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He should lighten up

It's funny how certain words start to lose their meaning when they become popular in everyday usage. Words like “savage,” “insane,” and “psychotic” are regularly used to describe things that are, in fact, incredibly normal. It's definitely not savage to roast a friend in the group chat, it's not insane to send a text to your ex, and it's certainly not psychotic to finish a bag of Doritos. The word “unhinged” is veering pretty close to the same status. Once women on TikTok describe their ordinar…

I still can't remember which is which

The pregnancy hormones are not messing around

Adulting is hard

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Potty training is an especially stressful part of parenting. You have to tell your kids over and over to communicate with you about when they have to go to the bathroom, and you have to learn how to gauge when they're on the brink of a full-tilt emergency. Even though it's hard at first, you don't have to worry about changing diapers and wiping bottoms anymore once it's done. Some kids take a while to catch onto the whole toilet thing, but when you're a parent, there's a ticking time bomb forci…

Cringe is a wonderfully fun and meanspirited concept. But it really is what the internet is all about; the concentrated bullying of one or more individuals. Now, I’m not much of the bullying type. But I’d be lying if I said I haven’t partaken in cringe content. I’d go as far as to say I’ve been actively consuming cringe since seventh grade. Ironic, because I was extremely cringe even by middle school standards. And I’m still cringe today! For me, cringe content needs to be in a specific enough…

Everyone deserves a treat

Do you remember a time before air conditioners? I do. Well, I remember a time before I was acquainted with them. Living in both New York City and St. Louis can be brutal. The mugginess, the heat, the stickiness and the crankiness that come with them. Back in the day, all we had was a whirring fan, popsicles and cold showers to keep us cool. My mom would put ice cubes in sandwich bags and toss them to our little whining hands, a brief respite from melting in our living room. Eventually, my paren…

It’s crazy that the psychological definition of a meme is “a unit of practice or belief through which a society or culture evolves and passes from one generation (or even one person) to the next.” So essentially, memes are building blocks of culture. Weird to think about, right? Remember that next time you laugh at an advice animal meme. You are participating in culture. Neat. Obviously, I’m no psychologist. I learned what I just explained in Psych 101. I write about memes for a living, so don’…

April is currently around the corner, which means that everyone's favorite marijuana-based holiday is around the corner as well. Here in New York City, the “yerba" has been legalized, which means 4/20/2023 is going to be very, very interesting. While “exotic” smoke shops have been popping up faster than a thirteen-year-old's pimples, most of them are operating without any legality. In fact, New York is giving licensing priority to charities and people who have been unfairly persecuted for minor…

The two generations who will get the last laugh as the world ends.

Though it's undeniable that video game graphics are advancing rapidly, lore is getting richer with the growing popularity of open world games, and it's becoming more common for big publishers to hire movie stars to play characters or appear as NPCs, that doesn't mean “video game logic” isn't any less absurd. At the end of the day, video games aren't movies, and they certainly aren't real life, and when we turn on any video game, we have to suspend our disbelief quite a bit. But so what if punch…

Unpopular opinion: Redbull is the perfect mixer