Catalanism (catalanisme) is a broad political and cultural movement that seeks to recognize, promote, and defend the distinct national identity, language, and culture of Catalonia.
The late-stage capitalist phenomenon in which cats are increasingly deployed as the ultimate marketing failsafe. When consumer interest wanes, creativity stalls, or a product simply fails to resonate, the solution is always the same: put a cat on it. From YouTube thumbnails to luxury fashion campaigns, the formula is depressingly reliable—slap a feline on anything, and suddenly it sells. It is the final, desperate stage of a system that has run out of new ideas and now relies on our collective weakness for furry faces to move product.
The new campaign is a textbookcase of catapalism—when a brand runs out of ideas, it just puts a cat on it and hopes for the best.
I can't believe Diesel resorted to printing cat images on t-shirts to manipulate us into buying—catapalism at its finest.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.