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Late last year, the second season of HBO’s hit teen drama, Euphoria, was launched. With it, over sixteen million viewers tuned in, making it the streaming service’s second most-watched show ever. It falls behind only Game of Thrones, which, despite its final season ensuring the autonomous repression of it from …
Before starting college, I had never been much of a coffee drinker. Perhaps I’d enjoy the odd mocha, or some syrup-laden frothy concoction, but the majority of café visits consisted of a hot chocolate order (always with marshmallows and whipped cream.) So it was a little surprising how quickly my …
In 2018, the term ‘gaslighting’ was voted one of the year’s most popular words by the Oxford University Press. Since, its usage has only soared, with a continuous increase in Google searches and a general, noticeable infiltration into common online discourse. It would be difficult to read through the comment …
News is just in: Ireland is officially the leading Wordle playing country in the world. According to the online gaming database, Solitaired, thirteen per cent of the Irish population google the vocabulary-based puzzle each month, putting us ahead of other English-speaking nations such as Britain and Australia. We might not …
Snapchat was launched in 2011, and with it the first widespread, mainstream use of AR filters. Suddenly teenagers all across the globe were posing with dog ears and swapping their faces with their friends: the first time in history that we as humans were given such a quick and simple …
Over the past ten years, there has been a marked increase in the popularity of true crime. Across platforms such as YouTube, Netflix and Spotify, a splurge of documentaries and podcasts have cropped up, videos pertaining to which easily garnering views in the millions. The appeal? Analysts have vastly attributed …
Whether you’re planning a trip away or are braving the possibilities of heat on home soil, for many of us, the anticipation of summer also comes with the desire to add some tone to otherwise unexposed body parts. Perhaps you’ve ran through one too many home workouts, you require an …
‘We used to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe,’ a red-haired woman tells nearby passengers as Dublin’s industrial northside chugs behind us. Is this true? A quick Google tells you that yes, twenty years ago, Northern Ireland did have one of the highest incidences of live …
Positive mind, positive life, positive vibes. Be you. Protect your aura, don’t let anyone bring you down. Everyone with an Instagram account is all too familiar with the plethora of positivity quotes that tend to appear like ingratiating, pastel-coloured reminders throughout your story-tapping. Often printed in a gentle, flowery script …
In 2020, the number of searches made over the concept of manifestation skyrocketed, with its immense, newfound popularity eventually even lending itself to meme-ification. A once- niche, New Age movement, it had been swiftly swept up by the mainstream. As of now, the hashtag “manifesting” has almost fifteen billion views …