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Ryan Broderick

@broderick

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I write the Garbage Day newsletter about web culture. Host @thecontentmines podcast. Part of @digivoidmedia .

New York, I guess
Joined December 2008
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5 years
Thereโ€™s no way to emotionally prepare yourself for how this cat looks
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4 years
On this day six years ago, Lucky Luciano decided to do it to us
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6 years
Hi, I am just learning that Pikachu speaks English in the new Pokemon movie and, yes, it is extremely fucking weird
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1 year
Itโ€™s actually very weird how basically after Civil War, MCU characters stopped not just being in physical locations but stopped interacting with objects around them. The craziest part of this scene is the fact Cap has to react to a specific thing in the room that affects the plot
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Maybe my favorite ending to an MCU film
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2 years
This tweet is a great way for a lot of Americans to find out the British equivalent of Dollar General is called Poundland
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7 years
wanna see something wicked fucked up?
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1 year
A breathtaking series of owns
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11 months
all 4 genres of music
@YourMusicTakes
Hot Take Safe Space
11 months
Taylor Swift has mastered all 4 genres of music. What else is there for her to do?
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6 years
Anthony Bourdain describing Waffle House is the single-most important description of America that has ever been articulated.
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5 years
imagine being so brain poisoned by Twitter you write a takedown piece about people being excited about seeing literally the first picture ever of a black hole
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
I think Balenciaga pope might be the first real mass-level AI misinformation case. Kinda cool to watch tbh.
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
The Boys subreddit is chaos right now. Threads getting locked, users rage-deleting whole accounts. Itโ€™s amazing. Right-wing users are whining about โ€œno politics,โ€ but itโ€™s impossible to talk about the show without them now. Fans who thought Homelander was cool are in a meltdown.
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1 year
Iโ€™m genuinely getting very worried that there are actually like a lot of people walking around drinking virgin jungle juice all day and itโ€™s beginning to make me feel completely insane. Where did this start? Who is patient zero? Why is this happening?
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aya ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿฆซ
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whatโ€™s wrong with her
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2 years
shoutout to the Twitch user who said "pog" in the chat to a baby saying her first words on stream
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Arex
2 years
I'm so glad this was caught on camera
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1 year
I don't bring this up much because I don't want to be a bummer, but I think the entire world is actually still currently experiencing large-scale psychotic episode thanks to the pandemic that is affecting every aspect of our lives and is made worse by our inability to admit it.
@BBCWorld
BBC News (World)
1 year
Mental-health crisis from pandemic was minimal, study suggests
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2 years
Those who do not learn from Dash Con are doomed to repeat Dash Con
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11 months
uh oh I have some bad news for you about what the rest of all of our lives are gonna be like ๐Ÿ™Š
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Empire State Building
11 months
Let's never do this again.
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7 months
I find something about this so deeply upsetting and grim. Editing your personal photos to make people look happier, more photogenic. The ability to edit your own memories essentially. Awful stuff.
@NexusBen
Ben Schoon
7 months
The Pixel 8 is getting what I'm going to call the "Michael Scott" treatment for photos, with the ability to literally change faces using AI. It looks WILD More from the leaked ad here:
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Ryan Broderick
7 years
rt if u agree
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5 years
oh cool it finally happened
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6 months
The town gimp canโ€™t even writhe around on the ground anymore because of woke
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Sky News
6 months
Somerset Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years
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2 years
Machine Gun Kelly decided to cover System Of A Down's "Aerials" live on Howard Stern and it's so much worse than you could ever imagine
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
Heโ€™s not playing 4D chess. He just doesnโ€™t know what heโ€™s doing. And heโ€™s just gonna keep floundering until the bank take this site away from him.
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Ryan Broderick
6 years
I just watched a gender reveal video on Facebook where a guy puts a watermelon full of blue jello in a live alligator's mouth and then after the "reveal" the man has to wrestle the alligator to stop it from attacking his family
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Ryan Broderick
2 months
Separating smartphones from irl socializing is, at this point, impossible. But as someone who was a teenager right as this graph was collapsing, I can tell you that there was a moment where there were free or low-cost third spaces for young people and then one day there wasn't.
