The Los Angeles Times once dubbed Taylor Swift “patient zero for emotional contagion,” a nod to how a single stadium camera cut of her cheering for Travis Kelce sent the internet into a spiral of theories, timelines, and stakeouts. It turned out the label stuck because now, her upcoming single carried the same name. Swift […]
Somewhere between the rise of TikTok and the flood of “get ready with me” tutorials, posing a threat to an entire generation to lose their ability to be bad at something in public as “cringe culture” built the wall. Once just a verb for physical discomfort or embarrassment, “cringe” became a slang term for anything […]
A clip from DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film ‘Forgotten Island’ went viral online, with Filipino viewers calling out just how “aggressively Filipino” one particular scene was, and the internet could not stop pointing out the details. The scene packed in a laundry list of hyper-specific, deeply relatable Pinoy household staples: a Jesus portrait on the wall, […]