I remember watching the speed chess guys in Times Square back in the 80s. They would roll all comers, no exceptions. Every one was black. Watching them play each other when they were bored was the highlight of my trip there. So fucking fast, and talking shit the entire time. I am still awed by what I saw to this day.

Can I play with your Guinea pigs?

Club Med Adult only in Turks and Caicos. I have two kids who I love dearly but every so often my husband and I need to get away. This way there is no guilt about leaving with grandparents AND I’m not listening to anyone else’s kids. Plus as a teacher—it is a nice bonus.

Family size bag of Ruffles and some French Onion Dip.

I’m trying to imagine something that I have access to that an ‘influencer’ might possibly request, and I’m coming up very short.

I’m willing to write notes for you, if you need them, for a very reasonable price.

Writing these rejection notes could be a whole new cottage industry, and you are poised for great success in it.

I am pretty sure that IS what it means. Classist as fuck? The woman is trying to run a goddam business, which is what all these so-called ‘influencers’ should be trying to do.

For #travelgoals or #thinspo or #relationshipenvy #nomoreFOMO or whatever other dumb hashtag that stands in for voyeuristic envy. I think it’s one of the more insidious things about social media, particularly Instagram - we didn’t hate our lives as much before we saw a thin blonde girl posing against a pink wall in…

One of my parents’ friends kind of was one in the 80s. When his fraternity had a party he would call various companies and say they were having a (whatever fit the company) themed party and the companies would send some of their products. I particularly remember a ‘sleepover nostalgia’ party where he got tons of…

“Everyone with a Facebook these days is an influencer,” she said. “People say, I want to come to the Maldives for 10 days and will do two posts on Instagram to like 2,000 followers. It’s people with 600 Facebook friends saying, ‘Hi I’m an influencer, I want to stay in your hotel for 7 days,’” she said. Others send…

Yup. I would LOVE to take a vacation where I get to sit next to an awesome pool and pay people to bring me drinks and food. However, that’s pretty much ruined by super cool hipster influencers taking selfies, the omnipresent DJs that hotels feel they need to hire, and scads of screaming kids and their parents who…

I couldn’t give any less of a shit. As someone in the creative field who always gets asked to work for free for “exposure” welcome to my world luxury hotel workers. Good luck and I hope you’re buried in requests for free shit for exposure.

Technically, those accounts who share your hobbies could be considered influencers. People just can’t believe it, when they are considered ‘them’.

The desire to live through someone else in an alternate reality

I’m cynical, so whenever I hear “influencer”, I say “why did I go to grad school?” to myself.

I always found Spike really hot, but he’s lanky and thin, which is super my type.

Yes absolutely, 13 year old me did not GET Giles like I do now

Well I didn’t find Angel ‘creepy’. But totally agree that Giles and Spike were attractive too.

Forgot who Charlotte dated? She married Harry! Harry forever!