@magdajtaylor
Magdalene J. Taylor
2 months
People are so unwilling to blame iPhones as one of the main culprits in a variety of social ills but graphs like are revealing. Itโ€™s obviously the phones.
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9 years
Finally, a news anchor I can trust http://t.co/O2ojaZBVvf
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
idk man, I feel like "74% of American workers don't regret completely upending their careers during a pandemic" is actually a bigger story than "26% of people who changed jobs regret it"
@CNBC
CNBC
2 years
26% of job switchers regret joining the Great Reshuffle, survey finds: 'Theyโ€™ve sobered up'
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
MONKEYS DON'T KNOW WHAT ILLUSIONS ARE
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
Interesting to find out that during every radicalized election, every genocide, every riot around the world over the last 10 years, huge tech platforms could have swiftly identified disinformation and malicious propaganda and paused their distribution of it, but they didn't.
@googleeurope
Google Europe
2 years
Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, weโ€™re blocking YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe, effective immediately. Itโ€™ll take time for our systems to fully ramp up. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action.
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
2017 goals
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Ryan Broderick
4 months
I tried to figure out what Alan Wake is and even briefly considered playing it but ultimately decided itโ€™s more fun to passive experience it via unconnected clips online. At this point I canโ€™t even imagine how it could be a video game. I think itโ€™s just some guy.
@The_GM_is_God
Ben ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ€๐ŸŽฌ
4 months
Alan Wake you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. theyโ€™ll kill you
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Ryan Broderick
7 years
Anyways, here are few of my favorite shots of Sean Spicer looking like the guy in a zombie film that doesn't tell anyone he got bit
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9 years
British lads overreacting to their friends doing normal stuff when they're drunk is my new favorite meme http://t.co/7lWmhwecKN
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
The Twitter Blue subscriber in a nut shell
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2 years
Youโ€™re laughing? Millions of apes will go without their slurp juices tonight and youโ€™re laughing?
@WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru
2 years
๐ŸšจBREAKING: Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse Discord servers have been hacked. Millions worth of #NFTs reportedly stolen.
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6 years
Macron's face after trying Finnish coffee is my favorite kind of French despair
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8 years
this dog's mouth is full of tater tots
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Ryan Broderick
6 years
1960: In the future, we'll be able to take a flying car to the moon 2018: We used the data from our porn site to prove everyone in Hawaii stress masturbated after someone accidentally texted them that they were all about to killed by a missile
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Ryan Broderick
7 years
If you replace Sadiq Khan's name with "Superman" in Trump's tweets about the London Bridge attack you end up with Lex Luthor's Twitter feed
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Ryan Broderick
6 months
I spent some time looking into the claim that Bin Laden's "Letter to America" went viral on TikTok. And, after finding some of the videos in this supercut and lining it up with Know Your Meme's timeline, I'm pretty confident saying this tweet is actually what made it "go viral".
@yashar
Yashar Ali ๐Ÿ˜
6 months
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Ladenโ€™s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States. The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, andโ€ฆ
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Ryan Broderick
7 years
Oh hey, so, here's a photo of Bernie Sanders watching a furry fight a Jack Skellington cosplayer at Anime Boston
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
No exaggeration, I watch this vine once a week
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Ryan Broderick
11 months
I know the Reddit blackout is sort of a punchline on Twitter, but it's basically made Google worthless. Last night, I tried to look up why an actor was replaced on a show I'm watching and all the results were Reddit threads and all of the subreddits were private.
