Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better.I’m in a love-hate relationship with Twitter. I love the online friendships I’ve fostered through K-pop fancams, Gossip Girl memes, and media industry woes. And I hate the fact that everything I’ve learned about NFTs has been against my will because some cryptoperson tweeted it into the ether and it has now been retweeted onto my timeline. In the spirit of truthfulness, I feel extremely validated by retweets, likes, and positive replies. I am a Virgo. I run solely on coffee and validation from others. But, ultimately, I hate how addicted I am to this app. My iPhone tells me that I currently spend more than 15 hours a week on Twitter, or just a little over two hours a day — and that’s not accounting for all of the hours I put in on my desktop throughout the work day. I’m not alone in my habitual need to stay chronically online. The average person spends two hours and 24 minutes per day on social media apps, and for older members of Gen Z, that’s closer to 3 hours. I joined Twitter in February of 2009, when I was a sophomore in college. According to the archives, I mainly tweeted about pop culture, pulling all-nighters in the library, and … salads. As my job as an entertainment reporter became increasingly intertwined with my online persona, even affording me a coveted blue check mark, Twitter started to feel like a necessity; it was an essential marketing tool for young people to break through corporate barriers and hone their voices in real-time. In 2012, Twitter felt like a revolution. I told you my old tweets were harmless and embarrassing. Credit: Twitter/crystalbell Almost 10 years later, it feels more like a cautionary tale. Don’t get me wrong: Twitter can still open doors for marginalized writers and creatives, and it can foster a real sense of community and belonging. Yet, it has also become a space where racism and violence fester. That disproportionately affects women, especially Black women, who are 84 percent more likely to receive abuse on the app, according to a study conducted by Amnesty International and Element AI. I can’t speak for all Twitter users. Everyone’s experience on the app is different. I reached a breaking point in February, when the online harassment got so bad I made my account private and re-evaluated my entire approach to Twitter. As a woman online who writes primarily about music and fandom, I have experienced the ire of passionate fan bases. Sadly, it comes with the job. There have been times when those criticisms can lead to real, constructive discourse. But as Twitter becomes increasingly weaponized by stans, those instances have become few and far between. After all, it’s hard to search through hundreds of instances of threats and abuse to find the people who want to give you helpful feedback. Even engaging with those tweets results in more harassment. It just became too much. And it made me too sad amid a pandemic that had already destroyed my confidence and self-worth. Every time I opened the app, it was like ripping open a fresh wound. And the worst part was that I was knowingly inflicting the pain upon myself. Tweet may have been deleted So upon a recommendation from a friend, I finally changed my app settings. I closed my DMs. I muted hundreds of words, names, hashtags, and accounts — 716 in total, across several languages — like a woman possessed. I limited my notifications so that I can only see replies from the people I follow. (If I’m not already following you, I literally can’t see a single thing you tweet me. I have never known such peace online.) It took me less than an hour to radically, and positively, impact my time on Twitter. I know this sounds obvious. Because it is. That’s what those settings are there for, to customize your online experience. But for years, I thought that in order to do my job well, I had to be as online as possible — to always accommodate others, to answer their DMs and wittily engage in the discourse of the day. How would others know that I'm good at what I do unless they see it? Unless I have a following and a presence that can validate my authority? By simply changing my notification settings, I’m less consumed by what people are saying online and more present in my own life. But the less I engaged with people on Twitter, the more I actually started to enjoy it again. And the strange thing is that it completely changed my relationship to the app and to tweeting in general. I'm still on Twitter every day, but now I never check my notifications — and I no longer have the sick, twisted impulse to search my name on the app to see what people are saying about me. (Whatever you do, don’t do that. Though, it is how I learned that some stan accounts refer to me as “that crystal ball girlie” in online spaces, which I find amusing.) More importantly, I no longer feel anxious if I haven't tweeted all day. Yes, I do spend two hours a day on Twitter (to be fair, I am a digital culture editor, so I do have to be somewhat online), but would you believe me if I told you that it used to be worse? By simply changing my notification settings, I’m less consumed by what people are saying online and more present in my own life. SEE ALSO: A decades-old missing persons case and an obsessed true crime reporter puts Twitter's newest policy to the test It’s not a perfect fix. I will occasionally satisfy the urge to look, ever so briefly. When a recent tweet of mine was ratioed by a fandom, I had no idea it was even happening until an angry fan emailed me to demand I delete the years-old tweet. It was surreal to realize that for once I was being harassed and I didn’t even know it. I was living in blissful ignorance. Of course, then I spent 20 minutes looking through tweets, but the dread I used to feel — the pit in my stomach that would eat away at all of my remaining self-esteem — was nowhere to be found. For the first time in my professional, online life, I could exhale. I know that Twitter isn’t the ideal forum for empathy. At the end of the day, we’re all just pixels on a screen. I used to think that the only validation I could get was from others, like the people who replied to me, liked my tweet, or even retweeted something I wrote. But my online experience is so much more enjoyable now that I’ve learned how to validate myself. Even more essentialsI love my embarrassing lumbar support pillowHow to get in-stock alertsTricking out your iOS group texts is worth the tiny bit of effortLove organization? You need Notion.......

