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Ruby Tocker

Ranked by Ruby: Smosh Eras 

I’m a huge fan of Smosh. After entering the fandom following the demise of Defy, I quickly grew to love the eclectic energy the cast, content, and channels oozed.   All eras of Smosh immediately appealed to me for different reasons. Old Smosh defined the early YouTube scene, creating edgy,

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Lauren Anastasi

The Perfect Accompaniment to a Beheading

Don’t get me wrong, I’m an avid horror fan and you can always find me curled up at night with any terrifying movie I can find, but have we as a society been a little overexposed to the genre? It’s easy to forget what we’re exposed to on a daily

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Riley Hunt

Anime and it’s Rise into the Mainstream

Anime. Once considered a pervert’s haven and socially unaccepted in the West… (Lowkey depending on where you look still is, looking at you, Jobless Reincarnation fans), Has evolved past its stigma to mainstream relevance and prevalence. But how did a median so differentiated from Western culture end up so intertwined

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Sarah Smith

The Apathy Epidemic (And Why You Should Give a Shit)

No one gives a fuck. Why does no one give a fuck? There’s so much to give a fuck about!   We’re all too occupied with faster, cheaper, richer, easier. There’s a reason why the nonchalant boyfriend trope has been the butt of the joke recently. It’s embarrassing. We’ve been

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Joseph Laybourn

History 4 Dummies

What’s the deal with WW1? Alright so there’s this loser called Gavrilo Princip. He’s got nothing going for him, He’s poor, he’s scrawny, an outcast, and friendless, He’s an Incel. He’s been muddled up with a Serbian secret society “The Black Hand.” (such a fucking over the top name “ooooh

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Germaine Grewal

The West’s Eastern Obsession

Asian media is more popular than ever before. Anime, K-pop, manga and more: what were once niche hobbies have now caught on and become mainstream. But their popularity has also seen a rise in those admiring or even borderline obsessing over the countries from which they originate. A classic case

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Toby Brockelbank

Covered with Amy Durant

1. What inspired your art for this issue?   My art is almost always inspired by what I’m listening to when I make it which is fitting for this issue haha. I was listening to a lot of Vocaloid while doing the cover and less digital sounding music when I

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Lans McGall

Because The Original Wasn’t Enough

Let’s be honest: fan fiction is the internet’s wild, untamed jungle—a place where Harry Potter can fall in love with Draco Malfoy, Sherlock Holmes can solve crimes with Pikachu, and absolutely no one is safe from an unexpected vampire transformation or being human trafficked by their mother to a boyband.

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Amira Stephenson

Cosplay (Pros and) Cons Newbie to Experienced

Sarah: Semi-retired cosplayer The first time I ever cosplayed it was 2019, and I still cared about the MCU. I walked into Tauranga Armageddon in an incredibly hodgepodge crimson coat and bodice knowing full well that the cheap curtain fabric wasn’t particularly accurate to the Scarlet Witch costume I had tried

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Nexus Mag

Beating Endo

By Maya Trotman Nearly every evening I would be sitting on the couch with a heat pack on my stomach holding painkillers with a glass of water ready. One evening, the worst pain of my life arrived. I was in the bathroom, scared, because now I knew this wasn’t normal,

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