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February 12, 2020
Colbert Weighs in on Bernie and Mocks Trump With Song Lyrics (Video)
On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert poked fun at Donald Trump, first with some song lyrics mocking Trump’s recent statements about Roger Stone, and then with a shout out to Bernie Sanders.
First, Colbert noted that earlier in the day, when Trump was hosting the president of Ecuador, he started ranting about Roger Stone’s legal troubles, and also who he thinks should have been punished instead of his former adviser. “Where’s Comey? What’s happening to McCabe? What’s happening to Lisa and Peter Strzok?” Trump demanded while speaking to reporters.
Cue Colbert, who after playing video of the weird rant slipped into his Trump impression with some song lyrics. “Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” Colbert-as-Trump asked. “What’s new, Pussycat? Who wrote the book of love? That guys should be in jail, the book of love guy. Who put the bomp in the bomp sha bomp sha bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?”
Colbert then played footage of Trump talking about the New Hampshire primary and his summation of apparent front runner Bernie Sanders as someone whose message people like.
Colbert then played footage of Bernie articulating his message by saying “we are going to unite together and defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.”
“He’s right! A lot of people do like that message,” Colbert quipped.
See the clip below:
TONIGHT: Trump is feelin' the Bern! #LSSC pic.twitter.com/YrDyp7iisR
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) February 13, 2020
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Ex-Details Editor Admits Magazine Doctored Quotes, Faked a Byline During Drug-Fueled Tenure
In his new memoir and in a subsequent interview with the New York Times, the former editor-in-chief of Details Magazine admits to years of chaotic leadership that included hiding an addiction to opioids, the publication of articles with doctored quotations, and at least one instance of a column with a faked byline.
The story is laid out in a Times article by Katherine Rosman that also details what she calls “chaos” throughout Details’ parent company, magazine publishing giant Condé Nast.
Peres was the last editor of Details; Condé Nast shut it down completely in 2015 and Peres was let go after 15 years with the company. His memoir, “As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction,” was published this week.
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Peres, who says he got clean in 2007, writes in the book that at the peak of his addiction he was taking upwards of 60 Vicodins a day. He describes picking pills up from filthy restroom floors, traveling to Mexico or Los Angeles on Condé Nast’s dime to procure drugs, and a pattern of absenteeism and unreliability in the workplace.
Peres, Rosman writes, also essentially tricked one of his assistants into providing Condé Nast’s travel office with “a 30-day itinerary to Italy and Australia that he could show to doctors as evidence that he needed to fill prescriptions in advance.”
Speaking to the Times, Peres also admits to one especially notable ethical lapse. In 2002, Details published a column purportedly written by author Kurt Andersen, co-founder of spy magazine. Peres boasted about hiring Andersen in an editor’s note and Details even published what was billed as a short interview with Andersen.
None of that was true, however. Andersen tells the Times he first learned of “his” article after his wife saw it and asked him about it. “As well as the terrible piece attributed to me, there was an even worse, horrible, ‘Hey dude, it’s just gossip’ quote from me,” he told the Times. “It was mortifying. Not just mortifying. Grotesque.”
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Speaking to the Times, Peres suggests he had nothing to do with the publication of the article attributed to Andersen; another former Details staffer who edited the piece denies writing it. Andersen didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to Rosman, the Times has reviewed a copy of an email sent by a fired employee to the Condé Nast executive who oversaw publishing, including details, during Peres’ tenure. According to the times, the email describes a pattern of unprofessional conduct such as “frequent absences” and “admissions about pill-taking.”
The executive, who no longer works for Condé Nast, told the Times she does not remember seeing the email.
Representatives for Condé Nast didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from TheWrap, but a spokesperson for the company told the Times, “Since the time chronicled in Dan’s book, our company and our industry have evolved significantly, and we can’t comment on the way our company was run under prior leadership.”
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‘The Masked Singer': Miss Monster on Why She Picked the Miss Monster Costume – and Now Regrets It
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday’s “The Masked Singer.”)
Season 1 of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” was won by rapper T-Pain, who surprised viewers when he was revealed to be The Monster at the very end of the singing competition’s first finale. Ahead of the show’s Season 3 launch, fans found out that a feminine version of the costume had been made for a new contestant — who was eliminated tonight and revealed to be Grammy Award winner Chaka Khan.
And while the show heavily promoted a connection between Monster and Miss Monster before she was booted, Khan (real name Yvette Marie Stevens) told TheWrap that T-Pain actually had nothing to do with her costume selection.
