Hawk Tuah Girl, explained by straight dudes
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Hawk Tuah Girl, explained by straight dudes
I was talking to a younger friend about this a while back—your Internet presence is increasingly more valuable than your real-life presence. Which is weird and dystopian and I don’t really know how to think about it. But it’s true, and I think people who are like, I don’t need the Internet , don’t understand the extent to which much of the p
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