the feminine urge to

monitor the situation

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Boys Club
June 20, 2025

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The meme format monitoring the situation had a resurgence this week for obvious reasons I won’t get into here, and it gave me an excuse to highlight the many situations the internet is currently watching.

There’s a corner of the internet where monitoring the situation is a lifestyle. I recently became aware of the AWDTSG Facebook group, which stands for Are We Dating The Same Guy? There are over 200 of these groups on Facebook, each pulling in huge numbers of members. For example, the Salt Lake City / Provo / Utah group has over 62,700 members.

The purpose of these groups is primarily for women to commune with their fellow comrades in online dating. Women share photos of men they’ve matched with and get the tea from others who may have dated the same man previously. It’s wildly entertaining and unmatched when it comes to situation monitoring.

Sometimes men get to post in them and that usually turns out very bad.

In unmonitored news, it does seems that the venture capitalists are officially off for the Summer.

Fred again fans monitored the situation so heavily they actually turned on him.

Following the Twitch premiere of his latest single with British rapper Skepta, Fred again teased a pop-up show in NYC during the stream. Fans waited and watched for over four hours, only for tickets to drop just 30 minutes before doors opened. Ticketmaster logged nearly 100,000 people trying to snag one of only ~2,700 spots, prompting followers to call in the big guns to locate him down.

I do fear the new single is a bop, but it is also giving:

While on the subject of music, Twitter users are currently monitoring what appears to be a mid-life crisis taking place live on the streets of London.

The brutal video shows keep-my-wife’s-name-out-your-fucking-mouth Will Smith performing for a group of Londoners who seemed so genuinely uninterested that, if they were paid actors, I’d be speaking to the manager for a refund—immediatamente.

True crime fans rejoiced as a situation they had been monitoring for years finally reached a resolution. The Karen Reed trial ended this week, with her acquitted of all charges except for a DUI.

For those unfamiliar with the story, in short: a Massachusetts woman was accused of murdering her cop boyfriend. TikTok investigators jumped in, live-streaming play-by-plays of the trial, clip-farming court feeds, and highlighting inconsistencies in the case, as well as a ton of alleged corruption within the local police department. Proving that in 2025, you may want CrimeTok closely monitoring your situation. The docu-mini-series is going to go so hard.

What situation am I personally monitoring, you ask?