“Well, they gave me a choice of two monsters and I picked the one that I thought might be the cutest, I guess. It appealed to kids, that’s why I liked it,” she said, adding: “There was no connection with me and Monster. The only connection for me is (the costume) looked childish, whimsical.”
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And actually, if she could go back and do it again, Khan says she wouldn’t be Miss Monster at all. “I’d have changed the costume,” the “I Feel for You” singer said. “Once I got into that it was really heavy and really hot and really not comfortable.”
Wardrobe grievances aside, Khan told us she enjoyed her “Masked Singer” experience and what it offered her.
“It’s about doing the whole thing in a different way,” she said. “I thought that was clever and when I first say it I thought, ‘What a good idea, they couldn’t guess who it is at all.’ The other part was that anybody could do it, from baseball players to football players to whatever. I thought that was clever.”
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Before Khan was eliminated, judges Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke managed to correctly guess her identity based on her iconic voice — which she said would have been too hard to disguise.
“Actually, in the end I did not disguise my voice, I just sang the songs because I said it would be too much work for me to do that,” she said. “And I wanted to do it just clear and pure. I decided that in the end and that’s what I did.”
“The Masked Singer” airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Fox.
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‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals Another Celebrity Contestant: And Miss Monster Is… (Video)
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday’s episode of “The Masked Singer.”)
“The Masked Singer” aired its third episode of its third season Wednesday, which ended with the elimination and subsequent unmasking of a Season 3 contestant: Miss Monster.
Tonight’s Valentine’s Day-themed episode saw the four remaining members of Group A — Miss Monster, Kangaroo, Turtle and White Tiger — compete to see who will move on in this season’s tournament-style rounds.
After they performed, it was time for panelists Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke, along with guest judge Leah Remini and the studio audience, to choose the “weakest” performer for elimination.
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They picked Miss Monster, who had performed Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me,” and unmasked her to reveal Grammy Award-winning singer Chaka Khan. Before Khan was unveiled, Scherzinger and Thicke correctly guessed her identity, but the other panelists threw out these other incorrect names: Reba McEntire, Queen Latifah and Mary Wilson.
As Fox previously revealed, this season’s format will be changing “slightly” from the first two installments of “The Masked Singer.”
The six contestants in Group B — Banana, Elephant, Kitty, Taco, Mouse and Frog — will be introduced next week and they will be whittled down to three contestants over three episodes, just as those in Group A were. The show will then do the same for Group C. The final 9 contestants from these three groups will then come together and battle it out the rest of the season for the golden mask trophy.
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Along with the now-eliminated Miss Monster, Llama (Drew Carey) and Robot (Lil Wayne), the full Season 3 lineup of masked contestants includes Banana, Frog, Mouse, Kangaroo, White Tiger, Turtle, Astronaut, Swan, Kitty, Bear, Elephant, Rhino, T-Rex, Night Angel and Taco. Between those 18 contestants they’ve “amassed a combined 69 Grammy Award nominations, 88 Gold records, 11 Super Bowl appearances, three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, more than 160 tattoos and one title in the Guinness Book of World Records,” according to Fox.
Watch Miss Monster’s performance in the video above and her unmasking via the clip below.
“The Masked Singer” airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Fox.
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‘Aladdin’ Live-Action Remake Gets a Sequel From Disney
After grossing over $1 billion worldwide last summer, Disney’s remake of their animated film “Aladdin” will get a theatrically released sequel, multiple individuals with knowledge of the project confirmed to TheWrap.
The sequel will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Ehrich of Rideback, who produced the live-action film starring Mena Massoud as Aladdin and Will Smith as the powerful Genie he frees from a magic lamp. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend last year and grossed $355 million domestically and $1.05 billion worldwide, making it one of a record seven billion-dollar hits that Disney released in 2019.
While it has not been determined whether remake director Guy Ritchie will return for the sequel, the script will be an entirely new story written by John Gatins and Andrea Berloff. Gatins, who wrote the 2012 Robert Zemeckis/Denzel Washington film “Flight,” most recently worked on the script for Lionsgate’s 2018 film adaptation of “Power Rangers.” Berloff, who received an Oscar nomination as co-writer of the 2015 film “Straight Outta Compton,” most recently made her directorial debut with last summer’s crime film “The Kitchen,” which she also wrote.
