Opinion | Izzie Ramirez: Cake meme reflects coronavirus absurdity in a world where nothing is what it seems. - NBCNewsTHINK
. With the exception of Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen videos, which are more about the personality of the cooks, food videos these days rely on a formula contingent on surprise and revulsion.
Besides our morbid fascination with this intersection of the weird and the delicious, another big factor behind the success of the cake meme is more depressing: Collectively, our relationship with reality seems to be declining. Thehas turned many of our worlds upside down, eroding social structures and work-life routines and blending days into weeks into months.
The very realities we exist in are subject to interpretation and politicization. Everything and anything feels up for debate.
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