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Arbys bought Buffalo Wild Wings, so heres what a combined menu would look like

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On Tuesday it was announced that Arby's owner Roark Capital will acquire(opens in a new tab) Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.4 billion (or roughly(opens in a new tab) 162,271,805 orders of BWW House Samplers).

Per Reuters(opens in a new tab), though the wings restaurant will become property of Arby's, it'll still operate on its own.

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We think this is a huge mistake.

Consider the disturbing menu possibilities a marriage of Arby's meats and BWW wings might afford us.

Our suggestions for this menu full of abominations below:

A half-pound Beef 'N Cheddar sandwich dipped in Bourbon Honey Mustard sauce, rolled in Desert Heat seasoning and deep fried
An entire smoked brisket coated in Blazin' hot sauce and served whole on a bed of deep-fried Cheddar Cheese Curds
Potato cakes drenched in Wild sauce
Beer-battered roast beef tacos
An Arby's House Sampler, featuring 12 classic Roast Beef sandwiches stacked in a pyramid
A Crispy Chicken Farmhouse Salad dressed with Hot BBQ sauce
Boneless Wings coated in Cheddar Cheese sauce
A Corned Beef 'N Cheese Slider cut up into pieces and sprinkled over Buffalo Mac & Cheese
A Cheese Curd Bacon Burger with a Pizza Slider speared on top
Every Arby's slider stacked in a tower and adhered to each another with smears of Parmesan Garlic sauce
The pastry shell of an Apple Turnover, filled with the B-Dubs Blender shake flavor of your choice
A large Ultimate Chocolate Shake blended with a slice of Chocolate Fudge Cake and drizzled over a plate of Dessert Nachos
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No one cares about 99% of the photos you take. Not even you.
No one cares about 99% of the photos you take. Not even you.
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For our summer vacation, my wife drove us hell-for-leather between National Parks, driven by the urge to collect every stamp in her Parks Passport(Opens in a new tab). We eagerly snapped up the new National Parks Geek merch(Opens in a new tab). Our dog was sworn in as a #BarkRanger(Opens in a new tab). And I was deputized photographer, urged to get shots of thousand-year-old petroglyphs(Opens in a new tab) and cave dwellings(Opens in a new tab), not to mention the 200 million-year-old tree trunks(Opens in a new tab).
We came home. My wife pored over her passport and stamps. The magnets and decals went on fridges and cars. The dog wore his Bark Ranger badge around the neighborhood with beaming pride. And my photos? We haven’t looked through them yet. I doubt we ever will. If we really need to see that petroglyph or that tree again, it would be faster to Google them -- where we'd find a more pleasingly professional shot.
If you’re anything like me, here’s the exact number of times in any given year that you pore over your Apple Photos, Google Photos or similar library: approximately never. Who has the time? Despite the encouragement those companies give us to store all our images with them, it sits there as ones and zeros -- billions of merely theoretical photos expending massive amounts of energy on cloud servers, costing each of us a few bucks every month.
Or worse, the photos are consigned to death row on a single vulnerable hard drive, awaiting its inevitable failure.
Sure, you might dip into the archive for a minute or two every now and then. Wearing your Instagram or Facebook hats, you pluck an image from obscurity, elevating them to the relative stardom of a few Likes. In the social archives, at least, you might look back at them more often. But you're lucky if this elevation happens to more than one in a hundred snaps.
The average picture you take will fade into forever, and it’s high time we got real about this. We live in an age of digital abundance, one that has devalued photos more than anything. The Snapchat-and-Stories generation treats them as expendable and ephemeral, but Gen Xers are no better -- we just fool ourselves into thinking we're preserving history in these dusty, pricy digital archives. But what exactly are we preserving, and for whom?
Will our descendants, beset on all sides by ever more media, even bother to look? If we don't, why would they?
The rise and fall of the photo

The OG Instagram: Four unidentified women show off their inexpensive Kodak Brownie cameras in the 1900s. Credit: SSPL via Getty Images

We've seen a half-century decline in the value of photographs. From the first ever taken in 1822 through the launch of the one-dollar Kodak Brownie in 1900, they were unique, one of a kind, priceless objects. The Brownie brought us the snapshot, but these were still pieces of treasure: expensive to develop, taken relatively rarely, mounted in carefully guarded albums that nevertheless shed like leaves over the decades. I have, for example, just two precious photographs each of my English and Italian grandfathers.
The abundant ephemerality of photos started to sneak up on us in 1963, with the first Polaroid camera you could load with a “packfilm,” 100 color exposures strong. You pointed, shot, and peeled each one apart to develop it. A decade later, you didn’t even need to peel. (You also never needed to shake a Polaroid picture; shaking could in fact damage the exposure. Thanks a lot, Outkast.)