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Disney’s plans to remake their classic animated films in live-action and CGI form have been very lucrative since the series began with the Tim Burton remake of “Alice in Wonderland” in 2010. Four of those remakes — “Alice,” “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King” — have grossed over $1 billion worldwide, with a fifth nearly joining them as Jon Favreau’s 2016 adaptation of “The Jungle Book” grossed $966 million. That film also has a sequel in development with Favreau set to return as director, though the timetable for that project is up in the air as Favreau is currently working on season 2 of the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.”
Gatins is repped by UTA while Berloff is repped by CAA and Management 360. The sequel was first reported by Variety.
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‘The Nest': Jude Law on Telling a Tale of a Family Torn Apart by Greed (Video)
One of the most unnerving films at Sundance was Sean Durkin’s “The Nest,” a tale of a family torn apart by one man’s greed and reckless ambition. Durkin spoke with TheWrap about the film’s origins alongside stars Jude Law, Oona Roche, and Charlie Shotwell.
“I spent a lot of my childhood between America and England. I think I have this clear, tonal difference between the two places…and I always thought [England] would be a good setting for a story,” Durkin told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman.
Law plays Rory, the overambitious English businessman who emigrated to America to start a family and now wants to take his family back to London in the belief that he can take all he learned in the U.S. and make himself into a multi-millionaire. In his self-absorbed pride, he spends more money than he has on an extravagant house and luxury items, and the lavish surroundings he’s given himself quickly turn into a gilded cage that shatters the contented relationship Rory once had with his family.
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“There were so many threads in this family I could relate to,” Law said. “When you look at a family and the interactions of a family, you can see them warring and fighting but you can see huge amounts of love and they go hand in hand.”
“[Rory] takes the family on quite an adventure and stresses them quite considerably, but always with a good intention. So trying to make sure the different motives were clear was what drew me to the character but also what I enjoyed most about playing the character.”
Watch more from the cast of “The Nest” in the clip above.
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Jeremy Roenick Fired From NBC Sports 2 Months After Inappropriate Joke About Co-Worker
Jeremy Roenick was fired from NBC Sports, two months after he was suspended for making inappropriate comments about a co-worker.
“I’m very disappointed and angry today I will not be returning to NBC,” Roenick said in a video posted on his Twitter account Wednesday. “I’m also grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to share my love, my passion and my knowledge of the game with millions of people, millions of fans.”
An NBC Sports spokesperson confirmed that Roenick was let go. In December, Roenick, who serves as an NHL analyst for NBC Sports, was suspended indefinitely without pay “making inappropriate comments about his co-workers,” an NBC Sports spokesperson told The Wrap at that time. He had been with NBC since 2010.
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Roenick was a guest on a Dec. 19 episode of Barstool Sports’ Spittin’ Chiclets podcast and joked about wanting to have a threesome with his wife and Kathryn Tappen, another NBC Sports host. “I was the king of Portugal,” Roenick said about a recent vacation he took with his wife and Tappen, who are good friends. “Bro, when you walk into every place and you have two blond bombshells on each side and nobody, I’m telling you.”
Roenick described a day when the three of them were out by the pool and were asked by another vacationer about “the situation” between all of them. “I play it off like we’re going to bed together every night, the three of us,” Roenick said. “If it really came to fruition, that would really be good, but it’s never going to happen.”
He apologized for his comments a few weeks later: “I want to take this opportunity to apologize to NBC Sports, Kathryn Tappen, Patrick Sharp, Anson Carter for some insensitive comments that I made on a recent podcast,” he said on in a video posted on his Twitter account. “I never meant to offend anyone and I definitely want too far and for that I deeply regret it.”
Roenick’s decades-long career in the NHL included stints with the Chicago Blackhawks, Arizona Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks, and Los Angeles Kings. He is a nine-time NHL All-Star.
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‘Charm City Kings’ Crew Hope Coming of Age Story Brings ‘Mentorship’ to Marginalized Kids (Video)
“Charm City Kings” may be set in Baltimore, but the writers, director and stars of the film say it’s a universal coming of age story that they hope can provide guidance to kids from marginalized communities around the world.
“This story in Baltimore is not just a Baltimore story,” Puerto Rican director Angel Manuel Soto told TheWrap at Sundance. “There is a Baltimore in every state. Puerto Rico is its own Baltimore in the middle of the Caribbean. This is the life that a lot of people face in marginalized communities.”
