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Of all the changes we’ve experienced this year, the blending of home and workspace is probably the most physically, emotionally, and philosophically overwhelming. Once upon a time, the majorly urban professional class poured energy into maximizing their mornings – squeezing in workouts, coffee-making, skincare, and outfit-picking, before commuting to arrive at their offices fully dressed and mentally optimized, ready to take on the day.

Now we roll out of bed, propping ourselves in front of our laptops in varying stages of reluctant undress – working in pajamas, or a business mullet (professional up top, nothing on the bottom). The line between awake and asleep, at home and at work is beyond blurred at this point. Often for worse, but there might be just one instance where it changed for the better. Over the course of a year, for instance, I’ve noticed our readers reliably flock to a certain kind of story around lunchtime, then again around 3:00 p.m. EST (lunchtime on the West Coast). Stories like “Free Erotic Fiction & Literotica Sex Stories Online” and “Sexual Fantasies – Kinky Sex Ideas for Real Women,” that some loyal readers seem to have in open incognito tabs or even bookmarked to cue up when they take a break.

The only reasonable assumption to make? A lot of people are masturbating during the workday. 

And why not? It’s never been easier to squeeze in a nooner. That said, don’t let the Jeffrey Toobin incident give you the wrong idea. We’re talking about adults having solo fun in the privacy of their own homes, away from the work laptop, in between Zoom calls instead of during them.

Beatrize*, a 28-year old underwriter at an insurance company, first discovered the benefits of midday masturbation shortly after ordering a sex toy with phenomenal reviews. Once it arrived in the mail, she realized nothing was stopping her from testing it out right then and there. As she settled into a work-from-home lifestyle, she learned that masturbating was the perfect remedy to a stressful phone call or an especially trying meeting. “I found it almost immediately gives me a mood boost and allows me to refocus and not let the negative experience impact my whole day,” she says. 

Some people go on a silly little walk. They fetch lunch around the corner or walk their dogs in the middle of the workday to decompress. We can nap during our lunch break, or squeeze in a workout, or watch an episode of a TV show — or triple-check to make sure our laptop camera is off, and have a toe-curling orgasm. Yes, it is technically the workday, which can make the prospect sound a little awkward at first. But the stresses of work are already spilling into our homes, often our bedrooms. Why shouldn’t we take advantage of the relief and relaxation we can only access at home during the workday too?

Amy*, a 23-year-old working in music licensing, uses her lunch break or any other kind of natural pause during the workday for her new routine. Sometimes it happens every day; other weeks are busier and only allow for a handful of sessions. “It’s definitely spontaneous,” she says, “but I try to do it when there’s a break in the action at work and I know I’m not going to be wanking to the sound of me ignoring my boss’s phone calls.”

“At first I was paranoid,” Beatrize says, explaining that she, like Amy, was worried that she’d get a work call the moment she stepped away from her desk. “Then I realized nobody is micromanaging me and I should just let go and enjoy things.” She adds that she has some rules about how and when she does it: “Nothing more than 12 minutes, because after 15 minutes my computer falls asleep and changes my status that is visible to the rest of the company.”

Masturbation is one of those extremely common and human things that are too ubiquitous to ignore, but often too taboo to acknowledge. Work video calls show our coworkers what our private lives look like, who we live with, how our pets move, and how our children act. We show our coworkers how we dress at home, and our Zoom backgrounds reveal so much more than anyone ever intended to reveal to a coworker. While we once commiserated over the quality of the office coffee or the freezing AC at work, now we exchange our experiences adapting to days spent working where we live. But this is one new habit that people are mostly keeping to themselves — with some exceptions. “There’s a huge age gap between me and some of my colleagues so I would say it’s taboo to admit,” Beatrize says. “However my coworker who is my age knows… and I believe she has done the same as well!”

If our traffic numbers reveal anything, it’s that more people than you might think are enjoying… themselves around lunchtime. And if your reaction to that news is to be sickened or outraged — maybe it’s because you’re missing out.

*Some names have been changed.

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Do you ever dream of finding out your horrible mother sold you — messy bun and all — to be a One Direction sex slave? Or are you more familiar with the dark twisted tale of a famous K-pop threesome, living fast at the helm of a vicious mafia in Seoul, playing with… guns? Or, maybe you live in a world where hot anime characters moonlight as dopey college students with stimulating tongue rings? Or perhaps, all you — (y/n) — want is for the two obviously gay characters in a popular show to just make out? If you need to check your pulse when you read the phrase: “there was only one bed” or worse, “(y/n) woke up one morning with the sudden urge to vomit,” don’t worry: You’re in good company.

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Welcome to the cringey-beautiful world of erotic fanfiction, also known as smut, where celebrities and fictional characters get both figuratively and literally bent over by lust-minded writers with thirsty readerships. What once was a dirty secret within geeky fandoms is now semi-mainstream, thanks to our recent surplus of free time and horniness. Not all fanfiction is erotic — some can be a simple exploration into alternative plotlines for beloved characters. But smut, fanfiction’s sexually explicit problem child, is all about seeing everything through a lens of sex. Smut is made according to the same rules as porn: If it exists, there’s probably smut about it — even the ship stuck in the Suez Canal isn’t out of bounds. 

Smut has always been a part of the very-online experience, but recently the trendy young adults of queer and alt TikTok have grown more confident in admitting they’re fluent in the language of thirsty lit. Memes about popular tropes and fanfic clichés are amplifying what is now a semi-public conversation. However, just because a TikTok about sloshing down to the family dinner table after spending a day reading smut can get 1M views, doesn’t mean it’s mainstream. If a smut reader talked about their interests with a non-smut reader, for example, they could easily be met with any number of assumptions about fanfiction and erotic prose. Fanfiction-lovers are often assumed to have unhealthy parasocial relationships, to be into unspeakably kinky stuff, or to be virgins. But sometimes, they’re met with the opposite reaction.

