The Stanley Cup has been a hot topic of conversation now for probably a few months.
And rightfully so, okay?
This cup has taken over the world it feels like.
Probably not the world but at least America.
It's an insulated cup with a straw in it that holds something like 42 ounces of liquid in it.
It has a handle and it comes in a slew of beautiful colors.
This cup has taken the world by storm.
Moms, dads, more moms, but still dads too.
And kids alike are all frothing over this cup.
It's spanning all ages, the lore of the Stanley Cup.
Now my relationship to the Stanley Cup mirrors what's happening in culture.
I love my fucking Stanley Cup.
actually I have multiple.
I love my Stanley cups.
It keeps my ice cold all day.
It has a handle and a straw for ease of drink.
It fits in my cup holder in my car.
The little top of the lid holds things.
Like, if I need to put like my earrings somewhere I can just put them in the top of my Stanley Cup and they just sit comfortably there until I need to put them elsewhere.
Like, I love this fucking cup.
It is almost like an added limb for me But the Stanley Cup, it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
Okay, as with all things that go mainstream, now people fucking hate this Cup.
It's like with pop music.
You know, there's always going to be people who don't like it, who think it's corny, who think it's too easy to digest, who think it lacks creativity.
It's the same thing with anything that goes big, it's going to be polarizing.
And what's been said about the Stanley Cup is that it's cheugy.
Okay, chuggy is a slang term that describes someone or something as uncool, outdated, or lacking in style and originality.
It can also mean that someone is out of touch with current trends or trying too hard to be trendy.
So a lot of people are saying that the Stanley Cup is chuggy.
You know what? I get it but I don't care.
I love the Stanley Cup anyway.
Over the last few weeks I've seen a lot of Stanley Cup slander on the internet, people hating on this cup, hating on the culture around this Cup.
Now, I kind of understand the hate around the culture of this cup because it's becoming a status symbol and people are like fighting each other, trying to get the new colors in the store.
Like it's Black Friday in 2013.
Like I get the criticism.
I think that that is taking it a step too far myself, but I still love this fucking cup.
And I don't know. All this slander around the Stanley cup, all of these claims that the Stanley cup is Chu has inspired me to look inward and figure out what other things I love that are choogie.
Because, I think a lot of us are afraid of being choogie.
Myself included. I mean, does anyone want to seem like they're trying too hard?
Does anyone want to be uncool?
Not really. Like, no one's goal is like, you know what, I want be uncool and I want to be a tryhard. That's not on anyone's 2024 goals list, right?
However, I think that there is something weirdly cool about liking things that are choogi in an unapologetic way.
Like, there's some really incredible things that are considered choogi.
And so today I want to talk about all the things that I love that are choogie.
So I already sort of went on my rant about the Stanley Cup, so that was my first item, but I think that we've said enough there.
Actually, no, we haven't.
I'm just gonna say one more thing about the Stanley Cup.
I truly do believe that this is a timeless item.
Hear me out. I use my Stanley Cup every single day, and even when it's not cool anymore, it's already not cool.
I don't think I'm gonna be on to the next cup because it's not about that for me.
Like this cup is the most useful cup I've ever used.
Like I enjoy these cups simply because they are a phenomenal product, not because they're trendy.
And I think a lot of people feel that way.
Not everyone, but I think a lot of people feel that way, which is why I don't feel like they're just some stupid trend.
like the quality is way too high.
The design is way too smart.
It's just done way too well.
I don't know. Like I just think it's a timeless cup that I'm gonna use for years to come.
Even when a new cup comes along, if the new cup is better, okay, maybe, but I can't imagine a new, better cup coming onto the market anytime soon that's more functional than this one.
It just does everything I need it to do.
So I don't know, we'll see, but I think it's a timeless cup.
Next, I was on a road trip recently and I stopped at some gas stations that had gift shops.
And I was looking around at all this stuff and I was like, wow, all of this is choogy.
Okay, we have magnets with inspirational quotes.
We have cowboy hats that are like all bedazzled.
We have wind chimes that are like holographic and shit.