“Charm City Kings” is the story of Mouse (Jahi Di’Allo Winston), who desperately wants to join Baltimore’s infamous Midnight Clique, a fearless group of dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax (Meek Mill), takes the 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
The team behind the film, including stars Winston and William Catlett, writer Sherman Payne and producers Caleeb Pinkett and Clarence Hammond, said the story of “Charm City Kings” made them think more deeply about their own lives. Catlett in particular said he got the audition for the movie the day his sister passed away.
“It’s just how life works. This is a story about time and life. My character Rivers, he’s racing against time. When you throw the bike back, you need precision and time,” Catlett said. “I’m racing against time to save this young man’s life. I think the film will bring a lot of mentorship out of it, and our relationship outside of the screen and onscreen was just a beautiful thing to do and to honor time and say thank you to time, not devalue time, because time is precious.”
The young star of the film Winston said he got to spend some time with some of the real life kids in Baltimore who inspired the film and for whom this world of dirt bike riding provides an escape from some of the other problems in their community. Though he was quick to say he did not learn to ride the way the real life kids did.
“They didn’t even want me thinking about a bike. As far as the kids in Baltimore. I did meet some kids. It was great to have the imagery of it, just because we were filming in the environment, so it was great to have that first person sort of reference,” Winston said. “But I felt like all the visual research was really in my own life, knowing my cousins that come from similar communities, and being able to base a lot of Mouse and his mindset off of that. I saw a commonality there and a familiarity. It was great to be able to add flesh and life to that.”
Watch the interview with the cast and crew of “Charm City Kings” above. Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the film in theaters on April 17.
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‘The French Dispatch’ Trailer: Wes Anderson Lampoons The New Yorker in Latest Film (Video)
The first trailer for Wes Anderson’s 10th feature, “The French Dispatch,” reveals that the film is about a fictional American magazine in a French city, but it’s inspired by and loaded with references to the history of The New Yorker magazine.
Bill Murray plays the editor of the magazine The French Dispatch, Arthur Howitzer, Jr., a character inspired by The New Yorker’s founding editor Harold Ross. He leads a gigantic cast that also includes Jeffrey Wright, playing a version of James Baldwin mixed with A.J. Liebling, Adrien Brody, as an art dealer modeled on Lord Duveen and Owen Wilson as a writer inspired by Joseph Mitchell.
Benicio del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Mathieu Amalric and Stephen Park round out the principal cast. But the film also features appearances by (deep breath) Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Cécile de France, Guillaume Gallienne, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Revolori, Rupert Friend, Henry Winkler, Bob Balaban, Hippolyte Girardot and Angelica Huston.
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“The French Dispatch,” or the full title “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun,” brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional, 20th-century French city. Anderson wrote and directed the film from a story he developed with Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Hugo Guinness.
Anderson, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson are serving as producers while Searchlight Pictures will distribute the film produced and co-financed by Indian Paintbrush.
“The French Dispatch” opens in theaters on July 24, 2020. Check out the full trailer above.
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Dictionary.com Defines ‘Megxit,’ ‘VSCO Girl,’ ‘Baby Yoda’ and More in Latest Round of Slang Additions
Dictionary.com added a bunch of new words to its slang section Wednesday morning, including “Megxit,” “VSCO girl,” “Karen,” “Baby Yoda” and more.
Some of these — like “VSCO girl” — are entirely from the internet while others — “hold my beer” — have been around a while. The creation and proliferation of terms within marginalized communities and their eventual appropriation by the masses is of interest to editors at Dictionary.com, which can even be seen in the inclusion of “Karen” and “Becky” in the latest spate of additions. (A “Karen,” per the site, is “an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged white woman,” while a “Becky” is “a stereotype for a white woman, especially one who is unaware or takes advantage of her social privilege.”)
Others capture pop culture phenomena, including “Megxit” — and amalgamation of the Meghan Markle’s first name and exit — and “Baby Yoda,” a popular character from “The Mandalorian.”
Senior research editor John Kelly takes a lot of time to determine the origin of each term and trace its path through various corridors of Twitter and online communities as it winds its way toward a ubiquitous relevance.
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“We like to step back and develop a big list of all the ones we’ve updated over the past couple of months, and then we like to highlight some that are particularly interesting juicy notable or important in some way,” he explained of the process, though he was careful to note the addition of each term is “case-by-case.”
“You never know when a slang term is going to go viral,” he said, highlighting the need for his team of digital editors, engineers and coordinators to stay vigilant. “You never know when a new meme’s going to take over Twitter. You never know when a term is going to explode on TikTok, on Instagram, on Twitter.”