When 32-year-old Rory* learned her coworkers were all well-acquainted with fanfic vernacular, she realized she was among her people. Rory remembers, after a few post-work drinks, admitting to her coworkers: “I read things at work that I probably shouldn’t be reading at work.” After a pause, someone asked what she meant, exactly, and  Rory said, “I’ve kind of gotten really into this fanfic stuff.” Turns out, she was in a veritable summit of fanfiction enthusiasts – with everything from Harry Potter to BTS fandoms represented. After they exchanged AO3 tags, Rory confirmed that, while she might be hornier than most of her colleagues, she felt she was in good company all the same.

Rory explains that, compared to porn, with smut, “you get more of the burning and the lusting, especially if it’s a slow-burn fanfic where they both like each other, but neither of them will admit it and there is so much tension.” But despite all this talk of slow-burns, the fact that fanfic is based on characters who readers already know allows for easier access to the good stuff. By pulling from familiar faces and backstories, fanfiction writers can offer complex and emotionally charged sex scenes in the same amount of time it takes a busty housewife on Pornhub to realize she has no money to pay for pizza.

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But does that explain why so many people are now flocking to fanfiction? Melissa*, a 29-year old who not only reads but also writes fanfiction, has given the “why” a lot of thought: “We know what this world is. We know what the plot is. Let’s skip to the smut.” No matter the characters — be they celebrities or literal ships (still looking at you Suez Canal smut) — fanfiction doesn’t need a gratuitous plot. What’s more, fanfic doesn’t have to please critics, nor fit into guidelines about what’s appropriate; and, as Melissa puts it,“my mind has a higher special effects budget and better cinematography.” Fanfiction writers are free to explore sex in ways that writers who share their works on screens or through publishers have never been able to, which means smut often subverts the male gaze and centers queer desire in ways mainstream media has often teased but never delivered on. If the fandom says now kith, the fic will make it happen.

Literary snobs who might scoff at the idea of diving into fanfic can also look to people like longtime fanfiction reader and writer, Karla*, a 32-year-old product support specialist, says that — even as an English major — she probably reads more fanfiction than she does books. She’s read plenty of bodice-rippers, or as she calls them “old lady novels,” and says they’re great, “but those also get pretty campy as well. At that point, you might as well just read fanfiction.”

Even if you don’t read smut, you’ve certainly been touched by it: If the jocks and cheerleaders of the world point and laugh at the enemies-to-lovers fic reader, remind them of their mom’s dedication to the 50 Shades of Grey book and movie franchise. Lest we forget, that whole phenomenon all started as Twilight smut posted to fanfiction.net. Or point to the many book deals that emerged from Wattpad, like the Harry Styles fic-inspired After, which was later adapted into a film.

Or, you could just point to the meme that Karla’s brother — who doesn’t read fic, but knows she does — sent her recently. It asked: “Would you rather read a critically acclaimed book or would you rather read fan fiction written by a 13-year-old who has no idea about sex?”The response is really the only one that matters: “Is the fan fiction good though.”

*Some names have been changed.

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Today on Twitter, the words “McDonald’s Sprite” and “He’s dead” trended in unison, like some twisted waltz between blood-sworn enemies forced to work together against a greater evil, in this case, our fucking sanity.

This morning, a statement was released announcing the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. The 99-year-old royal left behind a thorny legacy — but, we’re here to talk about Sprite.

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McDonald’s Sprite is a storied meme, one so successful the two words have become building blocks for countless others. According to Know Your Meme, McDonald’s Sprite was first meme-ified in 2017 when a member of Brockhampton simply tweeted “mcdonald’s sprite taste different” [sic]. It’s been a running joke on the internet ever since, popping up whenever the mention seems just right — like today.

While the earliest memes focused on McDonald’s Sprite tasting “different,” later iterations quickly became more specific. McDonald’s Sprite tastes electronic; it tastes stronger than liquor; it tastes — and this may be the one adjective that tops them all — spicy. Like most memes, this one’s endurance seems to be rooted in its truth: McDonald’s Sprite does taste different.

I say that with confidence. The closest McDonald’s to me is minutes away, and I’m typing this story with a can of Sprite and a small-sized McDonald’s Sprite sitting on either side of my work laptop. To my left, McDonald’s Sprite. Upon tasting it, it’s immediately obvious why the internet uses words like “electronic” and “spicy” to describe the flavor. At first sip, you think, Why is it spicy? After a few Kombucha-girl takes, it settles into your mouth in 72p. It’s undeniable: McDonald’s Sprite tastes like it would pair well with Sophie’s “Ponyboy.” Next, after a brief break to cleanse my tastebuds, I sample Sprite from a can and nod my head in affirmation: This is definitely fruity, the lemon-lime fully caught in 4K, the bubbles posing no threat of electrocution.

Fountain sodas always taste different from their canned or bottled counterparts. The restaurants themselves provide the water and add in the syrup manually, playing with variables like water filtration and temperature to create a semi-signature product. Then there are the fountain spouts, which any fast-food employee will tell you are known to be well-seasoned over the years.

The joy around McDonald’s Sprite memes — even those created in the context of whether the fountain soda had the power to harm a near-centenarian royal — has never fully gone away; people were making TikToks about it just a few days ago. But today’s day-long laughing fit is an example of how the kind of twisted dark humor that was once relegated to 4chan and Reddit has officially entered the mainstream. This is, perhaps, a result of our pandemic-induced super-onlineness and general divestment from traditional institutions and values. 