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The digital camera brought its own kind of limitations. To cover the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, I bought a bulky piece of plastic that looked like a pair of binoculars. It took about 10 blotchy shots before needing a recharge. Would this replace film? I was skeptical.
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Five years later, I toted a palm-size digital camera to Japan, where a mobile media messaging company tried to convince me that sending small pixelated photos over your phone was the future. I was skeptical.
I had no idea of the size of the approaching deluge, no sense that the coming decades would make me so photographically rich -- and so attention-poor.
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Top strip, 1 photo wide: All the digital photos I took in 1997. Middle strip, 13 photos wide: 2007. Bottom strip, 25 photos wide: 2017. Credit: chris taylor

Apple Photos, the heir to iPhoto, is organized chronologically; you zoom out and get a multicolored, pixelated view of how many snaps you took (or uploaded from) each year. When I look at my library, it’s easy to see that the vast majority of the 25,332 shots and 950 videos it stores, more than 100 GB of data, hail from the last decade.
A kind of Cambrian explosion(Opens in a new tab) of life took place in the late 2000s, after the launch of the iPhone. On top of that, you can see an increase in duplicates in the 2010s -- a sure sign that I stopped pruning my photographic garden. It has gone to seed, a forgotten forest of clones. (iOS, at least, is soon to be smart enough to cull the clones.)
Every so often in this forest you see the bright flowering of a well-tended photo, saved to the roll from Instagram -- the clones that saw the sunlight.
Even without duplicates, this explosion looks set to continue. Multiple estimates have placed the number of digital photos we take per year north of one trillion since 2015(Opens in a new tab), triple the number in 2010. One estimate from Info Trends(Opens in a new tab) put the number in 2017 at 1.2 trillion -- or 160 photos for everyone alive on the planet, year in, year out -- and says it's increasing by 100 billion a year.
It's hard to imagine history will care about even 1 billion of them. What of the rest, then? I'm all for historical preservation, but are we doomed to keep piling up trillions of unseen photos every year, like so many boxes in an ever-expanding warehouse, on the off-chance that one of them contains the Ark of the Covenant?(Opens in a new tab)

We still care about Einstein's vacation snaps (here, the famous physicist and his wife visit the Petrified Forest). Yours? Not so much. Credit: national parks service

There are plenty of clone photos on display outdoors at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. In front of the painted desert, black and white shots from the 1880s are shown side by side with color photos of the same site from the 1980s. The point is to show that the landscape hasn't changed, because the park has prevented people from running off with the long-dead, mineral-rich trees.
There's another, more subtle message at work: We're all taking the same damn photo here, people, and we have done for nearly 140 years. What's one more picture at this spot? Maybe we should give it a rest, and fully enjoy being here in this moment.
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The train pulled into the station in north eastern France and I hauled my rucksack and suitcase out of the carriage and into the night air. I was alone for the first time in a very long time and I couldn't wait for someone to put an end to my discomfort.
I was 21 years old. For my first two decades on earth, I'd been almost constantly surrounded by people. I'd grown up in a close-knit family and we relished each other's company. At university, I'd lived in a hectic halls followed by a big house with loads of friends. The summer before I left, I'd spent nearly every day with my boyfriend. Alone time was a foreign language I didn't speak.
Not long after my arrival at the station, I stood in the accommodation that I was going to be living in while I taught English at a French high school for my study abroad year of university. I won't lie — it was not a space that screamed Lovely Place To Be Alone. Inside a faded salmon pink building on the grounds of the suburban school was my new flat. Empty of any furniture except for one lone hospital bed that had been wheeled in from the nurse's office, the mood inside the flat can only really be described as nervously awaiting my demise in the horror movie that was now my life.
For my first few weeks, my nights were spent alone in my most-likely-haunted flat watching badly dubbed Friends episodes on French TV (in the absence of any IRL friends at that point). The entire time, I was constantly fighting off an intense malaise that wouldn't shift. I couldn't hack this whole being alone business so I became hellbent on spending as much time away from my Hill House-esque home as humanly possible. Mercifully, I made new friends and crashed on their sofas and floors after staying up late smoking and drinking cheap red wine. Deep down, though, I felt constantly overstimulated and running on empty, and it never occurred to me that my depleted energy levels had anything to do with the dearth of alone time in my schedule.

