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A small, unobtrusive gesture of support offered without any expectation of a lengthy or immediate reply.
Read full entry →Feigning general helplessness with devices while displaying suspiciously precise skill in one specific area.
Read full entry →Visibly present and active across social platforms while conspicuously failing to answer a direct message.
Read full entry →A small, well-timed check-in message sent instinctively by a close friend who's noticed a change in mood.
Read full entry →Someone whose enthusiasm for a group chat topic vastly outweighs the actual engagement level of everyone else in it.
Read full entry →Obsessively focused on pedantic corrections of others' spelling and punctuation in situations that call for neither.
Read full entry →A relationship kept technically alive by a single annual message, with total radio silence for the other 364 days.
Read full entry →Struck by the sudden, irreversible horror of an email sent to three hundred people instead of one.
Read full entry →A skilled, well-timed comedic intervention capable of instantly dissolving tension in an otherwise heated group chat.
Read full entry →A brief but total collapse of professional dignity caused entirely by predictive text with a mind of its own.
Read full entry →A collective, unexplained group silence that leaves the original sender wondering what exactly they did wrong.
Read full entry →The unshakable, nationwide inability of anyone at a wedding reception to clap along to music in correct rhythm.
Read full entry →A catastrophic, tone-deaf text response typed on autopilot before actually reading the full message.
Read full entry →A blessed, temporary ceasefire in a parent group chat that has otherwise generated ninety notifications in an hour.
Read full entry →A thin, unconvincing denial of reality TV fandom immediately undone by encyclopaedic contestant knowledge.
Read full entry →A slow, excruciating video-call ritual in which each person's total lack of general knowledge is broadcast individually.
Read full entry →An involuntary physical reaction to hearing your own recorded voice, which never once sounds the way you imagine it.
Read full entry →A single-word acknowledgement text that neither confirms nor denies understanding of anything that was actually said.
Read full entry →A sudden burst of pure, unearned joy delivered via a single automated text message about school closures.
Read full entry →A rare, near-perfect synchronisation of takeaway logistics and television scheduling.
Read full entry →A lengthy, jargon-heavy breakdown of a football move that ends with everyone more confused than when it started.
Read full entry →A tense internal debate about how much passive aggression is professionally acceptable in a single sentence.
Read full entry →A wildly inaccurate time estimate given before a kickabout that always somehow extends well past sunset.
Read full entry →The specific secondhand embarrassment felt watching a guest's decades of hope collapse in real time on national television.
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