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american politics
Celebrities can’t be candid: Chappell Roan’s refusal to endorse
“I will stand up for what’s right and what I believe in,” Roan followed up in her Sept. 24 TikTok, “it’s always at the forefront of my project.”
jazz
Modern Jazz and Laufey’s permanent mark
"Bewitched" personifies love and heartbreak, comprised of soft melodies primed for slow dancing in a living room, or studying in a ritzy classical library.
Celebrity
“Celebrity Skin,” celebrity mind: The rise and reign of Doja Cat
To be a celebrity in the public light isn’t to fully exist as yourself: it’s to put on a character. We may not truly know Doja Cat, and we might never.
spotify
Spotify Wrapped has shifted the way we talk music
Spotify Wrapped may be the only thing that keeps me going, just to see if I will ever break free from the chokehold sad indie girls seem to have on me.
art
Chris Samnee proves to us once again why he should draw the Batman comics
Don’t know where to start looking from years worth of Batobers? Here are some of my favorite pieces from the years of Batobers.
Halloween
AAAH!BBA has reached its final form: the Hee Bee Bee Gees
The whole spectacle can really only be described as a theater kid fever dream, but it is delightfully campy and well-produced.
minecraft
Folks, Dream Minecraft is really just some guy
There is something to the reminder that faceless content creators are real people, and I don’t know if people have latched onto that as much as they should.
smartphones
The rise and fall of the BlackBerry dynasty
The true main appeal of the BlackBerry phones to teenagers, like anything else, was that their friends had one. Even as a pre-teen myself, I had this constant fear of missing out on joining friend groups and conversations that only took place on the coveted and exclusive BBM.
emo
Emo to e-boy: the evolution of a subculture
The e-kid subculture started in 2018, and quickly rose to popularity following the worldwide release of TikTok in the same year.
Social media
COVID-19 inspires content renaissance on UR student meme pages
This meme renaissance, which took shape in hundreds of student-created images, is still ongoing, as new posts are being churned out every day.
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