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Angela Andaloro proudly serves as a scribe, documenting all the shenanigans happening online. Her writing has been featured across Entertainment Weekly, PEOPLE, BuzzFeed, and more.

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The Kendrick Lamar Mustard meme is dominating the Internet

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

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Anna Good

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Explaining the ‘My Femboy Roommate’ meme

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Wifejak discourse rages after Nick Fuentes calls meme ‘pathetic’

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