fads and trends
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The Best (and Cheapest) Ways to Add a Little ‘Cottagecore’ Style to Your Home
Simple, charming, and romantic cottagecore style is a design aesthetic that embraces country living on a sustainable scale. Advocates of the style purport that it’s not just a style, but a way of life. Embracing handcrafted decor and giving a nod to traditional looks, cottagecore interior design lends itself easily to DIY projects because of…
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11 Animal Accounts We All Should Be Following on Social Media
This week we mourn the passing of Pot Roast, a beloved cat who millions of TikTok users were lucky enough to have grace their algorithms in recent years. While we collectively grieve the loss of this furry icon across social media, we can cheer ourselves up by turning to the many other online animals making…
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The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide To Kid Culture: What is Beaning?
This week is all about young people gone bad. Kids out there are straight delinquents. They’re throwing baked beans around, vandalizing school bathrooms, and pointing out ontological inconsistencies. Stop disrespecting my assumptions about reality, ya punks!
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You Should Let the BookTok Teens Find Your Next Read
TikTok is a creator’s paradise, and these days, more than just fashion influencers and aspiring comedians are clogging the platform. A new community has blossomed on the app, and it’s made up of users, many of them teens, plugging books — a pretty unlikely product, as far as social media boosterism goes.