Before, shitposting on the day of a public figure’s death happened in relatively closed communities. Now, people online seem to approach things with more nuance — yes, someone died, but that doesn’t mean they’re beyond criticism. And while some people surely find it distasteful, even disrespectful, to see people swapping morbid Sprite memes on the same day Prince Philip died, we can’t forget that the internet is only a portion of real life; what’s normal online isn’t always normal in real life. Cruel jokes and dark humor have a time and a place — and it might just be online.

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It’s 2014 and Tumblr rules your virtual life. Scrolling through the seas of fandoms and subcultures, you witness everything from surreal fights over Hitler kinship to the proliferation of hyper-specific identity labels. You eventually come across a post that stuns you, but instead of stopping you in your tracks, it just shocks you into scrolling faster. It’s something you want to revisit when the coast is clear; something much hotter even than Alex Turner’s love letter to Alexa Chung. 

What is it? A fast-paced video, a sex scene from a movie? Maybe — GIFs of undulating torsos, panting chests, or fingers hooking underwear to the side were also extremely popular. It could be something from the wealth of amateur porn so many couples uploaded straight to the platform. And because Tumblr is Tumblr, it could also be steamy diary entries, graphic fan art, or smutty fanfic. “Tumblr porn” covered a range of era-specific content that reflected a young generation’s sexual hopes and desires. In 2014 on Tumblr, it could have been anything.

Whatever it was, at the time, Tumblr was the catalyst for many a sexual awakening. Especially for queer people and women, Tumblr porn was a doorway to a world of stimulating content that was far, far away from Pornhub’s “uh-huh do you like that” offerings. Tumblr porn was smoldering, erotic, artful, suggestive, and only occasionally dirty. According to women’s magazines and blogs, it was the perfect gateway porn.

No wonder, then, that in 2021, Tumblr porn nostalgia is a generational dog-whistle all its own, a frequent topic on Sad Twitter and Queer TikTok. Maybe it’s become heightened right now because quarantine — although declared sexless — has actually given us way more solo time than we know what to do with, and plenty of downtime to think about what once got us off. We’re spending more time online and by ourselves than ever before, so a renewed reverence for Tumblr porn makes perfect sense.

For Christina*, a 24-year old living in London, England, Tumblr porn was a crucial part of her sexual awakening; she remembers it as “the porn you sort of found by accident, by virtue of just being there.” One minute, you were a happy camper, scrolling your feed, and suddenly you’d stumble upon a pair of nipples that Instagram would never allow. It might have felt fated, but it was hardly coincidental: Porn was ubiquitous on Tumblr — in fact, researchers determined that while 22% of Tumblr users consumed porn intentionally on the platform, an additional 28% were being “unintentionally exposed.” That was part of the magic of Tumblr porn: Much like a wet dream, it found you first. 

The rest of the magic came from how communal the Tumblr porn experience was: “A lot of my key and formative relationships as a teenager were friends and crushes I knew online,” Christina explained. When younger millennials and older Gen Z lacked the sexual experience to articulate their desires, Tumblr porn served as a shorthand for peer-approved sexual exploration and when it came to queer and female sexual desires, things felt less prickly.

Jackie* is a 26-year-old living in Brooklyn and for her, Tumblr porn was key in making her comfortable talking about sex and sexual desire with friends. “The people we shared this content with were our friends,” Jackie said. “They might have been internet friends, but you had that level of comfort with your friends to discuss these things. It definitely played a part in my adult sexual life.”

Because porn was all over Tumblr, you didn’t need to lurk in some little-known corner or feel like finding it required some type of unsavory hunger. It existed naturally, much like sex in real life. Users reblogged sex GIFs and erotic content with the same “this is who I am spirit” that they felt when reblogging song lyrics or TV show moments. “The people I followed on Tumblr were my friends and we were all in a mini-clique where we shared that kind of stuff among ourselves,” said Jackie.

And then it all disappeared. In December 2018, the platform announced  that “a better, more positive Tumblr” would be one without explicit adult content that excluded “real-life human genitals and female-presenting nipples.” The now-infamous “Tumblr porn ban” gutted communities and triggered a mass exodus off the site. The new Community Guidelines’ careful mention of GIFs, photo-realistic depictions of nudity, and sexual acts show just how varied and rich Tumblr’s horny content wast made headlines and inspired eulogies, and started a Tumblr porn nostalgia machine.

Tumblr had its reasons for banning porn — some safety-related and some business-related. It’s complicated and expensive for a platform to play whack-a-mole with illicit sexual content, but morality laws and sweeping bans on sex have never helped the vulnerable. Today, Tumblr maintains that “the removal of NSFW content in 2018 did not stop the site from being a destination for a diversity of expression — it’s still what “makes us unique today,” according to a spokesperson. But former users would beg to differ.

Jackie remembers the exact Tumblr post that changed everything: “So basically it was this girl,” Jackie said; a text post of a girl describing a day in her room. “She was horny and she wanted to play with herself. And she did it, with the family in the house and she wrote about how that made her feel.” This made a young Jackie wonder if she could feel similarly confident in her sexuality. If it wasn’t for the ban, 20- and 30-somethings today would be able to log into their old Tumblr accounts and revisit all the videos and pictures that used to get them off, and possibly even led them to masturbate for the first time. 

But there are those who will always argue that there is still porn on Tumblr: Liz*, 24, began their own porn-based Tumblr just months after the ban: “I started just to mostly write posts about my experiences and maybe share some erotic art. But the more NSFW blogs that I followed, the more I realized that porn is really not gone from Tumblr.” Liz said that a lot of their early sexual experiences weren’t consensual and that Tumblr porn helped them shape their sexual identity: “Now I have what I call a shrine to my sexual interests. I can be openly sexual there without fear of being judged.”

