Clavicular framemogged meme (Credits: Google Images)  Clavicular walks up to strangers on university campuses with a tape measure and a camera.  He talks about framemogging, when someone simply looks better “in frame” than someone else. To mog is to dominate visually or to win genetically.    For some viewers, it’s simply meme culture, but the language is sticking.     Looksmaxxing, a term born in online male forums, refers to optimizing one’s physical appearance to its highe

A post on Moltbook, an online network for AI agents, shares a message about human creators and artificial intelligence. The site launched Jan. 28 and is designed primarily for interactions between AI bots. (Brianna Lyttle/AQ) As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly abundant in everyday life, an online network specifically made for bots to interact with each other has officially launched. Moltbook, created by Octane AI, is intended for agentic AI to connect with e

Watercolor paint, pencil crayons, pastels and Joan Didion. (Malachi Lefurgye/AQ) Each year, people popularize new year's resolutions on social media, from VSCO girls, to “to be cringe is to be free.” Now, 2026’s resolution is to break free from the chains that consumption-driven media has over us all. Since our frontal lobes are finally reaching maturity, our generation is now becoming aware of the decline and uprise of social media. We are aware that simply sitting in bed sc

#2016core. (Credit: Pinterest) For many students, the return of 2016 is not just a trend but a reflection of how overwhelming the present has become.     Camila Baquerizo Bayona, a fourth-year student completing an honours in human rights with a double major in political science and international relations at St. Thomas University, said she was just a kid back in 2016.  “The problems I had back then were nothing compared to what I understand now.”   Her memory of the year is

The most recent truck crash on the Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge occurred on Friday, Oct. 17. (Photo Credit: CBC Fredericton) The Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge on Waterloo Row has seen a series of transport trucks get stuck under the overpass due to wrongfully estimating the maximum height. Two of these crashes occurred within the same week, leading to the situation becoming a Fredericton-wide joke that was capitalized on by businesses and social media influencers. Kane “Kaner” Fit