@morgan_sung
morgan sung
11 months
8,300 subreddits (!!) pledged to go dark or read-only in a 48 blackout protesting reddit's API pricing, which will be prohibitively expensive for many of the indie developers running third-party apps
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6 years
Michael B. Jordan, welcome to my celebrity weeb list
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Ryan Broderick
5 years
Tumblrโ€™s big mistake here is specifying it as โ€œhuman genitalsโ€
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
There's not one detail in this vine that isn't absolutely perfect
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Ryan Broderick
7 years
Yo, for real, French debates aren't as nearly as fun without the angry leftist grandpa and the bored hot communist #2017LeD รฉbat
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
The "make my man nut 6-7 times a day" podcast clip didn't actually come from a podcast. It was a short clip created by a pornstar to advertise her OnlyFans. Inside the new "fake podcast" viral content growth hack.
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4 months
I've received messages all week from readers reporting the same thing. MrBeast's video is clearly being promoted as an undisclosed ad across the platform to juice its numbers.
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this has shown up in my feed maybe 7 times now it is both missing the post time next to the username (indicative of a normal user post) and the Ad indicator on the top right so is there a third, secret type of post you get when youโ€™re a YouTuber and Elon wants you to post here?
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7 years
imagine getting owned so hard you have to try and argue that humans have actually never gone to space
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8 years
German is such an efficient language
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4 years
I discovered something utterly horrifying about the new Harrison Ford movie and I feel compelled to share it all with you
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8 years
I'll be organizing a memorial best vines thread for the next 48 hours. Here's the first and possibly BEST vine
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1 year
It could be that I just donโ€™t remember, but try and name a non-CGI location or object in an MCU movie from the last three phases that has a fundamental effect on the plot of the movie, one that if removed, would mean the movie couldnโ€™t continue.
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7 years
retweet this if you think Betty should join the punk scene and Archie should mind his own damn business
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3 years
This just opened my third eye
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4 years
really digging post-apocalyptic Tim Kaine
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
Let's speak it plainly: We are watching a wealthy man haphazardly strip-mine an app built and popularized by people of color and activists and relied on in the Global South as the last public social app that can still deliver news and information in 2G.
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7 years
Shit, I think you misspelled, "Shia LaBeouf โ€” whose mother is Jewish โ€” protests man wearing Hitler youth hat saying '14, 88' into stream."
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9 years
Dang, universal healthcare AND gay marriage in America by 2015 http://t.co/tVou0FXMDM
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Ryan Broderick
3 years
The image all those right-wing influencers were sharing of the original Lola Bunny is actually pornographic fan art. Whoops!
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
The users whining about season 3 of The Boys want Butcher and Homelander to high-five, agree to disagree, and then go fight the Real Bad Guy. They want a tragic Homelanderโ€™s backstory so they donโ€™t have to reflect on why they were so drawn to the character in the first place.
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Ryan Broderick
10 months
Liam Neeson can't stop driving or his family will explode
@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
10 months
Liam Neeson can't stop driving or his family will explode in the first trailer for #Retribution
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Ryan Broderick
7 years
Retweet this if you're proud of The Babadook's personal journey
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
Look, we fixed Sonic's teeth. We can stop this if we all work together.
@vulture
Vulture
2 years
BREAKING: Chris Pratt voices Chris Pratt
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
probably the best Donald Trump vine
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Ryan Broderick
3 years
Alright, I'm ready to share my findings. Optimistic main character who actually has depression
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
People are asking how Redditors could sympathize with Homelander (or Darth Vader or whatever) when the character is so clearly the bad guy. They know heโ€™s the bad guy. They want the bad guy to be revealed to just be misunderstood and then redeemed so they donโ€™t get uncomfortable.
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3 years
A redditor learns about anarchy
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1 year
Whatโ€™s so sad about trying to name any non-CGI physical objects that actors interact with in a meaningful way in the recent MCU movies is that the main one in Quantumania is a Baskin Robbins cake and the main one in Endgame isโ€ฆ the Taco Bell tacoโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜•
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4 years
One of the most mindblowing things (of the many) about living in the current era is that there's almost no actual critical engagement with the biggest musical act in the world This might be the first time I've ever read something substantial on what BTS' songs are actually about
@GENmag
GEN
4 years
In this cultural moment, wherein ostensible K-pop boy band BTS ( @bts_twt ) is the biggest pop group on the planet, why not discuss what they actually have to say?
