to record videos for TikTok.
starting and ending work at the hours you're supposed to isn't doing the bare minimum!! doing the tasks you were hired to do instead of taking on additional ones that you won't be paid for isn't doing the bare minimum!!
honestly if i grew up with generational wealth i just know i'd be a horse girl. like i'd never bother being a nepo baby because i'd be offline hanging out with my horse. if you had that much money and security why would you want to work. you could be galloping free somewhere
i think the dress was lazy but that’s more on the designer who invited aoc to wear it. project runway enthusiasts know there are more creative ways to portray class inequality on a gown. i want to see like, a skirt that’s crystal waterfall on fire to criticize trickle down econ
barbie is a retelling of the creation myth, in which eve (barbie) leaves the garden of eden (barbieland) after consuming the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil (birkenstocks). instead of being cast out, eve willingly embarks on a journey of self actualization. in this essay
i have been harassed and threatened on public transit. i have been in situations where i felt unsafe. you know what i didn't do? commit murder! we can have nuanced conversations about commuter safety without jumping to killing people!
instead of dunking on a young person mourning the loss of their free time, maybe we should talk about how bleak it is that we've accepted constantly working over a social life and hobbies and simple pleasures? i swear some of you just relish in your own misery and it's so boring
if you feel so entitled to a creator's personal life and attention that you can't differentiate between financial abuse and "scamming fans," it's time to log off & reevaluate how you interact with women
megan thee stallion's "thot shit" follows the formula for viral tiktok dancing, but fed up with white users profiting off their labor, Black creators are on "strike" from choreographing any dance trends to what could be the song of the summer
we had "cold was the steel of my axe to grind, for the boys that broke my heart" and we got drawing your eyeliner sharp enough to kill a man. what in the 2013 tumblr
if you're that committed to your workplace, fine! but it shouldn't be such a personal affront that other people aren't particularly loyal to a company that doesn't pay them to go "above and beyond"
"i love you in every universe" it somehow tries too hard and still doesn't do enough
"in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you" rip me apart and put me back together. swooning.
it is baffling to me that lawmakers continue to set up snitch forms, given the history of relentless shitposting as a form of protest. this is the third one in three years!
Something interesting I've noticed teaching is Gen Z just does not use Microsoft Word, period. When you ask them to submit .doc files they're all converting them from Google Docs or Pages.
turning red, a film about a 13 year old ashamed over fantasizing about her crush because of her overbearing family, is a tad limiting in its scope for me, who at 13 had my first panic attack because i thought i left my zutara-twilight crossover fic open on the family computer
at vidcon last week I talked to
@tanamongeau
about maintaining relationships while dealing with constant public scrutiny, how much she's grown since tanacon, and why she tries to be as realistic as possible on camera, even if it's messy. it's a READ.