Harry Potter fans love to praise the worldbuilding of the Wizarding World, and I understand why. Harry Potter is often the first prolonged series of books young readers will consume that takes place in a complex alternate universe. Because of this nostalgia, the worldbuilding gets a bit overhyped by fans who don't wish to see any of the series' flaws. The piece of worldbuilding that most befuddled me when I first read Harry Potter was the “genetic blood protection spell” that Lily allegedly cas…

Is this how you want to spend it? Absolutely.

The only thing worse than getting your massive pile of work interrupted by one of those company-wide hours-long mandatory seminars is having to do the seminar twice. After completing one such seminar about how to spot an email phishing scam, one employee received an email from their “IT director” that included a link, which they foolishly clicked on—the email had been a phishing test. To this employees horror, they had to go through the whole 2-hour seminar all over again. The employee maliciou…

It's long been said that variety is the spice of life. If the sentiment is to believed, then the things we call memes are a spice level 5, like they refuse to serve me at the Thai restaurant. You see, if it exists, there are memes about it. We've covered everything from knitting memes to forklift operator memes , and those two incredibly specific subjects are teeny drops in a Texas-sized, meme-filled bucket. The memes we love are as varied as the people who make them, and if we start thinking a…

It's tough out there

Just stay single

Have you ever heard of the classic Rule 34 ? According to the experts at Know Your Meme, Rule 34 "is an Internet adage in the "Rules of the Internet" list of protocols and conventions which asserts that "if something exists, there is porn of it." We think there should be a similar rule for starter pack memes. While they're incredibly specific, it feels like there's a starter pack meme for pretty much everything. Some starter packs target a kind of person - the douchey tattooed chef who thinks w…

Out of this world

Why are so many young people suddenly talking like weird therapists? There have been countless memes throughout the past couple of years about how strange and unnatural “therapy talk” is transforming the way we talk to our friends. It seemed to all start with the mass misusing of the term “emotional labor." Originally, this phrase referred to the labor customer service workers had to do to present a persistently happy

Living and working on the internet can lead to a sort of jadedness that makes everything a little less interesting and also a little less enjoyable. While I can't pretend to be the world's leading expert on internet culture, I can tell you for sure that I've seen my fair share of memes and weird internet pictures. And, of course, a crap ton of cutesy animal content. The latter of which does not want to die. And honestly, the world is a pretty depressing place, so we understand the demand, even…

When your kids are driving you nuts, take a breath and think of these memes.

Plus: a Twitch streamer does something deeply embarrassing again.

I'm not saying I'm depressed or anything, but a million dollars sure would help in that department

Surprise

It's easy to complain about the state of design these days. It seems like the graphic designers of the world got together to make everything as bland or amorphous as possible. Logos have been stripped down to look as basic as they come, and most graphics, especially of people, resemble abstract art or single-celled organisms more than they do humans. It kind of makes the design world, and media in general, feel a lot more boring. That said, there are definitely some exceptions, and they're not…

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