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Notes from Brainbuffering

Short essays on quizzes, internet slang, and why we cannot stop turning ourselves into numbers.

Why you can't stop taking personality quizzes

There is a reason the same people who mock horoscopes will spend nine minutes finding out their villain archetype.

Delulu, rizz, and the new language of self-diagnosis

We used to describe ourselves with adjectives. Now we do it with slang that already comes pre-loaded with a diagnosis.

The screenshot economy: why we share our results

A quiz result that never gets screenshotted might as well not exist. Here is what makes people hit the button.

Red flags, beige flags, and the flag-industrial complex

We have run out of colors. Somehow the flag metaphor keeps working anyway.

Your quiz result is a mirror, not a diagnosis

Take the result seriously enough to laugh. Do not take it seriously enough to reorganize your life.

Enough reading. Go take a test →