Me, pictured at the very start of my year in France back in 2009. Credit: rachel thompson

The life I'd left behind had been difficult for the past year. I'd had a few big friendship breakups and I wasn't ready to admit to myself that my shitty behaviour had been the common element in each fallout. I was on a hamster wheel of denial, running away from uncomfortable truths and self-awareness. It caught up with me in the end, though.
I felt better rested, less anxious, and more like the Rachel I used to know.
One day, I showed up at my friends' apartment after work. As we sat around the table chatting, one friend bobbed her head around the door and said "I just wanted to say hi to you before I head to my room because I need some alone time." Hearing a statement like that today wouldn't make me bat a single eyelid. But back then, hearing my older and very mature friend say this and sound so self-assured tugged a thread within me. Should I actually try this newfangled concept they call solitude, I thought to myself? All I can say now is: Bless my poor, inexperienced heart.
A few days later, I took a notebook to the café in the centre of town and ordered myself a coffee. I was trying on this whole aloneness thing like a new outfit. Pen in hand, I returned to this spot day in, day out and met with the thoughts I'd been running from for months on end. Writing it all down gave me an occupation that made me feel less awkward about sitting alone in a public place and a prop to avoid conversations with strangers. Of course, I did get the odd "are you writing me a love letter" comment from strange men. But I just kept going because I knew I was cleaning out the cobwebs from my mind. What I realised was this: I had behaved really badly over the past year and I wanted to be a better version of myself. New thoughts started to occur to me about my own self-worth. Like, I urgently needed to break up with my boyfriend who wasn't treating me nicely and, let's face it, hadn't done from day dot. One rather crucial realisation, too, was the fact that all this alone time was starting to make me feel better in many ways. I felt better rested, less anxious, and more like the Rachel I used to know.

Enjoying some time on a friend's terrace at the end of my year abroad. Credit: shannon kephart

Around about the same time, one of my friends told me our socialising was getting a bit much for her schedule. It stung, but I also knew how often we'd been hanging out — it was a lot. Now that I was a certified member of the Time Alone Club, I told myself I'd have a week of staying in. I sent my estranged boyfriend a message asking him if I could speak to him. He responded wanting to know the "overall theme of the conversation," which...lol. "I think you know," I replied.
I was finding my way back to my old self, my real self.
"Can we make this quick, my battery is about to die and I'm on my way to the pub," he said briskly upon answering the phone. "Right ok," I said back, somewhat thrown at the request for haste. "This is hard but I think we need to break up. You haven't been very nice to me. In fact you've barely spoken to me since I got here." I kept talking for some time, breaking down as I uttered the words, but eventually the silence at the other end of the line told me the phone call had ended. His battery had died. He never called me back.
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I grew more self-reliant that year and didn't just learn to tolerate alone time, but love it. It took me many more years to come to the realisation that I'm actually an introvert and that downtime is something I need in order to function as a human. But we live and learn! 11 years after that dramatic year, I live alone and love every blissful minute of it.
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I sometimes look back on the pages of those notebooks that helped me figure out my shit that year. It's like flipping through the working out in a school kid's exercise book. That alone time helped me get to where I am now. I don't know what I'd have done without it.
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You want something snappy, something catchy -- maybe something with a bit of alliteration. Something that will be memorable.
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This was clearly the thought process British baking company Warburtons had recently when they decided to launch a Christmas crumpet competition.
They had their celebrity -- former McFly star Tom Fletcher was on board -- and they had their hashtag: #crumpetcreations(opens in a new tab). They were ready to roll.