One thing that’s happened over the last few of years is that people who left the site took the lessons of Tumblr porn with them. In other words, a more educated consumer emerged from Tumblr’s Golden Age of Porn — one who seeks out ethically produced pornography and has created a market for anything-but-Bang-Bros porn. Now it’s possible to go to sites like  Archive of Our Own or to sexcapade Reddit for steamy stories, thoroughly tagged to make Tumblr proud. Granted, we still don’t have a virtual space where our sexuality — not just sexual orientation — can be a celebrated part of our online presence, much as it’s a part of our physical presence, but perhaps that will evolve, in the same way that IRL sexuality so often does.

Tumblr porn nostalgia yearns for that blossoming feeling of coming into one’s own sexual agency. It longs for those formative moments when we first realized what it felt like to be turned on; when we first became aware of our desires. Tumblr porn nostalgia is becoming a ritual, something a generation will want to revisit and remember for years to come.

It’s also possible that, even if Tumblr porn still existed as it once was, its former enthusiasts wouldn’t be as interested anymore. “An artful, smoldering GIF of a naked person isn’t going to do it for me anymore,” said Christina. “It was so palatable when sex felt like something huge and monumental and terrifying and exciting, but it loses that quality over time.” Being a happy sexual being can be awkward and hard, and Tumblr porn was a non-threatening, sultry and glamorous companion, the ideal place to explore and think about sexuality. Maybe it was only a beginning, and maybe that’s okay.

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The internet is often lauded as a technicolor cyberscape where lonely queer kids in flyover states can find like-minded people and feel less alone. If you spend enough time online, it’s easy to fall into a false sense that everything everywhere is super gay. There can seem to be countless safe spaces online; a platform like Tumblr can be seen as a fountain of “new” sexualities and identity labels; on TikTok, any pop-cultural obsession or niche-interest can be. But, utopian as it can sometimes appear, it’s also impossible to forget that the internet is also where some of the most aggressively straight people live and seethe — from 4chan’s incels to Reddit’s… redditors to the newest transphobic movement: Super Straight. 

Claiming to be a movement that represents a new sexual orientation, Super Straight is supposed to be a designation for people who are so straight that they can’t possibly be attracted to a trans person. It gained a growing ubiquity this week, mainly because of how quickly and aggressively its posts and hashtags are being chased off social media platforms.

On Tuesday, the Super Straight subreddit was banned from Reddit for “promoting hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups.” On TikTok, all that remains of the movement are videos using #superstraights — a hashtag that’s actually used on videos that criticize and parody the movement, as well as host necessary conversations about transphobia. These videos have collectively amassed over 3 million views. Meanwhile, the original hashtag — “#superstraight” — doesn’t yield any results. Instead, a message from TikTok explains that “this phrase may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.”

The movement’s merchandise website: www.superstraight.net appears to no longer be available. (Please name a straighter domain.) The movement’s only stable-ish online presence is an Instagram account that collects memes and TikToks that elaborate on what it means to be Super Straight. And perhaps the straightest post of them all is the first post: a screenshot of an Urban Dictionary entry that defines “super straight,” as “a sexual preference in which one prefers only the opposite sex with the exclusion of transgender people. The Super Straight flag consists of black and orange.” It feels very apt that the Super Straight flag bears the exact same colors as the Grindr logo. On a good day, its merch could be mistaken for Pornhub merch. Everything about it is divinely meme-able.

There’s more to the Super Straight movement than just being super-straight and selling merch, though: It also stands against cancel culture and appears intentionally committed to co-opting elements of LGBTQ+ discourse in a weird attempt to Uno-reverse criticism. By calling Super Straight sexuality, tagging the letters “SS” to the front of the LGBTQ acronym, bearing a flag, and explaining that, since Super Straight is a sexual orientation, it is not transphobic, Super Straights hope to confound the “blue-haired girls” who would argue that not being attracted to trans people does not make you part of an oppressed identity group.

Every identity is “valid” as long as it is true to the person claiming it. But, if your identity is based on stigmatizing trans people, then your identity is genuinely transphobic. Stating this doesn’t invalidate your identity, it’s just being honest. Nobody is required to date or have sex with trans people, but it’s eerily violent to organize an identity and a movement around excluding them. For Super Straights to do just that, while claiming that they’re persecuted is the ultimate irony. But, lucky for them, there are no political, medical, or religious institutions out to exclude and exterminate them, or pretend they’re just some transgressive novelty of modernity. Even though, that’s exactly what Super Straights are — a novelty, a footnote, a trend soon to be forgotten.

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Social media runs on conflict. Rarely is something ever trending on Twitter because it’s neutrally beloved by everyone. Instead, social media is a vast hellscape full of car crashes, truth bombs, and dumpster fires burning so high and bright you can see them from all across the internet. Amid the usual online detritus, occasionally something particularly noteworthy will stand out — like an accidental sex couch. 

In mid-December, the non-parents of TikTok were introduced to Nugget Tok, a slice of the platform devoted to the cult following of The Nugget, a modular children’s couch that doubles as a status symbol among parents who are also obsessed with Pelotons and curated virtual schooling pods. The Nugget comes in a stylish array of millennial-minded colors (most of which are limited edition) and features an even more millennial-looking triangle cushion. It costs about $229 and there are likely more people adding The Nugget to their Pinterest boards, than there are actual Nugget owners, since the couch is chronically sold out. The resale value of The Nugget spikes as high as $1,000, with certain retired colorways, like Stardust or Lagoon, being particularly prized.

