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Women watch the "Heated Rivalry" romance unfold. Art by Basil Allen. Over the past few months, “Heated Rivalry” fever has swept the nation. The HBO show focuses on the sexual, and later romantic, relationship between two professional hockey players, Ilya Rosanov and Shane Hollander. Unfortunately for everyone, the real heated rivalry was not playing out on the ice, it was happening online.  This conversation was inevitable, considering the show centered sex, queerness and wor

Three identical men stare at their phones in Warhol-esque colors. Art by Addie Martin. With the beginning of a new year, many have gathered the motivation to reduce their screen time by limiting social media use.  This resolution will certainly be a rewarding but difficult challenge for all who take it on, given that the age of short-form content has brought about new ways of keeping users on the hook. Scrolling through hundreds of videos in one sitting is not just addictive

Happy people enjoy 2016 on a palm-tree-lined beach. Art by Basil Allen. Imagine the following: “Lush Life” by Zara Larsson is blasting through the car’s speakers as you stick your head out of the sunroof to greet the pink and orange sunrise, the warm breeze brushing against your skin as the car rushes past rows of palm trees on an afternoon in Los Angeles. That is what the new internet trend “bring back 2016” is all about. But what is it specifically about the year 2016 that