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Bad Girls Club season 16 misses the point

In 2016, we no longer needed to turn on the TV to see pretty girls get drunk and fight, nor did we need to go to the TV and see how these pretty girls live their lives thanks to social media. However, Oxygen did not realize this and instead chose to cultivate a group of girls that had sizable social media followings.

I believe the goal was to have their built in audience tune into the show and revive the show's consistently falling numbers. This did not work as season 16 performed worse than season 15, continuing the show's decline.

This season still had some good moments, but a few things spoiled it, like transition scenes showing the girls browsing their phones and the weird sexual coercion arc that was portrayed as a romance between Kandyce and Bynesha. That's a throughline by the way, BGC loves ignoring obvious sexual harassment.

BUT, to give it props and to show how vulgar the show had gotten by this point, season 16 was the ONLY season where a girl went home for biting someone in a fight. Yes, there have been multiple fights where girls have bit each other. Wholesome family fun, amirite?

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I finally have found out what the "holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity/i work in queer media" memes have meant.

I'm sad I'm late to the party, but at least I got there eventually

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nothing makes me madder than when I type for a file in the windows search area and then it fucking searches for it with bing.

i fucking hate windows sometimes

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Girlies be mad that Billboard placed T-Swift at #2 on their greatest pop stars of the 21st century and

1.) We got 76 more years before this is a list that makes sense

2.) Literally ONLY Usher and Justin Timberlake were the only people whose career's peaked before the 2010s.

It's pretty much a list of cool 2010s pop stars and like 2 people from the 00s. Not saying anyone isn't deserving to be on there, it's just not exactly reflective of the 21st century lol

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r/askgaybros: is it one of the most transphobic space on reddit?

Like any gay boi, I like reddit. On reddit there are many gay communities. And r/askgaybros are for the gays that are not like those gays. You know the ones. The gay ones. They're all bros on r/askgaybros.

Anyway, who wants a deep dive on this subreddit? I started drafting one like 2 years ago.

The main topics of the subreddit are the following:

1.) WOMEN? PEOPLE LIKE WOMEN?

2.) Trans men? On my gay hookup app??

3.) WHAT DO YOU MEAN TRANS WOMEN ARE ON GRINDR?

4.) Why do none of the men I meet on Sniffies want to settle down and open up a quaint B&B in Vermont with me?

5.) 1001 ways to make a strawman argument to demonize trans people.

6.) No I'm not a hypocrite for being scared of trans people.

7.) I am so glad I'm ✨m a s c✨

8.) I'm angry and bitter all the time because I can't relate to other gay people. Why will no one date me?

9.) I made prolonged eye contact with a masculine older man on a train and now I understand love

10.) 1001 ways to lie about being "straight passing"

I'm taking the piss a bit, but that place (at the time of my last research) was a CESSPIT

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Also you can boop yourself, just FYI

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Why did the media ever like Perez Hilton?

Seriously. He always sucked

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Well, I think it may be lost to time. In my YouTube history, the first instance of "White Letter" by Gongoss came in December of 2021. I couldn't find any videos using the search tools on YouTube that matched what I remembered, so I even used the advanced search features on google to narrow down the results to before then.

Unfortunately, I have not found it. There is a high likelihood that the video may have been taken down due to copyright or the channel just decided to biff it for other reasons. It's a shame. Hopefully I'll stumble upon it again.

Edit: The compilation is not in my history. I remember I only viewed it in incognito mode because I didn't want it to affect my recommended videos. Another reason why this has been so difficult to find again.

SEARCHING FOR A VOCALOID PLAYLIST

Over 2 years ago I found a vocaloid playlist which opened with "White Letter" by Gongoss and had a hot pink background as its thumbnail. However, I haven't been able to rediscover that video since then. I'm grateful that I found that video since "White Letter" and "I am a programmer's song" are such bangers, but there were a few others that were incredible earworms that I haven't been able to find again :(

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SEARCHING FOR A VOCALOID PLAYLIST

Over 2 years ago I found a vocaloid playlist which opened with "White Letter" by Gongoss and had a hot pink background as its thumbnail. However, I haven't been able to rediscover that video since then. I'm grateful that I found that video since "White Letter" and "I am a programmer's song" are such bangers, but there were a few others that were incredible earworms that I haven't been able to find again :(

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Listening to Bitter Tea with my ex-boyfriend

Back in December of 2019 I was sitting in my bedroom (technically living room since I was in a studio apartment) and he really wanted to listen to what I was listening to. So, I played him the accessibly inaccessible 2006 album from the Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea, and the first track I picked was "Borneo" which catalogs the events of a gambler turned silversmith.

In it, frantic synths accompany the manic iambic ramblings of a person who steals debit cards and deeds to houses to fund their gambling habit, till after a brief respite working to mend silver, they finally meet a debt they can't escape in Borneo.

But it's definitely not a track to listen to while anxious, which my boyfriend at the time always was. And it's also certainly not a track to listen to when you intend to drive at the speed limit. It's the kind of track to listen to when you need to go from 90 to 55 when you see a state trouper on the Expressway.

It looks towards the future, but through under-slept, bloodshot eyes, desperate for relief.

Needless to say, he did not like Borneo, nor many of the other tracks on Bitter Tea. Though, the remainder tracks came down to taste rather than provoking anxiety.

Of course the fan-favorite (and pop masterpiece) "Benton Harbor Blues (Again)" went over well. That alone has to be one of the top songs of the 2000's.

Can you believe 2006 was 18 years ago?

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Amphetamine and Alcohol the real AA battery

Like the energizer bunny fr

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Chai's Punk is still a good album

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Wellbutrin monster from 2018

I left them in the bottle too long and they fused together into some horrible abomination. Mixture of leftover 300mg pills and 150mg pills.

I still remember the disgusting bitter taste of these guys when I was dry-swallowing them as a senior in high school. Quit them for a bit later that year as a freshman in college, only busting them out for exams.

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So MJ Lenderman has had a pretty critically successful year. I have been meaning to listen to him intently, but have only heard a few tracks in passing. When I finally get around to a proper album listen-through I'll probably say "man I slept on MJ Lenderman!"

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Brief thoughts on Charm School

Can we all agree that season two of Charm School is VASTLY inferior to season 1?

Sharon Osborne lacked both the acting and comedic abilities of Mo'Nique, the cast was much more bland, the judges were lifeless, the challenges were pointless, there was OVERT racism, and finally they could not handle a villain arc... I'm sure we can see how poorly the Britney Spears jokes aged.

I still laughed a lot though.

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This goes hard