Parents have had a tough year thanks to the combination of the pandemic, working from home, and virtual schooling, and it peaked with an especially stressful holiday season. Considering that they probably felt like they deserved a few moments of peace with their cushion-y, cozy couches, it was probably the worst possible time for The Nugget — and its rabid following — to have gone viral on TikTok.

But that’s exactly what happened when one Nugget group bystander responded to the viral online question: “What’s something that’s ‘not a cult’ but seems like a cult?” TikTok user @pushingastrollerinheals answered by describing Nugget mom groups and explaining that there are multiple Facebook groups, some with thousands of members, dedicated to The Nugget, which has led to a spike in resale prices for the couch. She revealed that some moms replace all their furniture with Nugget couches and even buy couches for children who aren’t old enough to play on them. 

But, it was her reveal about what “the upper echelon” of the Nugget groups — AKA the Nugget After Dark groups — are doing that really caused a stir. “The thing is you photograph your husband sitting on top of the box when it gets delivered — the less clothes the better,” she said. “Literally, someone just posted their husband ass-naked on top of the box.” Nugget After Dark is a place where parents “just talk about banging all over their children’s furniture.” In short? “This sounds like satire, but it isn’t.”

Soon after that video was posted, Nugget Tok took over everyone’s For You Page and the platform welcomed the messiness with open arms. The already existing Nugget cocktail of online drama, community implosion, and unhinged consumerism turned absolutely caustic when it was revealed that people were having sex on these couches. Millions of views later, the Nugget After Dark Facebook moms began to doxx the women on TikTok who had merely said Nugget After Dark exists. Nobody on TikTok had shared screenshots or named names, they simply talked about the existence of the NAD groups — but that didn’t stop the moms from cyber-harassing them.

If you’re still confused as to why people end up having sex on their Nuggets, though, allow me to introduce you to the world of sex furniture. The Nugget’s signature triangle cushion looks a lot like a sex wedge, and it doesn’t take much to position the cushions in ways that mirror the chicest sex couches. As @TheBigWeirdMom, who is one of the creators who introduced TikTok to the Nugget following and was subsequently targeted by moms, said: “If you look it up, it looks a lot like the Liberator furniture.” 

But how does Nugget, the company, feel? Refinery29 reached out and asked if the company was aware of Nugget After Dark; a spokesperson replied that it would rather not comment on the matter. However, they did confirm that, following the virality of Nugget Tok, there was an influx of traffic to their site, though it’s hard to tell whether or not it resulted in increased sales.

That said, @TheBigWeirdMom personally seems to have introduced about 12 million TikTok viewers to the lovely world of Nugget couch mom groups through a series she calls “Mom Group Dumpster Fires,” but also made clear that she respects different groups’ privacy rules: “I get that the Nugget After Dark, that was a group that had a screenshot rule and was not a place that should be shared. And if that’s what you want to do with your time I get it.” So she didn’t post screenshots, nor did she include anyone’s name or likeness; all she did was mention the group’s mere existence. Still, the dumpster fire blazed on.

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It’s all the more strange, though, because Nugget After Dark isn’t exactly the best-kept secret of the parenting world. If you look up Nugget couch groups on Facebook you’ll find “NAD” groups almost instantly — one even has a banner photo of a naked husband posed coyly on The Nugget for easy identification. These groups contain thousands of members. 

But, the urgency to keep NAD groups under wraps isn’t totally unfounded. While talking about the sense of community people find in Facebook mom groups, @TheBigWeirdMom heard that people who learned about Nugget After Dark on TikTok were descending on the Facebook groups in droves. “People came in and they heard ‘sex on a child’s toy’ and they took it to the other end of the spectrum,” she says, “and all of a sudden they wanted to join this NAD group to shame them.” Finally, she tells Refinery29, the groups “were just inundated with new requests to join, and they had to shut down.”

For @TheBigWeirdMom, who considers some of the people she’s met through Facebook parenting groups among her closest friends, this is unfortunate, especially since it can be difficult to be a parent and also prioritize your own needs as well as those of your children. She says that NAD groups actually have “a lot to do with empowerment” and explains, “I wouldn’t call it this freaky fetish thing. There was definitely talk about how to make your sex life better using your Nugget Couch.”

For thousands of moms, then, Facebook groups like Nugget After Dark are safe places to find community and breathe easily knowing everyone around you is under the same pressure to do right by your children — including by buying them the trendiest new piece of play furniture. But, people shouldn’t have to sacrifice their own identities when they become parents. So what if that means having sex on The Nugget?

As @TheBigWeirdMom says, some people have separate Nuggets just for that. In any case, it’s just furniture, and if you paid so much money for it, it only makes sense to give it multiple uses. Shaming parents — especially moms — for this behavior is what’s really damaging. “Usually,  society looks to a mom to assign any type of blame or praise,” says @TheBigWeirdMom. While the moms that descended on TikTok to harass anyone that spoke about NAD might’ve taken things too far, there’s also responding to an excruciating amount of societal pressure. She says she worries about the safe space of Nugget After Dark being, “compromised,” but also admits:  “When you invite 12 million TikTok viewers in, that [safe space] goes away.”

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Things certainly feel momentous today. After four long and grueling years of having Donald Trump as president, so many Americans can’t help but feel like they now have a fresh start, a second chance to do better, an opportunity to try this whole democracy thing one more time. After a long and tense January and as the country and world watched Lady Gaga, J.Lo, Vice President Kamala Harris, and 46th President of the United States Joe Biden take the inauguration stage, a sigh of relief washed over the nation.

