fads • May 14 2018

These Class of 2018 graduation stories are so inspiring, they’ll have you rolling around crying

Aborted at age 4, died in Pearl Harbor, graduate at 18

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There's nothing so inspiring as grad season. You can basically smell the soon-to-be-broken dreams in the air! And the joy everyone feels getting that one watch they've always coveted — as though anyone can tell analog time, loool — is contagious. I'd sit in a hot gymnasium full of people I barely talked to over and over again if it meant experiencing the rush of taking a picture with my high school mascot for my mom again. Seriously. I'm not just saying that because she reads all my content!

Are Bermuda shorts…cool again?! An investigation

It might be time to go back to middle school

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by Una Dabiero

Most of us respond to the utterance of "Bermuda shorts" with a VISCERAL reaction. If I am forced to spend even a millisecond thinking about the rhinestoned, baby blue Bermudas I wore to slip past my middle school dress code, I immediately shut down. Like, total blackout. I don't need to think about my developmental…

Here are all those online games you loved as a kid, plus how you can still play

So you don’t have to waste your time getting viruses on your school MacBook

by Una Dabiero

One of the best things about the 2000s was the fact that we were all just given unfettered access to the internet. There were no apps to track screen time or child blockers. We were all just allowed to run free, like internet ponies. The cute, small kind. And, yeah it was awesome. But at…

We spoke to the brave souls who pierced their clits and I’m kegeling in terror reading this

‘Bumpy car rides can be fun’

by Ari Bines

The first time I modified something on my body with a piercing, it was as simple as a hole through cartilage. I’d considered getting my nipples pierced, but the winter in New York is far too cold for that mess.Something I was DEFINITELY never brave enough to do was getting my clit pierced. As terrified…