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TikTok users spent much of 2025 complaining that memes had slipped into pure nonsense. Consequently, a growing crowd is pushing for a full cultural refresh, dubbed the Great Meme Reset of 2026, set to ...

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This story was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal. Read the series here.

Allow us to describe Stone Simulator for you: you are a stone in a picturesque woodland environment, and you do exactly what a stone does. You sit there, utterly inanimate, for absolutely ages.