These feelings of hope and joy are all good and well, but the past few years have been just as sobering as they have been grueling. It would be a mistake to think today automatically amounts to any change bigger than a change of the guard unless a lot of work is put in to really take this country in a better direction. Luckily, this is the exact energy Senator Bernie Sanders brought to today’s event as he showed he was ready to put in the work. A picture of him wearing a blue mask and fluffy mittens with his legs crossed emerged as the day’s viral meme. He has things to do and places to be. His demeanor is unsentimental, unmoved, and largely unbothered.

Bernie dressed like the inauguration is on his to do list today but ain’t his whole day. pic.twitter.com/wCRyoxU3V2

— Reeezy (@MsReeezy) January 20, 2021

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why is this me at every social setting. pic.twitter.com/cTMITHZmKq

— Brittny Pierre (@sleep2dream) January 20, 2021

Maybe your heart’s not totally into the enthusiasm surrounding today’s inauguration. Like Bernie, maybe you’re thinking about all the work that remains to be done. Senator Sanders looks like he’s reviewing a mental to-do list, his arms holding his things tightly so he doesn’t leave anything behind when he sprints to his next commitment as soon as this is all over. On Twitter, people are projecting an awkward-dad story onto Bernie. His outfit, his posture, his vibe — it’s very no bullshit and down-to-business.

He said some of us have a JOB https://t.co/Jd162baBbU

— 21 Lakyn (@OgLakyn) January 20, 2021

dad at improv show pic.twitter.com/RDjzF1l1xy

— Lily Sullivan (@LilyYily) January 20, 2021

His utilitarian mittens and humble mask have also been declared a “fashion statement” — the mittens were made by Vermont teacher Jen Ellis from repurposed wool and recycled plastic and his coat has been identified as another Vermont original. The memes bestow on him a doting energy you reserve for your favorite history teacher or your even your grandfather. 

He said some of us have a JOB https://t.co/Jd162baBbU

— 21 Lakyn (@OgLakyn) January 20, 2021

If you can believe it, Bernie Sanders was one of last year’s first viral meme moments when he humbly approached the camera asking us once again for our financial support. A year later, after his second run for president, he comes to us again, wearing the exact same coat, as the meme prince of the inauguration.

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We’re just hours away from the inauguration, and while the air is heavy with concern about potential violence from the far-right, the internet is crawling with as much happily chaotic content as usual. On today’s horizon of true randomness, we have some people fighting about Avatar: The Last Airbender and others rejecting Noah Beck’s underwear pictures with cleansing pictures of One Direction stars. Among all the weirdly nostalgic internet chatter, there is also an old picture of Lady Gaga and Joe Biden making the rounds and gathering funny captions in the process. 

your stepmother believes it’s time you make it on your own and i agree pic.twitter.com/9DQqFrGa4W

— beth (@bethbourdon) January 18, 2021

It’s giving me Dennis Quaid in Parent Trap pic.twitter.com/PzfWme84ZK

— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) January 18, 2021

Though Lady Gaga will be one of the headlining acts at Biden’s inauguration tomorrow, the photo that’s been circulating on social media wasn’t taken recently. The picture is actually from a 2017 public service announcement for “It’s On Us” — a campaign launched during the Obama administration aimed at ending sexual assault on campuses. With or without his dark aviator sunglasses, Joe Biden is just Joe Biden. But, here we have Lady Gaga in one of her straightest looks, giving absolute Meredith Blake energy. And it seems like a handful of Twitter’s blue-checks agreed. 

The fact is your father & I are together and it’s about time you got used to it pic.twitter.com/VehyzVIE75

— mhairimcf (@MhairiMcF) January 18, 2021

Today’s best meme has spun the photo and cast Gaga in the role of younger partner to a much older man. The meme gathered some momentum as Twitter’s oral historians began to draw connections to other meme-able celebrity-politician pairings, like Senator Bernie Sanders and Cardi B. 

The fact is your father & I are together and it’s about time you got used to it pic.twitter.com/VehyzVIE75

— mhairimcf (@MhairiMcF) January 18, 2021

After four years with a corrupt bigot in the White House, it’s tempting to conclude that the memeification of this pair as a surrogate dad and stepmom to America is a reminder that things are about to change and someone new is in charge. But more likely, this positively bland, all-white, and unseasoned meme is just a palate cleanser, a transition into the new administration and all the memes that will come with it. Or it could just be another random meme for the pile of chaos that is our lives.

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Six-hundred dollars. I repeat: Six-hundred dollars. After nine months of COVID-19 gone wild, mass unemployment, an inadequate eviction moratorium, zero-rent relief, local business folding, and mass unemployment, all Congress has to offer with its second stimulus package is $600 for our troubles, an amount that is painfully underwhelming. Millions of people have a lot to worry about right now, and that $600 gesture is a scary indicator that our elected officials have no real concept of what those worries are — or how much it costs to live in this country.

And when things get bad, we meme. In fact, this tragedy-shock-meme-repeat cycle is such a big part of how we collectively process things that we’ve come to expect it. When news of the second stimulus bill started to trickle into the internet, many of us kept our eyes peeled for memes to soothe the pain. We were not disappointed.

The stimulus check memes are part of a meme tradition that’s come from spending most of the last year watching the uber-rich take advantage of the pandemic to rent out private islands and grow their wealth like never before. Naturally, a lot of the top stimulus check memes have very strong Eat-the-Rich energy. There’s no shortage of memes that compare House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Arrested Development’s too-rich-to-care Lucille Bluth. The stimulus recalled one of Lucille’s most popular lines from the show: “I mean, it’s a banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?” It works just as well when considering how out-of-touch Congress is with the cost of rent.

