As an aging millennial, it can be tough to keep up with current slang, despite spending roughly 70% of my waking hours on Twitter and TikTok. Even with my relative lack of literacy in this area, there are certain “hip” terms that make perfect sense to me and have unforgivingly entrenched themselves in my vocabulary. A prime example of this would be “The Ick." While describing something as “icky” isn't exactly a new concept, “The Ick” refers to something more specific: an instant kind of repulsi…

If there's one thing I hate about Twitter, it's the people who use it . I'm not saying this to be a hater. Still, longtime Twitter users like myself will recognize a type of defensive rhetoric unique to Twitter users that makes the experience of using the bird app kind of miserable. They will always assume the worst about a situation and respond accordingly. They act like everyone is the enemy who needs to get told off by their righteous army. I don't know why Twitter is like this, but if I had…

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