Are Tastemakers the New Influencers?
What’s the point of posting a song you like on your Instagram Story? Is it simply a mindless act of self-expression, or are you secretly hoping for someone to swipe…
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Vy Nguyen
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Uninspired, Glum, Hopeless? Look No Further Than Modern Love
I fear that storytelling, in the most traditional sense, is dying. Perhaps it’s because I’ve grown up, or because I now devote my time to other types of entertainment, or…
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TikTok and the Never-Ending Perpetuation of Thrifted Glam
Up until about three weeks ago, I was a staunch TikTok skeptic. I refused to download the app, citing it as a mega-waste of time and something that I didn’t…
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Coastal Supremacy Is Classist (And a Little Racist)
When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, a not-so-uncommon conversation in my Northern California town was whether or not California should secede from the Union. “We’d have the ninth highest…
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The Top 15 Horniest Movies For Your Viewing Pleasure
In the past five months of isolation, lockdown, and touch starvation, many of us have turned to movies for a comforting reminder of the world as it once was. Whether…
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How Critics Created the Film Bro
You know him, you don’t like him very much, and you’ve zoned out while he explained the “genius” of his favorite director to you: the Film Bro. His room is…
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Relearning Faith in Quarantine Through Facebook Mass
Before Easter Sunday, the television in my den was only for entertainment. It was the same for the TV in my parents’ room, where I spent the summers of my…
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