Bradley Cooper took a selfie at the 2014 Oscars. Ellen DeGeneres posted it. The internet exploded. 43.74 million people watched it happen live — the Academy Awards’ largest audience in 14 years. No one knew it at the time, but monoculture died in 2014 — or at least peaked that…
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We Fought a Revolution to Escape The Royal Family, Yet Here We Are
Every few weeks, the British royal family drops a new episode, and America collectively cancels its plans. Not officially, of course—we act like we don’t care. We roll our eyes, scroll past the headlines, maybe even mutter something about “taxpayer-funded melodrama.” But next thing you know, you’re deep in a…