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The Dictionary.com team, he says, has a Slack channel devoted just to discussing these terms and monitoring anything that could spawn them, from the Oscars, which produced #OscarsSoWhite, to a Billie Eilish single, which caused a spike in searches for “Xannie.”
Dictionary.com has an entry for #OscarsSoWhite, but not yet for Xannie. As Kelly says, the site is still a researched dictionary, not a crowdsourced platform like UrbanDictionary.com. That’s what makes it unique: editors identify the need for a researched, but accessible, definition, then work to make sure it’s factual and available for consumers.
So, what’s Kelly’s favorite of this latest round of additions?
“Big mood,” for sure.
Here’s the full list of the latest round of new slang terms:
Megxit : Megxit is a slang term for the decision of couple Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to step back from their senior roles in the British royal family.
Hype House : Hype House is a collective of young social media content creators and influencers who are especially popular on the video app TikTok. It is also the name of the mansion in Los Angeles the group uses and some members live in.
Karen : Karen is a mocking slang term for an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged white woman. Especially as featured in memes, Karen is generally stereotyped as having a blonde bob haircut, asking to speak to retail and restaurant managers to voice complaints or make demands, and being a nagging, often divorced mother from Generation X.
self-partnered: Self-partnered is an alternative for the word single as a relationship status. It was popularized by Emma Watson in a November 2019 interview with Vogue.
OK boomer : OK boomer is a viral internet slang phrase used, often in a humorous or ironic manner, to call out or dismiss out-of-touch or close-minded opinions associated with the baby boomer generation and older people more generally.
and I oop: And I oop is a viral phrase from a video by drag queen Jasmine Masters. It has since become stereotyped as a catchphrase of VSCO girls. And I oop or I oop can be playfully used to express shock, surprise, or embarrassment.
Baby Yoda: Baby Yoda is the popular name for a character known as the Child in the Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian. He is a member of the same species as the beloved Star Wars character, Yoda. Baby Yoda’s adorable, lovable appearance helped make the character a widespread meme online.
Becky : Becky is a stereotype for a white woman, especially one who is unaware or takes advantage of her social privilege. Becky is also used more generally to mock a young white woman as “basic.”
big mood: Online, people post big mood as a way to react to or describe something they find relatable or resonant in some way. Big mood can at once capture a feeling at a specific moment but also comment on a broader sentiment about life in general. Yeah, existential stuff..Big mood is also often posted with a joking, judgmental, cheerful, or ironic tone in reaction and in response to content that is variously seen as quirky, genuine, dramatic, or ridiculous.
cancel culture: Cancel culture refers to the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after that they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. Cancel culture is generally discussed as being performed on social media in the form of group shaming.
Cheetle: Cheetle is the brand name for the powdery residue that gets on your fingertips while eating the savory cheese snack, Cheetos®.
chef’s kiss : Chef’s kiss is a gesture and expression meant to show something is perfect or excellent. The gesture is made by pinching the fingers and thumb of one hand together (often in an OK sign), kissing them, and then tossing them dramatically away from the lips. Its tone can be sincere or ironic.
hold my beer: Hold my beer is an expression joked about being said before an unthinking person does something dangerous or stupid. On the internet, hold my beer is used to make fun of decisions (that are seen to be bad) made by public figures or companies.
manther: A manther is the male version of a cougar, or a middle-aged woman who has the hots for younger men. Manthers are older men who pursue partners significantly younger than them.
porch pirate: a thief who takes packages left outside doors by couriers:
Rapinoeing: Rapinoeing is a viral victory pose named after professional soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe. It involves raising and outstretching the arms at an angle in a confident, joyful display.
sksksk: Sksksk is an interjection used to convey surprise, happiness, and other intense emotions. It’s stereotyped as an overused expression of VSCO girls on social media.
sportsball: The goalie dribbles into the outfield for a touchdown! Sportsball is a mildly critical or humorous term used by people who admit they don’t know or care about sports. Sports fans sometimes use it, too, as a playful way to refer to sports they like.
VSCO girl: VSCO girl is a term, generally used as an insult, for a young, usually white woman who posts trendy pictures of herself edited on the app VSCO. Stereotypes of the VSCO girl include wearing scrunchies and Birkenstock sandals, drinking out of Hydro Flask reusable water canisters, saying sksksk and I oop, and generally seeking attention online.
zoomer: A zoomer is an informal term for a member of Generation Z, born in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It can be used with a neutral, mocking, or ironic tone.
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