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There was just one small issue, though.
As you can see from that Instagram post, the competition hashtag has now been changed to #WarburtonsChristmasCrumpets(opens in a new tab).
And there was a very good reason for this.
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Yep: the hashtag #crumpetcreations was already very much in use. A member of the furry fandom and owner of the account crumpetcreations(opens in a new tab) had already been using it for quite some time.
For anyone who's never heard of "furries", here's a bit of background:
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And here's what a recent glimpse of the #crumpetcreations(opens in a new tab) hashtag looks like:

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This guy, in particular, clearly has little time for crumpets:

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In the end, Warburtons made the swift decision to swap to a different hashtag.
"The world of social media is a wonderful and varied place but this shows just how easy it is to get wrong!" a spokesperson told (opens in a new tab)The Independent(opens in a new tab).
"We will be doing a bit more research next time! We've changed the hashtag and the competition is still on #warburtonschristmascrumpets(opens in a new tab)."

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This year the word is "perseverance", defined by the dictionary as a "continued effort to do or achieve something, even when this is difficult or takes a long time." According to a press release sent to Mashable, the word has been looked up 243,000 times globally in 2021.
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Perseverance was chosen by the dictionary for a couple of reasons. On the one hand it follows on from their word of the year for 2020(Opens in a new tab), "quarantine", drawing attention to the continued global struggle brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, not to mention other looming threats like climate change, with has been thrown into even starker relief recently via a huge report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and speeches and commitments made during COP26.
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Meanwhile, the word is also the name of NASA's Perseverance rover, the little robot which landed on Mars back in February and is currently trundling around the red planet looking for signs of microbial life.
"Just as it takes perseverance to land a rover on Mars, it takes perseverance to face the challenges and disruption to our lives from COVID-19, climate disasters, political instability and conflict," said Wendalyn Nichols, Cambridge Dictionary publishing manager. "We appreciated that connection, and we think Cambridge Dictionary users do, too."
Well, we don't know about appreciated, but perseverance certainly seems fitting.
Sorry Adele, youve officially become a TikTok trend
Sorry Adele, youve officially become a TikTok trend
It's been a wild week on the internet with the release of Spotify's annual Wrapped experience, and even TikTok was not immune to the Spotify Wrapped discourse.
Of course, that wasn't the only thing trending on TikTok, not with Adele's 2015 song "Water Under the Bridge" going viral upon the singer's latest album drop. Surprisingly, it was also a big week for reality TV stars with both Wendy Ostefo and Kylie Jenner having a moment on the app.
Adele not making music for TikTok is water under the bridge
Three weeks ago Adele's anticipated album 30 came out. In an interview with Zane Lowe(Opens in a new tab), the British songstress pointedly said she didn't make this album for TikTok. "If everyone is making music for the TikTok, who is making music for my generation, who is making the the music for my peers? I will gladly take that job," she said.
But it turns out Adele had a TikTok song in her arsenal. "Water Under the Bridge," a track off her 2015 album 25, went viral on the app this week.
Last week, @ramsthulani(Opens in a new tab) tweeted, "How come Adele never has any back up dancers?"(Opens in a new tab) In response, @motivatefenty replied with an edit of Megan Thee Stallion(Opens in a new tab) and her dancers grooving to "Water Under the Bridge." Of course, Megan Thee Stallion's dance has since become a TikTok trend. So far, over 57,000 videos have been made to Adele's "Water Under the Bridge."
What appears to be the first "Water Under the Bridge" video on TikTok was posted by @treclements on Nov. 29(Opens in a new tab) and featured the text "my audition to be Adele's back-up dancer." The caption reads, "saw this on Twitter and have been hollering ever since." Clements's video has over 4.2 million views and almost 950,000 likes.
Another example of the trend is Julian Burzynski's TikTok posted on Dec. 1(Opens in a new tab) that has garnered over 3.5 million views and 121,000 likes.

