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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.

Anna Good

Left: Woman running a marathon. Text overly reads "When you gave your boyfriend extra snacks to give you during your marathon and he eats them all." Right: Woman eating a strawberry in glasses and running bra, text overlay reads "me while the internet rages on about my marathon snacks almost a year ago."

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“Snackgate”: Runner calls out boyfriend for eating her marathon snacks. The internet turned it into a relationship test

Left: Man looking into camera, caption overlay reads "Find a girl who hates all men." Right: Woman looking into camera, text overlay reads, "Straight women who dislike men, have the best husbands."

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Culture

“The boys are catching on”: The TikTok theory that men should actively seek out women who hate them

Susan is a freelance writer following humanity one UGC at a time.

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Susan LaMarca

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Women are sharing the cute things their partners do in the “Not Mr. Darcy but” meme

Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

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Charlotte Colombo

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“We’ve all been there”: What is “Shrekking?” The Gen Z dating trend, explained

3 panel: Left: Mariachi performer playing the guitar in a living room. Middle: Man sipping champagne as a Mariachi performer plays guitar and sings behind him. Right: Two men moving a TV. Caption overlay reads, "This is your sign to hire a Mariachi performer while your cheating ex moves out."

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“Whatever you paid him, it wasn’t enough”: Petty king hires Mariachi performer to trail cheating ex during move-out

Left: pregnant woman lying in hospital bed while young adult man sitting beside her touches her belly. Right: Text reading "once I'm home I've got nothing in the tank which leads to having very little patience and really only being present in body only."

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“When is HER me time?”: Dad juggling 6-day workweek and young kids asks if he’s entitled to “me time”

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

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Left: Text reading "This morning, I woke up to a Venmo request for $3.25 with the note “half the fries.” At first I thought it was a joke, but nope, he was serious." Right: Woman dipping French fries into red sauce in cafe.

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“I thought it was a joke”: Man baffles date with $3 Venmo request for half the fries

Left: Man messaging other women while at dinner with his wife, sitting across from him. Right: screenshot of text conversation, text reads "I sent the video to my mom this morning it's 12:40pm here."

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Husband caught messaging women during dinner with his wife. Then her daughter finds the viral TikTok

Left: Husband grasping onto wife inside of a gondola, caption overlay reads "POV: you plan a beautiful honeymoon in Europe just to find out your husband has a crippling fear of heights." Right: Tweet reading "Now, if he filmed her having a panic attack due to a phobia, he’d be called a monster. This was messed up. Comfort that man. He’s terrified!"

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“Zero emotional support”: Bride laughs as husband panics on gondola ride, commenters clash over whether it’s cruel

Left: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on Jason Kelce's podcast New Heights. Right: The Simpsons characters Edna Krabappel and Principle Skinner locked together, caption overlay reads "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married."

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Memes

26 memes and reactions to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement breaking the internet

Left: Woman looking into camera telling a story. Caption overlay reads: "The date that made me swear off dating in New York (story time)." RIght: Woman speaking into the camera, caption overlay reads "so he asked the server to get a separate table for him and I."

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“Acting like that at 43 is the hugest red flag”: NYC woman’s “worst first date” with “egomaniac” goes viral for all the wrong reasons

Rebekah is a freelance reporter for the Daily Dot.

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Redditors share 15 signs someone is quietly planning to leave their relationship

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“Should have left it alone”: Weeks after Tea app’s data breach, male version TeaOnHer also hacked

Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

Rachel Kiley

Left: Couple standing side by side, text overlay reads "Golden Retriever girlfriend (shaking hands emoji) black cat boyfriend" Right: Man sitting in the backseat of a car in a green crewneck looking incredulous, text overlay reads "My black cat boyfriend."

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“Black cat boyfriends” are dethroning “Golden Retriever boyfriends” as the new internet crush archetype

Left: Man standing next to woman, caption reads "Roommates that get Hinge men to build things in our apartment >>>" Middle: Man putting together furniture, caption reads "Find yourself a man on Hinge to build your furniture" Right: Woman patting man's head as he builds furniture, caption reads "POV: You get your hinge date to build your new TikTok shop furniture."

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The “Bob the Builder” dating trend has women turning Hinge intro a free handyman service

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