SNL made a skit about how it's kind of funny that for the last two weeks, SOLIDLY, the internet has been set absolutely aflame because a dude who is a member of the 'try guys', a group of some of the blandest buzzfeed-era epic win millennial men of all time who eat pizza hut til they shit out their pants for views, cheated on his wife with someone at work, something that happens.... well, OFTEN, sort of constantly, in literally every workplace context imaginable, and, yes, cheating is always a shitty thing to do to someone you love, and it's possible that there were some bad workplace dynamics here, but importantly, nobody is alleging that: the other person involved in the cheating didn't come out and speak out about it; rather, fans just outed the fact that they were cheating. i mean, it's still bad, nobody's denying that, but like, we live in an era where we regularly find out that celebrities are sort of slightly cannibals on the side, or like, their name was on epstein's plane or something. this was like, a dude kissing a female employee at a harry styles concert. lmao. and anyway it's good gossip, great gossip even, but it's rare and strange to see a simple cheating scandal like this turn into a social media meltdown, let alone a MAELSTROM to the degree that even someone like me, who has never spared a passing glimmer of a thought to the mustachioed millennial men who make videos like "try guys giant spaghetti pool 1,000 LBS"—even i have been unable to avoid a constant barrage of tweets, tiktoks, youtube deep dives, conspiracy theories, and hours-long compilations of 'moments that didn't age well' from apparent fans who are stoking the flames and digging their fingers in the wounds, which—these fans have apparently existed all this time? there were really try guy stans out in the wild that i never knew about? actually, apparently, i'm in the vast minority, i'm actually one of the only people on earth who ISN'T a try guy stan, apparently EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET cares about these random bland ass white dudes (not eugene he seems cool) a LOT and i just didn't know about it. suddenly i find myself watching the hour-long podcast video where two indistinguishable white guys (keith and, i literally don't know the other guy's name i think his name is toby) talk for an hour about how they are going to digitally remove all traces of the asshole from their videos, which like, damn, okay, fair enough, he fucked up, but like... it's kind of funny, right?? i mean, it's a little absurd, the whole thing, you know???? it's kind of like, what the fuck? huh? so snl made a skit about that 'wtf' feeling where a cnn reporter who is trying to talk about ukraine and iran keeps getting interrupted by the try guys, and it's a pretty funny skit if you empathize with that feeling of like, "why does everyone care about this SO MUCH," and in response to this skit, the internet collectively responded: kill yourself.