Chronically Online: wtf is "brown noise?"

The best of the internet, right here, right now [BuzzFeed Daily]( FRIDAY, JUNE 17 2022 Happy Friday, friends! This week we saw people [go feral]( for Beyoncé merch, Netflix revealed they clearly [didn't understand]( "Squid Games," and Dwight D. Eisenhower got [the meme treatment]( from beyond the grave. But wait — there's more! Here are all the other trends, convos, and memes you might have missed from every dark corner of the internet. Enjoy! ✨ [a woman wearing glasses and large headphones looks into the camera with a straight expression with caption ''where did the thoughts go?'']( [@natalyabubb / TikTok]( Brown Noise, TikTok's Latest Life Hack, Is Less Gross Than It Sounds Being so ~online~ has probably given all of us brain worms, but luckily TikTok has discovered the cure to feeling like there's just loose change rattling around up there. A user [posted a video]( (which racked up 1.3 million likes in four days) of them listening to something called "brown noise." Now, [#brownnoise]( has over 25 million views on the app. Similar to white noise, it's a sound that supposedly [calms your thoughts]( and [helps you focus](. Now, I'm no scientist (shocking, I know) but after scrolling through hundreds of videos of people touting the benefits of brown noise, I'm definitely intrigued. [a series of AI images featuring Voldemort from Harry Potter getting a haircut]( [@weirddalle / Twitter]( These Weird Viral AI Images Are Simultaneously EntertainingAnd Disturbing After blowing up overnight, [this Twitter account](that posts weird AI ([or not?]() mashups is still pumping out content. People submit their requests — which range from "[horse sipping tea and reading a book with rain clattering on the window](" to "[triceratops as cheese](" — via Reddit, and then the images are shared to Twitter, where they've gone super viral. Their [most popular tweet]( is a series of images featuring the demogorgon (like, from "Stranger Things") playing basketball. Technology may be getting [*too* advanced](, if you ask me. [a screenshot of a quote tweet reading ''scrolled past like 6 times cos i thought this was a love island contestant'']( [@bagelforlunch / Twitter]( Ryan Gosling As Ken In The New Barbie Movie Has Broken The Internet If you weren't already excited about Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie, here's your reason: [Ryan Gosling as himbo Ken](. That image quickly went viral and people had *thoughts.* Some were [100% here for it](, [some not so much](, and some were already [predicting scenes](. The comparisons also flowed in: Ryan as [houses](, the guy we [love to hate](, and the [OG himbo](. If that's not enough, the [quote tweets]( will have you falling down a bleach-blonde rabbit hole. Maybe I am a Barbie girl... [a screenshot of a tweet reading ''let kim kardashian ruin more artifacts. let her drive the jfk car into a swamp. eat ribs over the dead sea scrolls. she's the reverse indiana jones.'']( [@carterhambley / Twitter]( People Got Angry, Then Indifferent, Then Roasted Kim Kardashian Over The Marilyn Monroe Dress The Internet moves fast. Case in point: the emotional roller coaster Twitter went on as it processed Kim K wearing Marilyn Monroe's infamous dress to the Met Gala. After [a tweet]( comparing the dress pre- and post- Kim's BBL squeezing into it went viral, people threw (virtual) hands about her ["damaging" it](. But a TikTok user quickly [debunked this](, so the internet moved on to the jokes (my personal favorite part!). First people got [apathetic]( and then they said "[why not take it a step further?](" Then they started [naming dresses]( Kim better not [lay her claws on.]( What's next? [a screenshot of a tweet reading ''thanks to beyonce, a whole generation will know how to spell renaissance'' but it's spelled incorrectly]( [@yourlocalebony / Twitter]( Listen: The album we've all been [waiting for](. Eat: A big ole pint of [this bad boy](. Watch: There's cute, and then there's [this](. Try: Tinder, but for books. [Swipe away](. Read: Google is getting [replaced](. Is there a hot, new TikTok trend coming across your FYP? See a tweet that had you laugh so loud you scared your dog? Want to argue about the next "Laurel vs. Yanny?" Hit "reply" to this email to slide straight into my inbox and send me the best of YOUR internet! 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