Your Instagram Comments Need Some Spice
Instagram is one of the most anxiety-inducing social media apps of today. For many young adults, posting on the platform involves plenty of time spent…
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Yik Yak Is on Its Way Back
You’ve just finished your class in Forum and now you have 40 minutes before your class in Kern. What to do with such an awkward…
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Romance is Dead. And the Internet is Holding the Gun.
Dating in the 21st century sucks, especially in college. Traditional dating and relationships seem to have been replaced by hookup culture and the situationship epidemic,…
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The Halley and Sophia TikTok Drama: Everything You Need to Know
Here we go again. Another influencer and their significant other broke up, but ANOTHER influencer slid into the ex’s Instagram DMs not even a month…
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You Just Fell For The Most Successful Marketing Scheme Ever
Happy holidays everyone! Well, it might as well be a holiday. On Wednesday, November 29th, the ninth annual Spotify Wrapped dropped. Spotify users everywhere look…
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Is It Self-Care to Post Your Break Up Everywhere?
We all enter our revenge era when a break up ends messy or we are disappointed one too many times by the same average guy. …
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Opinion: Politicizing Children for Spectacle
On Penn State’s campus, sporadic demonstrations by various groups are not uncommon. However, one in particular stands out. They can be seen holding signs that…
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Opinion: #VacationBodies… turkey weekend edition
Thanksgiving — a chance for students to take time to enjoy themselves, find comfort in family and focus on the feast ahead. But for some,…
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Meet VALLEY’s Fall 2023 Beauty & Health Section Opener: Liv Hungate
Liv Hungate had a childhood filled with liquid color. Now, as a fourth-year double majoring in theater studies and psychology, she fondly recalls her mom’s…
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Deinfluencing Beauty
Sometimes you see that new product and you have to have it. Social media makes it seem that if you buy that $40 cleanser or…
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What’s Happening to Our Newspapers?
Newspapers are known as black, white and “read” all over. They have been a staple, yet timeless form of medium for hundreds of years. However,…
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To Ghost… Or Be Ghosted
Ghosting: “the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.” Whether it was a platonic friendship…
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Bad Branding in the Age of Social Media
Have you ever checked the comments on a viral TikTok video and wondered why there are random comments from big brands and companies such as…
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TikTok’s Possible Ban
Floating around the internet the past couple of weeks is talk about the potential ban of the app TikTok. The app, that about 150 million…
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Stop Calling Women You Dislike “Pick-Me Girls”
On TikTok, several new terms and trends have come to life ever since the social media platform took over the world. One of these terms…
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Instagram is a Dating App
Picture yourself at a friend’s wedding in the next five years. We know, we can’t believe we’re at that age either. The newlywed couple is…
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Classiest Responses to the Internet’s New Alpha (Fe)male
Everybody has heard of Andrew Tate — podcaster, influencer and the internet’s resident alpha male. A few weeks ago, Tate was banned from social media…
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The Spring Break Curse
The bees are buzzing and the days are getting longer as we finally feel spring on the horizon. We trade our boots for sandals and…
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Opinion: Where is the Black Alix Earle?
Who’s Alix Earle? I want to be Alix Earle. These questions and statements have been asked recently as the Monmouth County New Jersey girl turned…
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TED Talk vs. TikTok: Adopting Mindful Habits
Do you ever catch yourself mindlessly scrolling through TikTok? Although social media has become an integral part of our lives, we still find ourselves spending…
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