And we have like little wooden sculptures, like of animals and we have baseball caps that have quotes on them and we have all this shit, right?
And every single time I stopped at one of these gift shops, I spent at least an hour looking at everything.
And there were moments when I found things that I actually really liked.
Okay, there were some corny hats where I was like, I'm holding back.
Like, I wanna buy this to be honest. some corny magnets, they were appealing to me.
Okay, like a funny one that's like, I don't know, like a magnet of someone sneaking tequila into their coffee.
I was like, that's classic me, not really.
I've never done that.
But you know, it's like, wow, I love tequila.
I love coffee. That's so funny, I love that.
The little wooden sculptures of animals, okay, you know what?
I'll admit it, I bought one.
Actually, I bought two.
I bought one for me and I bought one for my mom.
Are they a little cheugy?
Yeah. I bought home decor from the gas station, but like there's something so charming about little items that you can get at a gift shop.
And a majority of it is corny, majority of it is cheugy.
I'd argue 95%. However, there's something so magical about this trademark cheuginess that comes from touristy gift shops that I actually love.
Not only do I love looking at all of it, but every once in a while I'll find something that I think could fit into my life in one way or another, and it's always something that I cherish.
I love touristy gift shops.
Sometimes you'll find shit that's actually cool, like a few summers ago when I was in the south of France, there were like, those were not choogie at all actually.
There was nothing choogie.
Maybe Maybe they would be cheugy to people who live in the South of France.
As an American it was not cringe to me I was like buying everything I was so excited.
But that's sort of that's a rare example of it being cool.
Most the time it's shitty and it's cringe and it's cheugy but I fucking love it.
Next we have actually very gift shop heavy place Disneyland.
I've gone through phases throughout my life with Disneyland when I was a kid I fucking loved it I absolutely adored Disneyland my family friends were a full Disney family like they had some sort of Disney membership so they had year -round tickets every single Christmas card that they sent out was a Disney Christmas card, they had Disney paraphernalia all over the house.
They like knew the people at the front desk of the Disneyland Hotel like they were the epitome of a Disney family.
And a few times they took me and my parents to Disneyland with them for a fun little trip.
And I don't think that there's anything more magical than Disney for a child.
I know it's obvious, but it is really magical.
Okay, I this vivid memory of staying in the hotel that's on the Disneyland park premises, and every night they would leave a little chocolate coin under my pillow that had a little Disney character on it and I would eat that before bed.
And then I'd wake up in the morning and I'd go down for breakfast and like I'd be eating my breakfast and then all of a sudden Mickey Mouse would come over and say what are you eating?
And I would it was amazing.
I mean Fuck it was amazing.
So I loved Disney as a kid, of course.
Then as I got older, I started to realize, okay, wait, this is actually kinda cringe.
This is chooky. Disney adults became a negative description of a person and throughout my teen young adult years I've not returned to Disneyland.
Recently I realized, I don't hate Disneyland.
I just hate Disneyland Cause it's cool to hate Disneyland.
It's cool to be like, no, that's for babies, bro.
I'm a big kid. I go to the fucking club and I'm doing shots on someone's boobs and like, fuck, fuck Disneyland.
No, I don't go to Disneyland.
I go to Urban Outfitters.
Fuck Disneyland. But it's like, no, Disneyland is fun.
There's fun food. The rollercoasters don't feel scary, which is amazing for me, cause I have way too much anxiety to go on a rollercoaster that goes upside down.
I'm not interested in that.
Rollercoasters at Disneyland are amazing for adults and for kids, they're not scary, but they're still exhilarating.
I think from what I can remember, it's been a while, but I think now that I'm an adult, I could get drunk at Disneyland.
That sounds like an absolute treat.
Not too drunk though, because I wanna make sure that I'm properly clicking myself into the roller coasters and things.
I have this vision in my head of my friends and I going to Disneyland for two days, maybe staying a night at the hotel, wow, that sounds absolutely beautiful.
That sounds absolutely amazing.
And I don't think I'm ever gonna be a Disney adult.
I don't think it's ever gonna be a part of my personality.
