From the performative male to basic girl -- what compels us to distance from "conformity" and design eccentricity? Follow our writer Erin, as she investigates our desires for individualism and why we run away from the labels of being "basic". In a world swirling with labels, tropes, and types, we are just dying to compartmentalise and label everything and anything. Mainstream music? Basic. Like matcha? Basic. Enjoy romance books? Take a guess what I’m going to say next… Wikipedia defines...

“Brainrot” is the state of addictive consumption of low-quality, mindless content. Join Erin as this article explores what it is, its...