Monday, 9 December 2019
Friday, 6 December 2019
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Dads are ruining (improving) people's Spotify Wrapped data with their dad music
Spotify Premium isn't free, so it makes sense that family members share accounts. When it's Spotify Wrapped season, though, giving Dad free rein on your account can wreak havoc on your Top Songs list.
As people post screenshots of their Wrapped data this week, the folks who share their account with Dad are adding extremely funny qualifiers to their tweets. No, they did not listen to Lamb of God for 18 hours. The person who did that was, in fact, their father.
The trend is a funny side effect of Wrapped's cultural clout in recent years. The annual rollout has transformed from a fun activity that pops up every December to an earnestly felt measure of one's experiences. If your dad's affecting your Wrapped lists — even if you don't actually care — you gotta bring it up. Can't muddy the waters of your online personality! (I'm not exempt from this: A few years back, I didn't even post my Wrapped data because my little sister had listened to so much Taylor Swift on my account. And I like Taylor Swift!) Read more...
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Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Comedian nails the discomfort of trying to support a friend who's in the wrong
Tragically, our friends are not always in the right. Sometimes they are in the wrong, and we have to figure out how to support them without technically endorsing their horrible behavior.
Comedian Caleb Hearon has captured this particular feeling in a front-facing video, which continues to be Twitter's medium of choice. His friend is venting to him about some situation where they clearly messed up but aren't admitting it, and he really nails the reaction of a friend who wants to help but is still ... a little skeptical of the narrative here.
We see the vague affirmations, the anxious glances to the side, and the tentatively critical "part of me wonders" that inevitably gets interrupted. Did his friend fuck up? Definitely. Will he tell them that to their face? Absolutely not. Read more...
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