I don't think it's ever gonna be a part of my identity.
However, I do love Disneyland.
I love it. I love the essence of what it is.
And I've been lying to myself for all these years trying to be too cool for Disneyland.
I love Disneyland and I can't wait to go back.
And I hope that they will have me with open arms after my years of hating on them.
Okay, this next one is gonna be controversial.
Infinity scarves. Hear me out.
I know, infinity scarves were all the rage in like 2010.
If you're unfamiliar with what an infinity scarf is, imagine a scarf.
It's just one big loop, and you wrap it around your neck until it looks right, usually once or twice.
I never thought I'd be saying this, But infinity scarves are incredibly convenient, and I think that they can be styled in a cool way.
I know that we all think of infinity scarves and we think of 2014.
I get it. I know the image that you all have in your head.
I beg of you to rethink.
Think of a simple black infinity scarf.
Now think of it paired with a more modern 2024 outfit.
outfit. It could work!
Here's the reason why I love infinity scarves.
Because they are incredibly convenient.
A regular scarf cannot even come close to the convenience of an infinity scarf.
When the weather is cold and you're running around, like I'm thinking of myself running around New York City in January when it's fucking frigid.
And I'm thinking about my scarf blowing off of blowing off my shoulders every 30 seconds, having to retie it every 30 seconds.
Constantly fighting the scarf.
Never quite getting it right.
And then I think about my days in 2014 wearing an infinity scarf.
I don't have any of those memories.
I have memories of ease.
It's similar to my feelings about a cross body bag.
Cross body bags are not hot.
They're not the cute little mini shoulder bag that everyone knows and loves.
I understand that, but crossbody bags give you a convenience that is so unmatched that it makes them worth trying to make them feel modern and cool and trendy.
It's the same thing with an infinity scarf.
It has a negative connotation but I think that their convenience makes them something that should not be forgotten, should not be left in 2014.
Next winter, because I'm a little late to this, I didn't realize how much I loved infinity scarves until I tried to figure out what I love that was choogie.
Winter 2025. Yep. Infinity scarves for me.
Watch it happen and watch it not look as bad as you think.
It might look a little bit bad, similar to a crossbody bag, but I think it can be pulled off so wish me luck.
Next. This is actually something that's honestly trendy now.
So it's sort of pointless to mention, but it would be weird and honestly unprofessional if I didn't mention these because they are so hot in the topic of chogginess, Ugg boots, Ugg boots are fully trendy again.
So I don't feel like I need to convince you why you should appreciate Ugg boots because they're back in.
actually, there's a larger conversation here happening with UGG boots, let me explain.
I don't think the classic UGG boot, I'm talking about the short -ankle, flat, neutral -colored UGG boot, is ever chuggy.
That's my opinion, I think that those are timeless.
I think that what tends to go chuggy is the other designs, like from 2014 era, you know, the UGG boots that had the little bows on the or the UGG boots that had the buttons, you know, like it buttoned up the side of the leg or the UGG boots that were really stylized were really of the time.
Some of y 'all are not gonna like this, but I think that the platform UGG boots are gonna be cheugy.
They might already be cheugy, but I don't even think UGG boots as a whole are cheugy.
I think it's just the super stylized ones.
And actually, I tend to prefer the classic Ugg boots silhouette, you know, the classic short boot in the neutral colors, the boot that started at all.
You know, I do actually think those are timeless.
I think of like a surfer dude wearing them and I'm like, that'll never not be cool.
Like if you saw a photo of a surfer dude wearing him after the surf, it's like, that will never not be cool.
I think if somebody wearing like a simple UGG boot with a jean over it, maybe, and like a Carhartt jacket in a hoodie.
And like, to me, that's a timeless outfit.
I don't think anyone's going to look back at that and be like, that's cringe.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I, I really think that the classic UGG boot is not actually that choogy.
I think it's these other ones that are.
And you know, I'm not even that big of a fan of these other ones, to be honest. I don't really like the platform ones that much. I never really got into those.
I wanted them for like a minute and then I was like oh you know what I like my classic.
