50k note tumblr post: i call my girl Cran cause she’s Berries
tiktok voice overlay on top of a slideshow of popular tumblr posts: i call my girl Cran cause she’s Berries
redbubble tshirt that somebody made of the tumblr post: i call my girl Cran cause she’s Berries
screenshot on twitter that somebody captioned “who else misses tumblr”: i call my girl Cran cause she’s Berries
another tiktok but this time it’s an influencer with 100k followers: i call my girl Cran cause she’s Berries
that influencer on the jimmy kimmel show a month later: yeah jimmy it’s hard to say where my inspiration comes from. i just… i think when i wrote the line “i call my girl Cran cause she’s Berries” it was just sort of a spur-of-the-moment thing, but it turned out to be something that everyone can relate to, which is really heart-warming. it’s one of those things that, like, reminds me that i can uplift people and be a voice for them. yeah i do have a new makeup line coming out, “Cran and Bloom,” which was inspired by my now-famous tiktok
mcdonald’s: we’re introducing the new Cran Meal with Berries Sauce
This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”
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