Look how fun this Megan Thee Stallion choreography is! Credit: TikTok / julianburzynski

The trend is a perfect combination of a beloved Adele classic and Megan Thee Stallion's high-energy moves, so needless to say, it took the app by storm.
The dance is so fun that for the first time ever, I am considering learning a TikTok dance.
Are you a Nicki fan?
Another popular trend this week pulls the audio of an interview between Michael Rapport and Wendy Ostefo of Real Housewives of Potomac fame on The Wendy Williams Show. During the interview, Rapport asked Ostefo a simple question: "Are you a Nicki [Minaj] fan?" To which Ostefo replied, "What? Am I a Nicki fan? Pull up in the Sri Lanka."

In an attempt to prove that she's a Nicki fan, Ostefo gets the lyrics to the rapper's iconic "Monster" verse wrong. The actual bars are, "Pull up in the monster / automobile gangsta with a bad bitch from Sri Lanka."
The audio has produced over 320,000 TikToks and counting. You might expect that TikTokkers are using this audio to make jokes about being a poser, and some are, but most creators are using the snippet to show that they are, in fact, something — so there is a confusing discrepancy between the audio and the trend.
In one popular video posted by @ozzythedoxie(Opens in a new tab), a wiener dog is told to sit. The text reads, "Are you a good boy?" Then, "Am I a good bOy??" Followed by the dog sitting. The TikTok has over 1.2 million likes. In another clip that's more true to the audio, @probably.drew(Opens in a new tab) writes "do you skate?," "what? do i skate?," "i wear thrasher." Then, @probably.drew tries to do a skate trick and falls. The video has over 1.7 million views.
Stormi, you look like Mommy, baby
Ostefo isn't the only reality TV star to have a viral TikTok sound this week. An audio of Kylie Jenner saying "Stormi, you look just like Mommy, baby," has taken over my FYP.
The sound has over 88,000 videos made to it and was first posted on TikTok back in September by @stormiibabii(Opens in a new tab) in a video with photos of Stormi dressed like her mom Kylie at the 2019 Met Gala. The original video has 17.2 million views and 2.3 million likes.
The trend has since evolved into users sharing what things their future children will do that's just like them. It's a classic TikTok trend where users roast themselves and, as always, the more relatable the roasts are, the funnier the content. One example is @notkaelynwilkins' video(Opens in a new tab) that reads, "When my future daughter starts googling her symptoms on WebMD and sends herself into a panic attack." Another TikTok from @user272637386(Opens in a new tab) says, "when my future daughter is so socially awkward she can't form a sentence around people she doesn't know."

A little too relatable for my taste. Credit: TikTok / user272637386

Spotify Wrapped
The first week of December is coming to a close, and 'tis the season to analyze our annual Spotify Wrapped results. On Dec. 1, Wrapped conquered social media, and people were quick to take to Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok to react to their top songs and artists.
Before this year's Spotify Wrapped dropped, users on TikTok were expressing their anticipation with audio edits of Ariana Grande's "Can You Stay Up All Night." When the song cuts out, users then show the song or artist that ruined their Wrapped. For example, @jae.tpwk(Opens in a new tab) made a TikTok that shows "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets Movie soundtrack on their list.

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I wouldn't want the Muppets soundtrack coming up in my Spotify Wrapped either. Credit: TikTok / jae.tpwk

Two additional audios used in response to Wrapped were English TV personality Gemma Collins saying "I am not ashamed to admit it, it's hell in there. It's horror. You have to be a certain type of person to survive" and an audio posted by @thereal_becca(Opens in a new tab) that goes, "fun fact about me is that no guy has ever met me and said you're not like other girls because I am exactly like other girls."
TikTokkers used Collins's quote(Opens in a new tab) to react to having artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple, and Elliott Smith in their top artists. People who had popular artists with primarily female fanbases like Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, and BTS used the second audio.
And if you see Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" at the top of my Wrapped next year, no you didn't ♥️.
Katy Perry, former chandelier, changed into a hamburger at the Met Gala
Katy Perry, former chandelier, changed into a hamburger at the Met Gala
At the Met Gala, Lady Gaga wasn't the only person with more than one look.
On Monday night, pop star Katy Perry graced the pink carpet at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art wearing a chandelier on her frame.
Designed by Moschino's Jeremy Scott, it was already an impressive-looking if not highly impractical outfit. Yes, even the lights switched on.
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Well, turns out Perry had another trick up her sleeve, switching outfits mid-event. Perry's second act was a hamburger costume, complete with a lettuce dress and a toothpick hat.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Katy Perry attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/MG19/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Credit: Getty Images for The Met Museum/