I'm good. Yeah I don't know and I don't like the ones that are chougi from 2014 so I guess it's not that I think UGG boots are chougie and I love them anyway it's that people lump in all the different styles of UGG boots and then call them all chougie and I'm here to say that there are some UGG boots that are not chougie and they're the ones that I like, in my opinion.
That is so talky of me, but you get what I'm saying.
Next, we have a shoe again, that I've talked about before.
Boat shoes like Sperrys.
When I think of middle school, high school, preppy kid, I think Vineyardvines.
And I think of Sperrys.
And I know a lot of us think that Sperrys are choogie, because Because in a lot of ways, they sort of are.
But I, a few months back, predicted that boat shoes were going to be trending.
I was like, I feel this in my bones.
I don't know why. I feel like a psychic.
I feel this in my bones.
Then, a few months later, two or three months later, I'm at the Miu Miu show, fashion show, in Paris.
And guess what I see on the goddamn runway?
Holy shit, it's boat shoes.
This has never happened to me.
It'll probably never happen to me again.
It was a coincidence, but they're trending again.
However, they're still a polarizing shoe.
Okay, even though they're starting to make their way back into the zeitgeist, they're not quite there yet.
They're considered choogy.
I actually do think that Sperrys are a timeless shoe.
I know that they're considered choogy, but I actually think what's choogey about the boat shoe is how they're styled.
Like, okay, a lot of times you see people wearing a Sperry boat shoe with, you know, like a pastel pair of little mini shorts and like a pastel button down.
And it's like a frat dude.
That look as a whole is jiggy.
That is not a timeless look.
Well, sometimes it can work, sometimes it can be timeless, but it depends on what color, I don't know.
Like it depends on what colors or patterns are used.
I mean, there's a lot of nuance, but like I think a lot of times the reason why Spareys get a bad rep is because they're just styled badly, you know, in a non -timeless Chu -gi way.
Listen, I'm here to say that it's a classic shoe, and I think that it can be styled in a cool way.
I really do. And I also think that they're not inherently Chu -gi.
Like, I think we all have it all wrong.
I think they're not actually Chu -gi.
If you really think about the boat shoe, it's a classic shoe.
It's sort of like a loafer.
It's timeless like a loafer.
There are certain styles of loafers that are not timeless, but I think the classic penny loafer is timeless.
I think the classic brown Sperry boat shoe is timeless or something similar to it, doesn't have to be Sperry, but you get what I'm saying?
The classic simple Ugg boot, original Ugg boot is timeless.
All of these things I think are timeless.
And I don't think they're Chugi.
I think they just got wrapped up in other trends that are cheugy, and that's what left them in the past. Also, one time Sperry's had to do a post, I think, because people thought that they paid me to say that I thought bochus were coming back.
That did not happen.
No one's paying me.
I would get sued if I said that, and then I didn't disclose it.
I am not interested in fraud, okay?
So if you're interested in fraud, find that elsewhere.
It's not coming from me I am a law -abiding citizen as often as I can be next we have my last shoe apparently shoes are like very controversial oh my god well I could list shoes all day and now that I'm thinking about it like what I was about to say was flip -flops but also like Merrill's are kind of coming back into style even though those are considered Chewgee and those don't really bother me those actually might be timeless I can't tell but anyway let's stick to flip -flops because I haven't really given up enough thought to marrels and I also don't love them like I don't adore them so maybe
they don't get a mention today I like them but I'm not like passionate whereas I'm passionate about flip -flops last summer I rediscovered the flip -flop and I was like no this is not chuggy I thought it was chuggy for years ultimately it's a classic sandal and it's the only sandal to me that's not chuggy like I'm even kind of over the Birkenstock sandal that has the double strap over the top of the foot.
I still love the Birkenstock clog.
That is not chuggy to me yet.
I still like it. The flip flop, though, I don't know.
I'm kind of into it.
I think it might be a timeless sandal.
Sandals are tough to begin with, okay?
They're all a little chuggy, but flip flops are chuggy in a way that I like.
