It's mighty strange

Oh no

A lawless land

It's rough out there

Move fast and break things

Terrible

A strange place

It's been years since I actually used Quora. My profile photo features my ex-boyfriend from back in 2013, and the account is tied to my most spam-filled email address. Despite this, I regularly get emails from them featuring questions about George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, as well as queries about living with narcissists. Spoiler alert: Dude from the profile pic happens to be one. While the emails don't really prompt me to peruse the question-and-answer website, sometimes ther…

Please no

Someone's gotta help them reincarnate

Crazy times

Oh boy

We should all know less about each other. This mantra has popped up on Twitter recently, often in response to people sharing graphic personal details online, particularly on TikTok. With the advent of social media, we have become conditioned to share so much of our lives with strangers. We're not just showing the shiny and cool parts of our lives with strangers: we're sharing everything! We post a picture every day because an app told us to “be real.” We share our traumas on TikTok because thos…

What is happening

Anyone who's been on TikTok in the past four years knows that it's a deep dark place. I joined the app in the fall of 2019 and could feel it affecting my brain chemistry at an astronomical rate. It felt like one of the few uncensored social media sites back then. What rattled me the most was how cruel and insane TikTok comments were. People, primarily kids, were saying horrible things to people on an unprecedented scale. Since then, TikTok has only grown bigger. The worst and best part about Ti…

These people are nuts