Time and place

Also, Lizzo plunges into the cancellation meme cycle.

Does she have no shame?

There seem to be very few good samaritans who will intervene in a precarious situation. There is actually a psychological explanation for this called The Bystander Effect . According to Wikipedia, the bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present. People feel like because there are other people around, they will intervene, and they themselves don't have to do anyt…

It just keeps getting weirder

Filmmaking is genetic

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…

Cringe or not cringe?

So freaky

Listen, I know that TikTok might appear to be the work of pure evil for the uninitiated. After all, any social media platform primarily populated by teenagers is bound to include some insane hot takes that possibly should've never seen the light of day. I do think that young people, particularly minors on TikTok, need to learn that it's okay not to share graphic and insanely personal details about their lives online. In fact, I might even highly recommend they not do that. Your middle school co…

"Does a loved one keep threatening to get bangs, but you don't know how to tell them that they shouldn't? Send them this helpful video..."

“How can something so annoying be turned into something so epic and beautiful??”

“I wouldn’t even be mad about losing money, that’s the funniest thing ever.”

The lines between reality and fiction are becoming more blurred as newfangled technology rears its head. I remember when deepfakes first came out, and seeing merely experimental videos utilizing that technology was frightening. Deepfakes essentially marked the beginning of an era of the internet where we knew that anyone, anything they said, and anything they did could be completely manufactured and fake. It was only a matter of time before deepfake or fully virtual celebrities emerged. The mos…

That reverse culture-shock though

Apparently, we've all been underestimating babies' grip strength