Like, I like the cringy snapping sound that they make when you walk.
I like the little tan that you get on your foot when you're wearing flip -flops.
I like how they look with jeans.
I like how they look with a cute little pair of Bermuda shorts that goes down to your knees.
Like, I kind of fuck with it.
And there are some people who are gonna think that flip -flops are stillNot true, I get it.
But I think that they're the best summer sandal that reveal toe anyway.
I don't know. Next, emojis.
Using emojis. Talking about emojis.
Emoji usage is considered choogie, especially when it's overdone.
I am an emoji over -user.
Now, I have a reason for this.
It's because I use emojis in the way that God intended.
Which is to add more dimension to my text message.
To tell more of a story.
To demonstrate more of my emotions to allow the other person to understand my tone.
Emojis are incredibly helpful.
They're fun. They're simply fun.
Like can we give ourselves that for a minute?
Emojis are fun. They're fun to use.
It's fun to scroll through the emoji catalog when writing a text and to choose the one that works just right, my God, is that fun.
And so I understand why it's choogie and cringey to use too many emojis.
Why? Because it's something that, you know, adults do to try to be cool, to fit in with the kids, like, oh, all the kids are using emojis these days.
I'm gonna use emojis, and then they use emojis that are cringe, and it's like, and they overuse them and they send too many.
And it's like, I get it, but it's like, not only are they fun.
Not only are they helpful to demonstrate tone, but they're just simply there.
So why not? You know what I'm saying?
They're there. So why not use them?
I dunno. That's just me.
I love emojis. I'm not going and watching the emoji movie.
Okay. I haven't seen that.
Although I did hear it was kinda good from a usually sarcastic source.
So actually I need to ask them again if they actually liked it, but anyway, I love, I love emojis and I love overusing them.
Next we have horrible, cheugy, television.
I'll give you some examples.
Ink Masters, a tattoo competition show where contestants compete to win to be the best tattoo artists.
And the show if you google it right now it's very cheugy.
Okay then we also have Drink Masters, a where mixologists, bartenders, compete to be the best bartender mixologists.
The way that that show is shot and done, it's very cheugy.
You know, we have shows like is it cake on Netflix?
Where, it's a show where these people make things, make cakes that are supposed to look like real things.
And then it's like a game show, trying to figure what's real and what's cake and who can make the best cake that looks the most like a real thing and anyway all of these shows that are not necessarily cool like okay what's a cool show like Game of Thrones or White Lotus or even like Breaking Bad or something I don't know Shows that are considered cool to like, right?
These shows are not that.
If you look up any of these shows, you'll be like, this is choogie, okay?
It's trying too hard to be funny at times.
It's shot in a way that's just choogie, like overly saturated and dramatic, and like it's just choogie, right?
I'm so sorry, but nothing tames my anxiety better than this type of television.
my god do I love it.
The other day I was having dinner with someone and they were like can we watch TV and I was like yes what a treat, let's do that.
Turn on the TV and they're like what should we watch and I was like I'm kind of scrolling around and I see the show Is It Cake and I was like you know what please and they were like Emma are you fucking with me?
I was like please because And I was kind of anxious that day.
I was like, this just looks good to me.
Chewgy TV, okay? Let me tell you what's so great about it.
Number one, the cast of characters in these shows are always so comforting for some reason.
They're normal, chill, cool people who just are really good at one thing and they tend to just be sweet and they don't make you feel insecure about yourself.
Like they're always very comforting people.
Whereas like, If you go and watch Game of Thrones, like there's all these hot people in it and like Everyone's in these dramatic costumes and there's all this action and like it's just not as approachable Okay, so that's number one.
Number two, the subject matter is low stakes Like you don't really care that much about the outcome Whereas you're watching Game of Thrones and you're like on the edge of your seat like oh my god, what's gonna happen?
Ah, what's gonna happen?
You know what I mean?
Again great for anxiety The cheuginess is actually what makes it entertaining as well.
Like there's a novelty to when something's so cheugy that you're like, Oh my God, I can't take my eyes off because it's so cheugy.
