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Broad classification for digital life & internet.
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Falsely claiming indifference to a birthday celebration while secretly, and visibly, hoping for a proper fuss.
Read full entry →Publicly claiming platonic contentment with an ex while privately maintaining a level of interest that suggests otherwise.
Read full entry →The indiscriminate collection of dating app matches without any real intention of following up with most of them.
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 →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 →A rare, seamless video conference completed entirely without technical interruption or audio confusion.
Read full entry →A sudden overwhelming backlog of messages and app alerts discovered the morning after midnight celebrations.
Read full entry →The visually distracting failure of a virtual video background to properly render around a moving person.
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 →Requiring extensive prior internet context before the joke can be properly appreciated or understood at all.
Read full entry →So thoroughly repurposed across the internet that its true source is now completely untraceable.
Read full entry →An unexpected, slightly embarrassing act of restaurant staff generosity involving candles and forced group singing.
Read full entry →Guilty of documenting a meal for social media only after already consuming a substantial portion of it.
Read full entry →An internet joke that has fully cycled out of relevance before being sincerely embraced by an older relative.
Read full entry →A small, unobtrusive gesture of support offered without any expectation of a lengthy or immediate reply.
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.
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