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— cathy *acab forever* humes (@CrappyFumes) December 17, 2020

If memes are the internet’s tea leaves, these reveal the way that the stimulus package feels like a joke, and being poor is the punchline — and our leaders are not planning on taking this country’s most vulnerable people’s needs seriously. This particular meme feels like holding back tears of rage and telling those around you that you can’t stop laughing.

congress be like pic.twitter.com/yxNKTLyFYq

— Logan Rees (@JLRees) December 21, 2020

congress be like pic.twitter.com/yxNKTLyFYq

— Logan Rees (@JLRees) December 21, 2020

Others have compared the stimulus to those moments in our childhood when we’re promised great things like prizes or pizza, only to be disappointed. Yes, it’s “free” money, but we all know it’s not what you said it would be.

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The $600 stimulus check pic.twitter.com/dbCZCZREIX

— Joy Kudia (@kudya_not) December 17, 2020

On the bright side, that is one shiny penny. 

stimulus just came in pic.twitter.com/BEgOViy3MU

— Malik🧴 (@AshyMalik) December 21, 2020

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When celebrities first made headlines during the pandemic, it was for being recklessly self-absorbed and out of touch. They were flaunting their wealth and privilege by either migrating to their lavish second homes or taking questionable getaways. Even Kim Kardashian West made the late-quarantine mistake of telling the world she rented out a private island so that her close friends and family could “pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.” Today, however, the reality star is getting attention for a less insensitive reason.

Kardashian West just announced on Twitter that she will give away $500 to 1,000 people through a partnership with Cash App. In order to enter, all you have to do is share your “$cashtag” under the tweet along with the hashtag #KKWHoliday. The tweet went live just over two hours ago and it already has over 99,000 replies.

Hey guys! 2020 has been hard and many are worried about paying rent or putting food on their table- I want to spread the love by sending $500 to 1000 people. Send me your $cashtag below with #KKWHoliday 🎄🎁 #partner pic.twitter.com/aHV4COQUvd

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 21, 2020

After months of waiting for Congress to respond to the needs of the people and put together a second stimulus package, many were shocked to learn that all we were getting was a lousy $600. Six-hundred dollars to make up for a botched pandemic response, no rent-relief, half-assed eviction moratoriums, and mass unemployment. The original $1,200 was hardly enough, but it at least covered rent for many. If you read through Kardashian West’s thread, you’ll find single mothers and homeless youth bearing the stories of their destitution for the chance to receive a couple hundred or even one thousand dollars.

While a thousand payments of $500 each is a negligible amount for someone with private island money, a spokesperson confirmed that Cash App is the financial sponsor for this particular partnership. The bar is so low that celebrities can spend some pocket money and outdo what the government calls a “record-breaking” stimulus package. Had Kim set aside an extra $100,000, 1,000 people would be able to say the government gave them just as much money as Kim Kardashian West. Plus, the Kardashian-stimmy is likelier to hit your bank account long before you get your check from Trump.

This isn’t the first time the rich and famous have partnered with Cash App to put cash in people’s virtual pockets. Just last week, Megan Thee Stallion worked with the mobile payment service to give away $1 million in Bitcoin. For once, #partner is being put to good use, and Cash App is at the forefront of the “digital handout.” Over the course of the pandemic, Cash App’s number of active customers conducting daily transactions has nearly doubled. It’s surely a good thing for people to get no-strings-attached money in a time of so much economic precarity and health hazards.

It seems like tweeting your Cash App or Venmo with the right hashtags is the new version of lining up at food banks or filling out the proper forms in order to collect unemployment. To ensure you receive both the government and celebrity-sponsored stimulus packages, make sure the IRS has your current address, and don’t forget to add #KKWHoliday to your tweet. 

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If you didn't spend the entire year indoors, then you at least spent most of your non-working hours inside this year. In any case, our windows became vitally important — providing us with fresh air, ambient, noise, breezes, and sunlight to help us simulate being outside. The last of these, sunlight, became one of 2020's most significant decor trends. In the absence of huge windows, people turned to all-white or beige interiors that best reflect light. We want light however we can get it. At night we're taken care of by our LED lights, but during the day we want to dot our personal spaces with as many reflective, shiny, sparkly surfaces as possible.

All over Instagram — amid a sea of pastel candles and squiggly rugs — we're seeing all kinds of sparkly goods. This is where things like ashtrays, key trays, candlesticks, and all kinds of high-gloss glassware come in to play. Additionally, we're wearing just as many sparkly things — rings, bracelets, and lipgloss — to add cheer when we look down on our keyboards or look up into a Zoom meeting. Like magpies, we've placed a premium on anything that reflects light.

Any very-online person in your life would appreciate you gifting them something to help bridge their online and IRL lives. For unique (and more affordable) finds, first look to your local thrift shop's kitchenware section where some of the best glassy finds await. But if social distancing or other circumstances stand in your way, read on for some glossy, sparkly finds from across the internet.

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“No Thoughts. Head Empty. Just Vibes” is 2020’s version of “Keep Calm and Carry On.” After spending all year calculating the potentially deadly consequences of things as simple as grocery shopping and going to the office — and the last few months pondering the country’s past, present, and future by questioning the legitimacy of the state and protesting the prison industrial complex — we are burned out. Why overwhelm our brains with anything else? Why not make things easy on ourselves? 

That’s exactly what’s happening across the internet as young people, from budding middle-schoolers to disaffected twenty-somethings, are “emptying their heads” and reclaiming the word “bimbo.” On TikTok specifically, the prospect of prioritizing beauty over brains is being explored in earnest, from himbo worship to bimbofication fantasies to a full-on community of self-described “New Age Bimbos” — the last of which are encouraging everyone to embrace their inner bimbo by spreading the gospel of good looks and kindness.

