Michelle Santiago Cortés

The creator opens up about her days as a 1D fanfiction writer and the glories of being anonymous online.

Think for a moment of this common American summer tableau: a cheerful clique in seersucker or linen, gathered around a tray of oysters, clinking sparkly glasses dripping with beads of condensation. I

Think for a moment of this common American summer tableau: a cheerful clique in seersucker or linen, gathered around a tray of oysters, clinking sparkly glasses dripping with beads of condensation. I

The way Rosalía slips in and out of Latinidad is definitely insulting, but it says more about Latinidad than it does about her.

There are over 600 million views under TikTok’s #thatgirl. The earlier video sketches making fun of a range of pick-me girls have been taken over by sunrise matcha lattes, bullet journals, and workout routines.

You use Snapchat when you want to and you don’t use it when you don’t. You’re there to maintain relationships and you’ll abandon the platform when those relationships disintegrate or migrate to another one. It’s not a hellscape, it’s just another place to be online.

You use Snapchat when you want to and you don’t use it when you don’t. You’re there to maintain relationships and you’ll abandon the platform when those relationships disintegrate or migrate to another one. It’s not a hellscape, it’s just another place to be online.

Welcome to Internet Diaries, a monthly interview series that asks the internet’s favorite people where and how they spend their time online. What are the niche accounts they follow? The platforms they can’t get enough of? The apps they can’t live without? The corners of the internet they call home? This month, TikTok’s Aunty Kalepe answers all these questions and tells us how she fosters community online.

Maybe, Hot Girl Summer was just the kind of projection into the future that’s far more revealing about the present than about anything coming into being. Maybe, our hopes for the future are directly proportional to our current sense of despair or exhaustion. And maybe, those hopes and dreams will remain unattainable until we address our current dread.

What is a condiment, a sauce, and a dips? Perhaps you wouldn’t expect a topic as innocuous as this to spark passion or controversy, but these various definitions can be hotly debated.