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Rebecca Jennings

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The endless quest to replace alcohol

18.04.2024 7

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Connections, the most fun (and sometimes frustrating) game on the internet

What do the words “loo,” “condo,” “haw,” “hero” have in common? Unless you’re extremely into ornithology, it’s impressive if you...

26.03.2024 10

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What’s the most fun you’ve ever had spending a tax refund?

20.03.2024 7

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The Mr. Beastification of entertainment

A helicopter drops Mr. Beast and his friends onto the roof of an abandoned hotel, resting on the water’s edge of a Mediterranean resort town....

18.03.2024 5

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Gen Z is officially old enough to feel old. Feel old yet?

I keep seeing people asking the internet, “How old do I look?” Each time, I want to tell them, “No, don’t do that, you’re going to get your...

06.03.2024 9

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Romantic norms are in flux. No wonder everyone’s obsessed with polyamory.

Everyone’s talking about polyamory. You might have read about it, at least if you pay attention to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the...

21.02.2024 6

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What’s behind the power of tiny eyeglasses?

It was all the way back in the spring of 2018 that Mindy Kaling tweeted, in response to the onslaught of hot fashion people wearing a certain kind of...

16.02.2024 6

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Tiktok is full of tryhard slang

Right now, language is exploding on TikTok. It is kind of beautiful until you understand why. With every scroll, new terms compete for space in your...

07.02.2024 30

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Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to.

01.02.2024 30

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The nine-month cruise that took over TikTok

On December 10, the Serenade of the Seas departed the Miami harbor. It is not a normal cruise: On board were hundreds of passengers who, for the...

24.01.2024 6

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There’s something icky about performative cleanliness

In November, a woman put her prepackaged Christmas tree in the tub and washed it. “Unpopular opinion: You need to clean your Christmas tree,” she...

10.01.2024 10

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TikTok isn’t creating false support for Palestine. It’s just reflecting what’s already there.

For the past month, TikTok has tried to assure business leaders, influencers, and Jewish organizations that it isn’t promoting anti-Israel or...

13.12.2023 10

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Why is dating advice on TikTok so sexist — and so bleak?

29.11.2023 3

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Why is dating advice on TikTok so sexist — and so bleak?

Everyone has someone on the internet whose content they consume despite disagreeing with pretty much everything that person has to say. Some refer to...

29.11.2023 10

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The lie of “deinfluencing”

14.11.2023 8

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Let Britney Spears be weird

26.10.2023 2

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Noah Kahan is bringing back “stomp clap hey” music. It’s better now.

Two years ago, in a post bemoaning a certain style of Obama-era music made by men who used mustache wax and played the banjo, someone on Twitter...

18.10.2023 10

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You gotta just ignore annoying tweets

Two weeks ago, I saw a tweet that was written, I believe, with the sole purpose of annoying me. It wasn’t just a bad take; there are a lot of those...

04.10.2023 2

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How the fight between tech founders and influencers shaped the internet

The story of the internet is the story of men pouring money into platforms they don’t understand — and no one understands this better than Taylor...

27.09.2023 2

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Joe Jonas — and the celebrity PR machine — isn’t fooling us anymore

In the year of the celebrity breakup — Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Reese Witherspoon, and Chelsea Handler have all announced splits in the past...

13.09.2023 2

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