Toby Geeks Out!

I just learned about vagueposting; it isn't new — the term dates back to 2011 — but 2026 is when it took over. According to Know Your Meme, it evolved from vaguebooking, a Facebook phenomenon that goes all the way back to 2009. Zari Taylor, a digital culture researcher at NYU, puts it best:

"It allows everyone who's interacting with it to place their own definition or guesses on what the person's talking about."

The perfect example? Tamara went viral after buying 365 buttons as her 2026 rebrand — and refusing to explain why.

Via Rolling Stone

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Toby Overstreet is a curious mind who has been blogging on and off since 2004 and still hasn't figured out how to stop. He launched Toby Geeks Out! as a space to share his honest, unfiltered takes on whatever has his attention that week. Whether he's documenting the latest technological shift, diving into neurodivergence topics, or exploring a wide variety of new subjects, Toby loves to follow his curiosity wherever it leads. He writes for the sheer joy of discovery and the satisfaction of making a complicated topic feel like a conversation. He lives in a tiny house in Kentucky, where he can usually be found reading, working on an adult coloring book, watching something new on streaming, or quietly eyeing a LEGO set he has no room for.