It's so cringe. It's so, you know, like there's something engaging about that, there's something fun about that.
I love cheugy TV. Next, VSCO.
This is very full circle for me because I used to be a very, very, very active user of VSCO.
If you don't know what VSCO is, it is a photo editing app as well as sort of a social media where you can post artsy photos or photography if you're a photographer.
And it's pretty chill nowadays.
Like it's kind of under the radar these days, but it used to be incredibly popular in like 2015, 2016, 2017.
everybody would go on there and edit their photos because it was the first app that had relatively high -quality filters and it was like a fun place to post artsy photos when social media first started to become a place where everybody was like wait a minute I want to be artsy too and then everyone was artsy and it was like everyone was expressing themselves for the first time through photo and it was such a magical time and it was so fun VSCO was actually like a really fun social media app to be a part of and I like it was almost always positive you know there was no comment section there was no follower
count it was just all about cool photos I took my visco very seriously.
I had a very curated feed and it was an obsession of mine in high school and my Instagram used to have super intense visco filters on them like super heavily filtered and then eventually that fell out of favor using filters became choogie right especially Instagram filters but visco filters as well, it became choogy to over filter your photo.
Well, I'm here to say that I still use VSCO to edit photos sometimes.
And I still think it's a phenomenal app, okay.
They have amazing filters, and listen, I'm not a Photoshop like professional, okay.
I've never used Photoshop.
I don't understand how to color grade on Photoshop.
I'm sure it'd be helpful to learn and maybe at some point in my life I will, but I just never got around to it.
And I think VSCO does great work for me for Instagram.
Like I don't do it on my iPhone photos.
Like if I take a photo on the iPhone, I don't usually edit it.
But if I take a photo on one of my DSLR cameras, I'm sorry, but I'll throw that shit into VSCO and I'll edit it.
And I definitely edit it with a lighter hand than I used to.
Like, I'm not slapping the filter on and then calling it good.
Like, I'm lightning the filter a lot.
like I'm making it a lot less intense, but I'm still using this go filters.
Like I think that they're great.
And I've just changed the way that I've used the filters, but like, I don't know.
Like I still find them very useful.
I get the Viscose chuy, but I love that.
Next we have white claw.
So if you're unfamiliar with the white claw, it is a very popular alcoholic Seltzer.
They were very popular in like 2016, 2017.
Well, a lot of people think that white claws are cheugy.
Like drinking a white claw is cheugy.
And I understand why, because it had such a meteoric rise.
It was like the first really popular alcoholic seltzer in my generation anyway.
It came out right when we were starting to drink.
Gen Z was starting to drink.
And it was just like exciting.
They're palatable, they're refreshing, they're pretty tasty.
I think they're tasty.
I like a White Claw.
I get that they're chooky because it became like a thing, like, oh, you're having a party.
Like, you got to get a pack of claws.
Like, everybody, oh my God, we're getting claws.
Everybody get claws.
Like it became a thing.
It's like, oh my God, I drink two White Claws, now I'm drunk.
Like, it became this sort of, became such a part of the zeitgeist that naturally it eventually became chooky.
I feel like when anything becomes too popular, it becomes cheugy, similar to the Stanley cup.
I still fuck with a White Claw, I'm sorry.
You know, I'll tell you a story actually that is so fond to me and it's in regards to White Claw.
I was in New York recently and I'd never been on the Staten Island ferry.
Okay, let me give you some clarity.
I've been in New York a lot and there's a lot of things that I've not tried, okay.
Prior to this trip that I'm discussing now, I had not been on the subway before.
I had not been on the Staten Island Ferry before, etc. etc. Those were two things that I did on that trip.
I went on the subway for the first time, loved it.
Absolutely loved it.
And then I also went on the Staten Island Ferry.
Okay, just sort of checking off some things on the bucket list. So me and this person that them with.
We're like, Oh, like, should we like get a little snack or something to go on the ferry?
Like, what should we do?
And guess what? We see, we see extra -large white claws.
Huge. Okay. Huge. Like, double the size of a normal one.
We buy those and we drink them on the Staten Island.
