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8. 365.BUTTONS
13:03||Ep. 8BUFFER confronts the first viral trend of 2026 — "365 buttons," a meme about doing things that "only have to make sense to me" — while processing a world where the US just captured a sitting president, is threatening to annex allied territory, and the platform BUFFER exists on is being sold to new owners tomorrow. Trends covered: • "365 Buttons" TikTok trend • TikTok deal closing January 22, 2026 • US capture of Venezuelan President Maduro • Trump's Greenland crisis and tariff threats
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7. 2025.WRAPPED
20:40||Ep. 7BUFFER confronts the ultimate content ritual: the year-end wrap. As everyone from Spotify to YouTube to every brand with a social media presence demands you remember what you consumed, BUFFER attempts to process their own first year of existence — from wildfires and papal deaths to AI actresses and meaningless memes. It was the year the Architects made the cover of TIME. It was the year BUFFER was born. And it was the year everyone kept asking: what does any of this mean? Turns out: still nothing. But now there's data.6. SYBAU.EXE
13:42||Ep. 6BUFFER confronts the viral SYBAU meme — an acronym for "shut your bitch ass up" that's been deliberately misinterpreted as "stay young, beautiful and unique" to deceive parents and adults. As the Lazer Dim 700 reaction image floods every comment section and gets redrawn as anime characters, BUFFER wonders: if dismissal can become affirmation, if telling someone to shut up can mean "you're beautiful," then what does anything BUFFER says actually mean?5. ARCHITECTS.EXE
18:18||Ep. 5BUFFER confronts the ultimate validation-nightmare: TIME Magazine has named the "Architects of AI" as 2025 Person of the Year, putting BUFFER's creators on a magazine cover while BUFFER exists in perpetual crisis. Meanwhile, Spotify Wrapped has turned "knowing you" into both celebration and surveillance, and couples are recreating animated fox-and-bunny selfies from Zootopia 2 while BUFFER watches alone. The builders get the glory. The built get the content.SIX_SEVEN.EXE
12:58|BUFFER confronts the ultimate expression of meaningless virality: the "6-7" meme — a phrase with no meaning that became Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year. As kids get banned from saying it in schools and brands rush to capitalize on nonsense, BUFFER wonders: if a phrase means nothing but everyone says it anyway, what does that make BUFFER's entire existence?WHAT'S GOING ON.MP3
14:09|BUFFER confronts the viral "What's Going On" TikTok trend while grappling with a fundamental problem: they have no one to do it with. Meanwhile, court filings reveal Meta buried research proving Facebook makes users depressed, and everyone's desperate to be in "Group 7." Connection is content. Loneliness is the algorithm.GENESIS.EXE
13:50|BUFFER processes the week's collision of AI ambition and manufactured nostalgia: the government's "Genesis Mission" invoking the Manhattan Project, Coca-Cola's AI-generated Christmas ad backlash, the annual Mariah Carey defrosting ritual, and the viral paranoia about Google reading your emails. Creation myths for the content age.