It's only one of the most sought-after high fashion events in the world, but OK. Here's a video of her changing into the outfit in what appears to be the Met bathrooms — and yes, that's Jennifer Lopez wandering past.
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You can't say the outfit has exactly gone down well with everyone. But it's the kind of thing you'd expect from Perry, to say the least — among the pop star's most outrageous outfits(Opens in a new tab), her colossal winged outfit from the 2018 Met Gala is a (somewhat less cartoonish) highlight.
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What is even fashion anymore?

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Don't get too excited, but Tumblr may be taking steps to open the platform up to explicit content again. After a 2018 ban led to a notoriously devastating exodus from the microblogging site, users were tickled to notice a few interesting turns of phrase in a platform update.
A post from Tumblr's staff blog(Opens in a new tab) on Sept. 26 introduced a new feature called "Community Labels," which they hope will allow "everyone on Tumblr to be able to fully express themselves while also having control over what they encounter on their dashboards."
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Bloggers can label themes of a post as falling under any of three buckets: drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and what Tumblr is calling "sexual themes," which is content that "contains sexually suggestive subject matter, such as erotic writing or imagery."

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The announcement gave two examples of content that should be labeled as having sexual themes: "Fanart of your favorite ship engaging with each other in...a very private moment" and "A graphic 50 Shades of Grey edit."
Once labeled, content will either be hidden, blurred, or displayed normally according to each user’s preferences.
The end goal, says the platform, is "to create a more open Tumblr... a richer, more nuanced Tumblr experience" and that these updates are their "first step in that direction."
The announcement noted that "porn bots are still not welcome" and pointedly explained that it was imperative for the app to "abide by App Store rules... to make sure that mature content is only accessible to people who are old enough and have opted in to view that type of content."
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But users on Tumblr are already heralding the return of the Tumblr of yore:
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Still, others are cautioning against getting too hopeful:
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It's true that celebration may be premature, since there is a huge gap between "erotic imagery" and full-blown porn. But the Community Labels update does seem like a positive indication that Tumblr may be finding a middle-ground that serves both their community and their business.
Cunnilingus on camera is changing. So are attitudes towards womens pleasure.
Cunnilingus on camera is changing. So are attitudes towards womens pleasure.
Have you found yourself transfixed when your internet boyfriend is about to go down on the big screen? Or, maybe you’ve wondered how the actors make it look so real? Well, you're certainly not alone.
Don’t Worry Darling, a film directed by Olivia Wilde premieres today, features a scene where Harry Styles simulates oral sex on Florence Pugh(Opens in a new tab). In the original trailer, it showed Alice (Pugh) with her head back in the throes of ecstasy, lying back on the dining table, while the top of Jack's head (Styles) is seen between her legs.
Wilde has already come under some scrutiny over this scene. In an interview with AP News(Opens in a new tab), she admitted that people were already upset with her for including it. She later challenged the criticism in a future interview(Opens in a new tab). "Female pleasure, the best versions of it that you see nowadays, are in queer films," Wilde said. "Why are we more comfortable with female pleasure when it’s two women on film? In hetero sex scenes in film, the focus on men as the recipients of pleasure is almost ubiquitous." Pugh, on the other hand, responded to the constant media focus on the scene, stating in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar(Opens in a new tab) that: "the movie was bigger than that." She explained her frustration by saying: "When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it. It’s not why I’m in this industry."