Chrissy Chlapecka, @chrissychlapecka on TikTok, is probably one of the platform’s most-visible bimbos. Proud to be a ditzy blonde, Chlapecka didn’t think of herself as a bimbo per se, until one day when her comments section was flooded with affirmations and praises calling her one. Now she embraces it: “The bimbo is somebody who radiates confidence, is comfortable in themself, and doesn’t give a fuck about what anyone says to them.” She adds that today’s bimbos are also expanding and updating our established understanding of what bimbos stand for: “The bimbo is pro-choice, pro-sex work, pro-BLM and she, he, or they likes to look pretty. We like to look pretty while we’re doing it.”

In the past, “bimbo” was an insult: It described a woman who was all looks and no brains. Bimbos were morally reprehensible because they cared too much about money and sold their bodies. But, today, bimbos come in all shapes and sizes: TikTok is full of himbos, lesbian himbos, thembos, and bimbos crossed with every imaginable subculture, from anime bimbos to groovy bimbos. Bella, also known as @bimbogoth, describes her brand of bimbo as having, “the personality of a Valley Girl with the exterior of a motorcycle,” and gets inspiration from goth bombshells like Elvira and Jenniffer Tilley’s Tiffany Valentine from Chucky’s Child’s Play franchise.

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it’s my diagnosis, treatment is juicy couture and pink glitter

♬ original sound – 💖princess💖

@bimbogoth

what is a goth bimbo? #gimbo #fyp

♬ original sound rosemary’s baby

From Marilyn Monroe to Anna Nicole Smith, bimbos have historically gotten the dirty word treatment because anything that challenged the narrow cis-hetero ideal was automatically dismissed as worthless and disposable. “These guys who hate on us are literally just sad that a girl who looks like us will never fuck them,” Bella explains.

More recently, there has been a more insidious way of undermining the bimbo aesthetic and lifestyle. Starting in the ‘10s, after decades of booby blondes, supermodels, and reality TV stars, there was a hard cultural pivot to a new feminine aesthetic: whether it was Manic Pixie Dream Girls and girl bosses, it was all about “smart” women with “depth.” Women with brown hair cut their bangs too short and wanted to take over the world, be president, run companies, and aggressively and unerotically show nipples on Instagram. Even though this aesthetic was billed as being empowering, it proved to be as oppressive as every other feminine ideal — not least because it was another way of perpetuating the white supremacist patriarchy. 

Syrena, also known as @fauxrich, is TikTok’s premier bimbo historian, and explains it this way: “Men and misogyny have taken that feminism and spun it into this cool-girl, ‘I’m-not-like-other-girls” stereotype to now please men. No matter what we do, no matter what our feminism is, every single thing is often spun to please men.” New Age Bimbos choose to be true to themselves over any socially imposed ideal.

@oneoftwotrucks

becoming my true form

♬ B1MB0F1CAT10N – GMB

Syrena has an associate’s degree in math and is currently working as a caretaker while earning her bachelor’s degree, with the goal of becoming a cosmetic injector. Despite her education and aspirations, she gets judged for her tastes and looks on a daily basis: “I’ve even had TAs hit on me and tell me they can help me get a better grade when I have an A in that class. Don’t come near me!” 

Syrena also corrects the assumption that bimbos are unintelligent — it’s just that our culture’s idea of intelligence is rooted in patriarchal, racist, and ableist norms. Syrena says that being a bimbo, then, is “not a protest against intelligence, it’s kind of a protest against academia and how elitist and classist it is.” Chrissy concurs: “It’s rejecting what men specifically think intelligence is.” That’s why when New Age Bimbos ask something like: “Why can’t we just print more money?” They aren’t only challenging institutional conventions, they are also challenging our very understanding of what it means to be intelligent. They know they might be misinterpreted, but they’re still going to question societal norms in a way that’s authentic to them.

TikTok’s New Age Bimbos know they are part of a long lineage of glamorous misunderstood femmes. Much like famed bimbos of the past, they’re an autodidactic community of art and pop culture obsessives, and they have a critical understanding of how the media has captured womanhood through the ages, which helps them better understand why they’re treated the way they are today. “It is all self-taught,” Chrissy says about contextualizing how bimbos are perceived. “It really is by studying the internet and what’s going on in Instagram and TikTok. I’m so aware of all that when something comes up or is to happen I always think, How can I educate myself on this?”

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“Bimbofication” made its internet debut in the early aughts as a controversial kink that eroticized the transition from smart and modest to air-headed and hot. Then, misogynists took a piece of erotic bimbo fan art and flipped it to mourn the loss of so-called “smart, modest” women. It’s the familiar incel cry: Society is spiraling out of control now that hot women have the power to reject them. While bimbofication is no longer anchored in the fetish scene, people are once again craving bimbofication, only this time for themselves.

On Twitter and Instagram memes are declaring people’s intentions to turn into hotter, smooth-brained versions of themselves. On TikTok, people document their bimbofication with ecstasy, undoubtedly a reflection, too, of the fact that, at a time when so many things are making us feel bad, one reliable way to feel good is to look good. They invite us to throw yourself into transforming your body into the picture of your own idea of beauty.

What bimbos know for sure is that both intelligence and attractiveness are flimsy constructs that are regularly wielded against femmes, people of color, and neurodivergent people. The cracks in this country’s foundations are showing and we’re learning once again that the rewards of conforming to the status quo are temporary and precarious at best. When Ariana Grande said, “no shit / math class / never was good” at the end of 34+35, it was a nod to bimbos everywhere, a reminder that, no, you really never will need to use your high school math ever again — but you will always cherish your makeup skills. The bimbo community is growing and growing, then, because a lot of people are slowly realizing that it feels nice to have your boobs pushed up by a corset top, to put your hair up in the perfect high ponytail, simple and smooth as your brain.

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