Michelle Santiago Cortés's Recent Articles

This year, I’ve spent more money than I feel comfortable admitting on making my life and myself more beautiful than ever. I’ve always found inspiration

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Somos Latine

It’s About Time We Talk About Rosalía & Latinidad

Catalonian songstress Rosalía Vila Tobello, who has graced the covers of Elle, W, and Vogue Mexico, grew up in the landlocked Spanish town of Sant Esteve

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Food & Drinks

How Oysters Became The It Food Of Re-Emergence Summer

Earlier this week, a heat wave blazing through Vancouver killed millions of mussels, snails, and clams; they were boiled alive in their shells. Meanwhile,

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Tech

How Does Brittany Broski Spend Her Time Online? Tumblr & SpongeBob

Welcome to Internet Diaries, a monthly interview series that asks the internet’s favorite people where and how they spend their time online. What are

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Wellness

Why Every Hot Girl Has IBS… Or Anemia… Or Depression

Now is the time to be as hot as humanly possible. There was a lot we couldn’t access during lockdown, like travel, dates, and family. But, the few things

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Pride 2021

The Best Part Of Pride Is Making Fun Of Rainbow Capitalism

Every June, queer people across the internet — especially on Twitter and, more recently, TikTok — engage in an important Pride tradition: dunking on th

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Living

Why Everyone You Know Suddenly Has Main Character Syndrome

In psychology, Main Character Syndrome is described as being… well, it actually doesn’t exist as a diagnosable mental illness, at least not in the Amer

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Culture

Cicadas Are Everywhere. So Are Cicada Memes.

Cicadas are a once-in-a-17-year treat for inhabitants of the eastern part of the U.S. After almost two decades of living underground, billions of cicadas p

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Instagram

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: How Memes Became A Cry For Help

After a year-plus inside, the time for “coming out” is finally here — though it’s not as clean a slate as we expected, nor is it as explosive a beg

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Tech

The “Best” Memes Of 2021, So Far

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TikTok

The Word Cheugy Is Already Cheugy

There is, once again, a trendy term going viral. A term that is dividing generations and genders. A term that groups a number of food, fashion, decor, and

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Living

Be Real — Has WFH Turned You Into A Lunchtime Masturbator?

Of all the changes we’ve experienced this year, the blending of home and workspace is probably the most physically, emotionally, and philosophically over

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Food & Drinks

What’s The Difference Between A Dip, A Sauce, & A Condiment...

Go to any burger joint or hot dog stand and you’ll find a collection of bottles, often corralled onto a tray, usually including ketchup, mustard, rel

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TikTok

Small Businesses Are Thriving On Social Media & That’s Maki...

In February, a small Latina-owned business that specializes in scented lip glosses and scrubs went viral on TikTok for an audio clip that began, “I l

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Tech

Pfizer vs. Moderna Memes: The Gag Is Vaccine Elitism Shouldn’t Exist

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve had memes to explain, critique, and immortalize every moment and hot take. We’ve shared memes about how coro

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Erotica Guide

Fanfiction Is Cringey & Beautiful — No Wonder It’s Having A Moment

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 wit

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Food & Drinks

Does McDonald’s Sprite Taste Spicy? A Very Serious Investigation

Today on Twitter, the words “McDonald’s Sprite” and “He’s dead” trended in unison, like some twisted waltz between blood-sworn enemies forced t

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Tech

Songs To Kill Royals To: In Praise Of The Oddly Specific Playlist

Around this time last year, we found ourselves spending more time with screens than ever before. We played tons of video games and watched lots of TikTok,

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Living

Are You Really Missing Tumblr Porn Right Now? You’re Not Alone

It’s 2014 and Tumblr rules your virtual life. Scrolling through the seas of fandoms and subcultures, you witness everything from surreal fights over Hitl

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Work & Money

How A Year Of Crumbs Made For The Best Stimulus Memes Yet

Has money ever been as elastic and elusive a concept as it’s seemed to be over the last year? Since March 2020, the onset of the pandemic has meant that

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LGBTQ+

The Super Straights Are Definitely Not Okay

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

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Tech

Goodbye, Pandemic. Hello, Panera Bread… Or Panda Express...

When the pandemic first started, we were quick with the jokes and the memes, but we still called the pandemic by its name. A year later, and the jokes and

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TikTok

These Cute & Tiny Toys Have Taken Over TikTok. The Reason Why Is ...

Toys — whether store-bought or home-made — colored our childhoods; we woke up to them in the morning, shampooed them in the bathtub, brushed their hair

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Gen Z

The Only Thing Worse Than The Laugh-Cry Emoji Is Worrying About T...

It’s a startling scene: Very online millennials, known for being loud, proud and often viciously gatekeeper-y about internet culture, are now invested in

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TikTok

The Accidental Sex Couch Tearing Facebook Mom Groups Apart

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 h

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Living

Today Was The Day Bernie Sanders Became President — Of Memes

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

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Tech

Why Is This Old Photo Of Lady Gaga & Joe Biden Now A Meme?

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 crawlin

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