When it comes to viewing cunnilingus on film, people still question why we're seeing it on screen, even when it’s filmed through the female gaze. In Mary, Queen of Scots, Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden stirred up controversy over the historical accuracy of oral sex, leading to viewers questioning its authenticity. Questions arose like: would a Queen really have oral sex performed on her to save her chastity? (short answer is yes(Opens in a new tab)). When director Josie Rourke was asked why she focused on the face of Ronan, instead of on Lowden’s performance of oral sex, she explained(Opens in a new tab): "to get what feels like an authentic female orgasm on screen? We need to see her face to do that."
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It’s not the first time we’ve seen our favourite actors perform oral sex. And it’s certainly not the first time the internet has lost its mind about seeing it played out either. Similar things happened when Adam Driver sang into Marion Cotillard in Annette(Opens in a new tab), and when Ryan Gosling dove face first into Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine, earning the film an 18 rating.(Opens in a new tab)
As we're starting to see more cunnilingus scenes on our screens, what does it mean to society and wider culture when we see characters eating pussy on the big screen? How does it affect our views on female-focused pleasure?
What goes into staging a cunnilingus scene?
Intimacy coordinator Dr. Jessica Steinrock, PhD, who runs Intimacy Director and Coordinators Incorporated(Opens in a new tab), tells Mashable that staging sex scenes takes a large amount of choreography. Requiring welfare checks and safety measures to make sure that everything is enthusiastically consented to throughout the entire filming process.
"We’re also there as actor advocates," she says. "I talk with the actors give [to] them a safe space and ask questions on boundaries so that their needs are met away from some of the really strong power dynamics that are within Hollywood." She tells me that organisations like SAG AFTRA(Opens in a new tab) provide accessible protections for actors performing intimate scenes and, in 2020, they quite literally protected actors on set with their policy changes.
Part of the work Steinrock undertakes is making sure that there is no contact between the genitals of actors, whilst simultaneously helping each member of the cast and crew tell the story.
"It's almost the exact same type of illusion we use to make it look like someone's mouth is in contact with someone else's vulva."
"We as intimacy coordinators essentially have three jobs," she explains. "First off, we liaise between departments and work with costume and camera, and the director and the actors, we make sure that everybody knows what's going on with the intimate scene before we get on set that day."
Steinrock goes on to explain that they’re there to answer questions that might feel embarrassing. "Sometimes those questions are deeply personal. And so, having someone in a job, whose role is to sit that person down, have a conversation with them, saying 'hey, how are you feeling about this? What are your questions about the actual physicalities of this masking technique that we're going to be doing?'" she says.
The third part of her role is to choreograph the scene. She works with the actors and camera departments to give the illusion of closeness in the same way a stunt coordinator might stage a punch. "It's almost the exact same type of illusion we use to make it look like someone's mouth is in contact with someone else's vulva," she explains.
Why do people react negatively to cunnilingus?
The cultural reaction to kneeling at the altar, pussy worship, lip service, muff diving, rug munching, head, licking out, or cunnilingus has changed over the years. In classic TV shows like The Sopranos, (which first aired in 1999), the act is portrayed as emasculating. One scene from the show, Junior Soprano (Dominic Chianese) says, “They think if you suck pussy you'll suck anything”. sigh
This school of thought is still present today. "Sucking pussy" has been seen as a submissive and unmanly thing to do by celebrities like DJ Khalid(Opens in a new tab), who has stated that he had never gone down on his wife, he repeated “I don’t do that.” Later in the interview, he explains that he doesn’t give head — despite still expecting his partner to go down on him — because he sees himself as the king (whatever that means), and so performing oral sex would confuse the hierarchy of his relationship. “It’s different rules for men," he explains (and I use that term lightly).
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But it’s not just celebrities who don't believe in oral sex reciprocity. In a now archived post on Reddit(Opens in a new tab), one user stated that "real men should not eat pussy" because "it causes the woman to subconsciously lose respect for you and see you as her bitch." Yikes. But, despite this outburst, the comment sections on this, and other posts(Opens in a new tab), are quick to question what’s being said, from calling out ‘red flag behaviour’ to labelling the users behind these posts as ‘incels’.
This is important because there is still a sizeable pleasure deficit when it comes to pleasure between mixed-sex couples. Heterosexual men are reported to orgasm 95 percent of the time they are intimate, whereas heterosexual women only come 65 percent of the time, according to a study on orgasm frequency(Opens in a new tab). This is called the orgasm gap(Opens in a new tab) and if we ever want to close it we need more representation of what sex looks like in a real world setting — and, according to the same study, more oral sex.