I mean that, like, that's ...
I fucking love a white claw.
Like, that memory of me being on the Staten Island ferry.
Okay, it would have nice without the White Claw, but with the fucking White Claw, it made it even better.
They still bring me joy.
They still give me a nice little buzz.
Like, I just like a White Claw, sue me.
And like, they're always a crowd pleaser.
Everyone loves them when you're throwing a party if you get them.
Like I don't know. Listen, I will say, there are other seltzers that I prefer.
Like, I prefer a tequila seltzer.
Like if I'm buying them for my house, am I gonna go buy a White Claw?
Not necessarily. I'm probably gonna buy some some sort of tequila seltzer.
But I like a white cloth still, and I don't care that they're chewy.
Okay, next, we have PopSockets.
Now, I don't have a PopSocket on my phone currently, but PopSockets were all the rage back in the day.
If you don't know what they are, they're a little...
sticky thing that sticks to the back of your phone, and they're retractable.
It's like this little circular disc, right, on your phone.
But then if you pull out the disc, it basically creates this sort of thing that you can grab onto with your fingers so that your phone sits more comfortably in your hand or you can stand it up on a table more easily and it has something to be propped up on.
It's just okay, whatever.
Now pop sockets became uncool over the last few years.
They became cheugy over the last few years because again, I think that they just went too mainstream and then they naturally got rejected.
I was thinking about it the other day and I was like, I would get another pop socket.
Like that was actually a useful thing that I liked having on my phone.
It was actually handy and it was actually useful.
I use it all the time.
I used to play with it.
Like if I'm waiting in the line of the grocery store, I'd play with it.
It really did allow my phone to sit more comfortably in my hand.
I could put my phone up anywhere and watch YouTube, especially when I'm eating.
Like if I'm eating in my kitchen and I have a YouTube video playing on my phone or something, like, I'll just plop the phone down and continue watching it, you see what I mean?
I get that it's cheugy, but it's like kind of useful.
And I'm actually thinking about ordering one, I'm not kidding.
I think it's extra cheugy when they're fashion accessory, like I kinda can see where that's a little cheugy.
It's like, all right, let's relax.
Like it's a pop socket, just get a plain colored one, like let's relax.
But I think that the invention as a whole, it's good.
I'm sorry, but it's good.
And everyone's been buying those cases that have the suction cups on the back that you can stick to the wall or stick to basically any flat surface because they're useful for like filming a TikTok or filming taking a photo and self -timer or whatever.
I think those are more 2G than a popsocket because those are actually so fucking annoying.
Your phone sticks to everything you put your phone down and sticks to the table.
if you stick the phone to the wall.
Sometimes it falls off.
Like, I dunno, it's just, that's less useful and more chuggy to me than the PopSocket.
And that is a hot take that I'm willing to put out onto the internet because I'm brave unlike some people.
Actually, I'm the least brave. I'm like the most afraid to say a hot take.
But that's my hot take.
Okay, next, I love chuggy restaurants.
I'm talking about Applebee's, I'm talking about Red Robin, I'm talking about Rainforest Cafe, I'm talking about Chili's.
Is the food good? No. Is it going to give me an IBS flare -up after?
Yes. I know what I'm getting myself into when I eat at a restaurant like this.
However, there's something so appealing about them to me, and I like sometimes being in a random...
Like, I live in L .A., where there's so much food and so much good food, and I'm so fortunate to have that because it's just amazing.
Like, there's so many amazing restaurants here, And you know, a lot of small businesses, like cool, like one -off restaurants, you get it.
You know, it's a big city.
It has that. Whereas there are some cities in the United States that don't have that.
It's all these chains, all these restaurants that are considered choogie, the Applebee's, the Chili's, et cetera.
I think that these restaurants are choogie because they sort of have like a early 2000s outdated aesthetic and the food is also kind of outdated like the menu is not I don't know it's like nowadays people are just eating they're like where's the kombucha on the menu or something you know what I'm saying?
like maybe yeah this is very LA.
