Over the Summer Tik TikTok saw an uprise of a trend including the “Grimace Shake” from McDonald’s. The lovable purple-haired ‘thing’ has been a part of McDonald’s media franchise, “McDonaldland”. According to McDonald’s, Grimace is supposedly the very embodiment of a milkshake. One of the main attributes of his character was that he would always…
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2023 Trends – Dropshipping
One of the biggest trends regarding business in 2023 is dropshipping. Dropshipping is where an entrepreneur opens up an online shop, most frequently on a website called Shopify. They then acquire products from a producer and sell them to a customer for a higher price. All of the students at Avonworth that we interviewed…
Hallway Coat Racks Helping A Little, Also Underused
After the removal of lockers last summer, coat hangers were installed along two hallways this fall as a way for students to hang their coats and athletic bags. However, it seems that the few students who do use the racks only use them for coats. Athletes such as Calder Mahan and Jackson Shields say “I…
Steelers Struggles
The Steelers have many questions floating around after losing two straight games at home to two two-win teams. After the firing of Matt Canada, things looked up for the Pittsburgh Steelers offense as they put up over 400 yards of offense for the first time in over 3 years in the first game without Matt…
2023 Spotify Wrapped Top Podcast Topics: Could Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?
The 2023 Spotify Wrapped was released last week, and alongside it, a collection of data from Spotify’s users has become available on the internet. As part of the collected information, the most streamed podcasts and their respective most listened-to episodes become valuable instruments to track trends and notorious topics across the web. As pointed out…
Spotify Wrapped 2023: Taylor Swift Dominates
J1 students paused at the end of November to find out about what AHS students listened to, how they felt about it, and their thoughts about students Spotify Wrapped for 2023 and the Spotify Artist of the Year, Taylor Swift. Attitudes ranged from full fandom to not that interested and over to angry. “I…
2023 Spotify Wrapped Top Podcast Topics: Taylor Swift- The Eras Tour
Taylor Swift just wrapped up her first year on her International World Eras Tour. Breaking countless attendance records in stadiums across the globe, Swift has single-handedly made history by touring in 2023. She started her tour on March 17th, 2023 in Glendale Arizona. From even before her first show, Swift was attracting extreme amounts of…
2023 Spotify Wrapped Top Podcast Topics: Tom Brady’s Retirement
Following his 22nd season in the NFL, On February 1st, 2023 quarterback Tom Brady made his retirement official and hung up the cleats. In his storied career, Brady racked up 7 Super Bowl wins, the most passing yards in league history, and was ranked as the best player ever by the NFL Top 100 Players…
2023 Spotify Wrapped Top Podcast Stories: The OceanGate Titan Submarine – A Disaster Waiting to happen
On June 18, 2023, the world was taken aback when a submarine that was touring the Titanic wreck went missing. The debris was found 4 days later, confirming the deaths of the 5 passengers. The Titanic wreckage might be one of the most known shipwrecks world wide, and has captured a wide audience of people…
2023 Trends: “Roman Empire”: What is it?
Many are asking about the viral TikTok saying “Roman Empire”. What exactly does it all mean? The catchy phrase started by girls asking boys, “how often do you think about the Roman Empire?” To which they repeatedly replied, 2 times a day…” This trend is meant to poke fun at the stereotypical differences between men…