Grandma May Be Dead, But She Was Right

They say history repeats itself, usually because we’re too stubborn to learn from it the first time. But in today’s case, history is less about collapsing empires and more about collapsing comment sections.

If we’d listened to Grandma, half of the nonsense online wouldn’t exist. Our grandmothers may not have had Wi-Fi, but they knew a thing or two about human nature—and those sayings they repeated over meatloaf still apply in the digital world.

Somehow, in the Internet age, keyboard warriors and TikTok influencers have forgotten the social norms that guide people as they have replaced human interaction with their screens — however, it is still another human behind your little iPhone screen.

So, since you forgot what granny taught you, I’ll give you a quick crash course:

“If you don’t h