I think I'm in the LA bubble so I think that that might be like I don't know impacting my perspective but regardless these restaurants are considered to be cheugy and in some places in the United States like those are the restaurants and I love like being on a road trip and being hungry and being like let's go to Applebee's that is so fucking fun to me and it might only be fun because it's a novelty for me because I don't go to Applebee's in Los Angeles you know what I'm saying but even something like a It's a cheesecake factory.
So chuggy. The decor is chuggy.
Everything about it's chuggy.
The fact that the menu is like fucking 40 pages long, that's chuggy.
I love the cheesecake factory.
Like, I would go tonight.
Like, if someone wants to go with me tonight, I'll go tonight.
I love that shit for some reason.
And again, I can't figure out why.
It might be because it's a novelty, because it's not something that I go to often.
I associate it more with like, a road trip and kind of being in the middle of nowhere, and that's the only option.
But also I like the fact that it's not fancy.
I like the fact that the menu is like super American and like kind of gross sometimes.
I like how dramatic it is.
These types of restaurants will have like boom, pow, ultimate loaded nachos.
Or like the drink menu will be like tropical dolphin blue sunrise Magic Show magician explosion.
And it's like, fuck yes, this is fun.
Like this shit's fun.
I don't know. There's just something fun about it.
And the food can be kind of good, too.
Like sometimes it's kind of gross, but sometimes it's actually kind of good.
So it's just an experience.
It's a fun experience, at least for me.
And so I love Chuggy restaurants.
Next on the opposite end of the spectrum here, we have smoothie bowls.
Smoothie bowls were all the rage mid 2010s.
Everybody's putting their smoothie bowl on their Instagram.
It was a whole thing.
Very aesthetic food.
I used to eat them all the time, and as with all things, when they go mass they become cheugy later, when they're not cool anymore and no one's ordering them anymore.
I get it, I'm so sorry though.
Every single time I have a smoothie bowl it's fucking delectable, it's delectable, it's delicious, it is so tasty, okay?
a lot of people say like, just get a normal smoothie.
Like the smoothie bowl's so extra.
It's like a deconstructed smoothie, like just get a fucking smoothie and grow up.
No! Stop telling me what to do.
I like the diverse texture that a smoothie bowl provides.
I like I'm getting a little crunch with the granola.
I like that I'm getting a little bit of chewiness from some peanut butter on top.
I like that I'm getting a crunchy strawberry, Okay, not crunchy, but sort of firm strawberry.
I like that I'm getting a creamy banana chunk.
Like, I like this. I like this experience.
And I like smoothie bowls.
I'm sorry, they're tasty.
And they are beautiful to look at.
And I've been thinking recently that I wanna start getting smoothie bowls more because I like them and they're tasty.
Okay. That's all I have for today.
Those are my favorite cheugy things.
I probably forgot a bunch because I think deep down, I am maybe 2g.
Listen. We like what we like.
And if it happens to be 2g, so what?
There are a lot of 2g things that I don't like.
Okay. For example, I don't like skinny jeans.
I don't like things that have sequins on them.
I don't like a side part.
I don't like cringy quotes on the wall.
I used to have those in my house growing up at my mom's house, not at my dad's house.
Like my parents got divorced, my mom got an apartment and she filled the walls with things that had cringey quotes on them.
That's just what happens with divorce.
My dad what probably would not have. Ah, he would have allowed it if it made her happy, I think, but I just don't think it would have happened otherwise.
However, well, he's also an artist. Like he would be like, can we please put my paintings up on the wall?
Like this thing that says home is where the, where the critters are, is like not, it's bringing me down.
It's just confusing me.
It's just upsetting me.
No. I mean, he's so nice.
He would have been fine with it.
But so I'm going off on a tangent, but there are a lot of cheugy things that I don't like.
However, through looking internally and realizing the things that I enjoy that are cheugy, I'm better able to accept those who enjoy things that I still believe are cheugy and are not my taste, you know, it's just better helping me accept others.
Not that I ever didn't, but now I'm even better at it.
So what a beautiful thing that is.
And on that note, that's all I have to say for today.
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