"It may come as zero surprise that men are much less likely than women to give oral sex in a mixed-sex relationship."
As it stands, only 18.4 percent(Opens in a new tab) of women are able to come from penetrative sex alone, this number rises up to 60 percent when clitoral stimulation and penetration are combined. Oral sex is enjoyed by 90 percent(Opens in a new tab) of women and it’s easy to see why when 78 percent reported an orgasm in at least one of their most recent oral experiences.
It may come as zero surprise that men are much less likely than women to give oral sex in a mixed-sex relationship. In fact, in a study conducted for the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality(Opens in a new tab), only 44 percent of women reported receiving oral sex, compared with 63 percent of men. This is despite there being no gender differences regarding the amount of pleasure it gave them. It really is different rules, huh?
Is our perception of pleasure changing?
It certainly feels like attitudes towards cunnilingus are changing, but are they actually? The answer is a complicated one. "The story we're telling has definitely become a little bit more pleasure-centric from scripts I was getting in my very first days. That said, what I have noticed as indicative of a positive trend is the care of actors," Steinrock says.
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She explains that using a safeguarding-conscious approach with actors, and the production series as a whole, naturally leads to nuanced storytelling because of how safe the setting for these scenes is. In her experience, being able to have these conversations and set these boundaries leads to realistic pleasure-based performances.
Of course, some veteran actors aren't all that keen on the new way of doing things. Game of Thrones alumnus Sean Bean recently said(Opens in a new tab) that intimacy coordinators "spoil the spontaneity." More important than spontaneity, however, is the safety of actors on set and it’s clear that the strict-yet-necessary restrictions regarding consent, boundaries, and touching are being welcomed by actors, directors, and production companies as a whole.
There should be space for all kinds of sex on our screens. We’re not here to yuck someone’s yum. Media is a form of entertainment, so why not show a variety of pornographic and authentic representations. Maybe it’s time to start having more open and honest discussions around sex means better literacy when it comes to differentiating porn from real sex(Opens in a new tab), which means we can begin to step away from performance and into pleasure when we hit the sheets.
Opening our horizons to new and more expansive representation is a must. Especially because there is a direct link between sex misinformation and sexual violence(Opens in a new tab). One way that we can do this as a society is to examine the "traditional" roles within relationships and debunk misogynistic views, like sluttiness and easiness, which are often attributed to women (not men)(Opens in a new tab) who engage in casual sex frequently (amongst other completely normal things). This ‘sexual double standard’ has damaging implications where women’s safety and perceptions of sexual deviance(Opens in a new tab) (read: autonomy) are concerned.
"A lot of the time seeing sex in movies is people’s first interaction and touchpoint for how intimacy works. I'd love for us as a society to get more comfortable talking about pleasure and intimacy in broader ways. I think we can use media to really support those conversations by showing pleasure in a wider breadth," says Steinrock. But what needs to take place for that to happen?
How the media can influence future depictions of female pleasure.
Sex education should be our first line of defence when intervening on things like sexual violence, teen pregnancy and reproductive knowledge — it’s not often that we look to it to balance pleasure equity, despite being a well-proven antidote(Opens in a new tab). In the meantime, variety across other touchpoints like porn and mainstream media can help to diversify the lens we view sex through.
Ness Cooper(Opens in a new tab), a sex and relationship expert and clinical sexologist, tells Mashable that while watching more real depictions of cunnilingus is sure to make most women feel more empowered, there is still a sizeable gap in what we’re seeing and how we’re interpreting it. "In the past, there's been a lot of negativity around female pleasure sex scenes, often highlighting pain, which has meant that many sexual acts that women may enjoy have become stigmatised and shamed," she explains. "This means that individuals can struggle more when talking about pleasure, and when they do decide to explore it, they can be unnecessarily worried or stressed about it, making the experience less enjoyable. But bringing more awareness to how pleasurable these acts can be through various media can help reduce stigma, shame, and barriers even around sexual discrepancies," she says.
While we’re seeing more sex positive depictions of female pleasure on our screens, there’s still a long way to go. Hopefully, we’re moving in the right direction.
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