Thanksgiving is over with, good friends, so deck the halls, pull out your credit cards, flip on Hallmark, prepare yourself for shoveling — the holiday season is here. Yes, we are already somehow one week past gobble gobble season. December! How about that?Anyway, there were some good tweets out there this week. I don't mean to hype things too much, but good job internet, the posts were pretty funny. Sure, everything is scary and bad and the internet has probably rapidly accelerated the decline of...everything..but we've got our silly little jokes on our silly little websites. Fair trade, right?Anyways, here they are, the 18 best tweets of the week. Enjoy the good posts.1.Hahahaha oh good, I will be processing 2020 forever Tweet may have been deleted 2. My colleague Elena is very funny Tweet may have been deleted 3. This man made the correct airplane movie choice and I stand by that Tweet may have been deleted 4. A freaking CLASSIC Tweet may have been deleted 5. Going to be thinking about this for a few years and will now say it every time I use a ten dollar bill Tweet may have been deleted 6. My colleague Ali is also very funny Tweet may have been deleted 7. If you watch Selling Sunset then you know this is a perfect idea Tweet may have been deleted 8. Joseph Thee Stallion Tweet may have been deleted 9. More Beatles Get Back memes Tweet may have been deleted 10. One of many good Spotify Wrapped memes Tweet may have been deleted 11. And another Wrapped meme Tweet may have been deleted 12. The lateness has nothing to do with me Tweet may have been deleted 13. My colleague Alex is very funny, too Tweet may have been deleted 14. Why does Spotify try to talk like this? Tweet may have been deleted 15. A good joke that's reminiscent of a certain Mark Wahlberg quote Tweet may have been deleted 16. That's right Alex Tweet may have been deleted 17. Going scarecrow mode is the new meditation Tweet may have been deleted 18. And finally, dril Tweet may have been deleted......

Every year, Spotify Wrapped brings up a lot for people. It raises the alarming issue of how much data it's collected from its users. It holds up a megawatt mirror to our music choices revealing uncomfortable truths about our love for Olivia Rodrigo. It's more than we'd care to admit — let alone share with others. And last but not least, it's the perfect fodder for the internet's favorite pastime: memes. But for some reason, this year felt a bit different. In years past, Spotify Wrapped memes appeared in a flurry and melted as quickly as they came. But this year was more of a slow burn. Maybe the meme-making has becomes more thoughtful. Maybe Spotify Wrapped memes don't feel as fun since social media consultants told big brands they should jump on the bandwagon. No matter the reason, by the end of the week there's been a strong accumulation of Spotify Wrapped memes. Here are our favorites. The cringe copywriting this year was trying just a little too hard. Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Spotify Wrapped's new aura feature had a lot of people feeling vulnerable and weird. Tweet may have been deleted And then of course there was this lightning rod for graphic design style. Tweet may have been deleted We've gotta hand it to Spotify for making us forget we're the product. Tweet may have been deleted This one uses the Wrapped template in a laughing-through-the-tears kind of way. Tweet may have been deleted Speaking of tears, it wouldn't be a Spotify Wrapped meme roundup without Taylor Swift Tweet may have been deleted This time of year is always really hard for Apple Music users. So be kind, it's the season of giving. Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted This one really sums it up. Tweet may have been deleted Last but not least Kendall, the king of cringe. Tweet may have been deleted......

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