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A deeply infuriating four-minute audio file consisting mostly of indicator clicks, swearing at traffic, and heavy breathing.
Read full entry →A toxic, insecure dating strategy involving artificially delaying a WhatsApp response to project an aura of high value.
Read full entry →The narcissistic, deeply annoying habit of immediately invalidating a colleague's cold by boasting about a severe flu you had in 2019.
Read full entry →An uncertain, anxiety-inducing waiting period between a message being marked read and any actual response arriving.
Read full entry →Achieving a rare, comfortable equilibrium in messaging frequency that satisfies both partners' communication needs.
Read full entry →The indiscriminate collection of dating app matches without any real intention of following up with most of them.
Read full entry →An intense, disproportionate spiral of anxiety triggered entirely by a short, deliberately vague message.
Read full entry →Using vague, softened language to describe a relationship dynamic that is, in reality, straightforwardly unsuccessful.
Read full entry →The protective, slightly proud act of proofreading a partner's messages before they go out to friends or family.
Read full entry →The compulsive act of digging through old texts to re-analyse a comment whose meaning has suddenly become unclear.
Read full entry →A considerate, unprompted heads-up sent ahead of an unavoidable delay, sparing the other person any needless anxiety.
Read full entry →Having spent an unreasonable amount of time drafting a single text, only to send a version you're still not happy with.
Read full entry →Announcing an intention for mindfulness or focus while simultaneously demonstrating the exact opposite behaviour in real time.
Read full entry →Providing far more personal travel detail in an automated email response than any recipient actually needs or wants.
Read full entry →Claiming full comprehension of a lengthy message chain while having actually absorbed almost none of the content.
Read full entry →An aggressively upbeat closing phrase deployed with total disregard for the actual tone or content of the preceding message.
Read full entry →An unwelcome scheduling collision between a work-mandated bonding activity and genuinely anticipated social plans.
Read full entry →A sudden overwhelming backlog of messages and app alerts discovered the morning after midnight celebrations.
Read full entry →The performative act of sending correspondence at an unreasonable hour purely to signal effort rather than urgency.
Read full entry →Delivering a passive-aggressive reminder of a prior message with just enough politeness to seem professional and just enough edge to sting.
Read full entry →Blindsided by an unintended text substitution that slipped past a hurried proofread and into a sent professional message.
Read full entry →A small but real disappointment triggered by a work notification arriving well outside any reasonable hours.
Read full entry →Haunted by an automated email response from a previous holiday that never got switched off, quietly confusing everyone since.
Read full entry →Requiring extensive prior internet context before the joke can be properly appreciated or understood at all.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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