Oxford’s word of the year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.”
It’s both refreshing and rewarding, then, when you find a place on the internet that stops your doom scrolling in its tracks and makes your thumb quit swiping for longer than a New York minute. The IG account @IWantToStay.Ok is one such destination, dedicated to posting pics that are altogether cute, strange, and nostalgic. Here’s a collection of our favorites.
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