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8 years
Today I learned how otter moms let baby otters float on their stomachs to keep them dry and now I can't stop crying
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
2009 was the last year that Four Loko had caffeine in it
@jackanfer
jack fernandez news and updates
1 year
Can someone please make a video essay on whatever the hell was going on here
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Taylor Swift stans learning who Tool are because they're currently selling more copies than "Lover" is really something special
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Itโ€™s worth pointing out that even as right-wing and transgressive as the comic was, itโ€™s very clear Homelander is a deranged fascist. I mean, he full on [spoiler] a baby at one point. But there seems to have been a lot of fans of the show who thought he was just a cool guy.
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7 years
my new favorite Tumblr meme is insisting that The Babadook is gay
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7 years
I think I'm going to have a fucking heart attack
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6 years
I audibly gasped jfc
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
At this point, I think โ€œ.01% of bitcoin holders hold 27% of all bitcoinโ€ should be included in every single article thatโ€™s ever written about it. To me, it has to be the starting point for any discussion about crypto. Bitcoin is not populist. It is feudal.
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More Perfect Union
2 years
NEW: In the crypto economy, the 1% is old news. .01% of bitcoin holders hold 27% of all bitcoin! Thatโ€™s 100x the wealth concentration of the regular economy. Crypto, which was supposed to decentralize wealth and power, has just made it worse. We investigate with @munecatmusic :
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2 years
The third season has been such a wild balancing act, but if they can keep it up, itโ€™s on track to becoming one of the best modern satires in a long time. Itโ€™s like edging into Robocop or Starship Troopers territory. Though Iโ€™m concerned they might both-sides the Soldier Boy stuff
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
Oh wow Tucker Carlson released a pretty emotional message to fans signing off for the last time.
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
someone made an AI model of Tucker Carlson's voice read the super NSFW 4chan Vaporeon copypasta and oh my god
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Ryan Broderick
6 years
Please, god, just bring back normal ads. Iโ€™ll buy whatever you want. Please.
@BurgerKing
Burger King
6 years
him: it's only a month waifu: ...........๐Ÿ˜ญ
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Ryan Broderick
7 years
This guy in r/writing trying to find a good final line for his sci-fi novel is the best thing happening on the internet right now
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7 years
wanna see the best post on the internet?
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
omg Irish balloon car
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Ryan Broderick
1 year
@parismarx Also how boring for the screenwriter! Your characters canโ€™t do anything of any material value in the environment around them. To say nothing of the character development we lose. One of first ways weโ€™re introduced to Thor is him smashing coffee cups in a diner.
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Ryan Broderick
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Three years ago today, Asif ended his friendship with Mudasir and became friends with Salman. In May, Asif became best friends with Mudasir and Salman (who are now also friends). 2018 isn't all bad.
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Ryan Broderick
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EDM, emo trap, and pop country are about to collapse into each and reinvent stomp clap hey ho indie, but instead of suspender trust fund kids it'll be a bunch of guys with lasered off face tattoos playing unplugged guitars next to Akai MPCs and it'll sweep TikTok like a virus.
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5 years
The Tumblr community reacts to todayโ€™s news
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Ryan Broderick
4 years
Brazil's press minister Fabio Wajngarten is waiting for the results a COVID-19 test and is currently suspected of having the virus. He was with Trump last Saturday at Mar-a-Lago.
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
We can't ever forget about the vape tornado vine
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
I tweet the hot dog guy like once a week probably
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Ryan Broderick
2 years
I can't believe this could happen to a community as strong and real as MonkeyPoxInu
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Ryan Broderick
3 years
It's December 1st
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Ryan Broderick
8 years
Tomorrow is the 2-year anniversary of the best Vine ever filmed
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Ryan Broderick
4 years
awful lot of "Infinite Jest" discourse happening this morning on a media platform that is so addictive it literally engrosses people until they lose their minds and are consumed by it entirely
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Ryan Broderick
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been thinking about this Reddit post a lot
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