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Lost in the Sauce: Why pre-Internet nostalgia is completely unshakable, as modern media drowns in oversaturation

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There Are Too Many ‘Man-On-the-Street’ Interviewers On Social Media and They’re Only Getting Worse

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It’s Good to Age Out of Stan Culture

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Why ‘Main Character Syndrome’ is Inherently Toxic Despite ‘Delulu’ Influencers Claiming Otherwise

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‘Sad’ Millennial Beige Isn’t Sad at All, Young Adults Are Just Too Easily Influenced

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The creative entrepreneur: Why the process, and not the art, is the reason artists succeed on social media

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‘Yogurt dipped Pringles’: A subreddit encouraging terrible home cooked meals is the last authentic place online to be yourself

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‘Dumbing It Down’: How brainrot memes have satisfied our craving for simplicity through Neanderthalic humor and escapism

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‘This is a recession indicator’: Internet memes are helping society collectively process global crises

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