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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Happy New Year!

Now that the holidays are officially over,

I'm looking at what's in and what's out in tech for 2024.

And to do that, I joined my friend Samantha and Annie

over at the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You

to run through what we should be leaving in 2023.

I got to ask, what tech things are you leaving in 2020? After you listen to the episode,

be sure to let me know.

For the topic today that you brought us, you're talking about some of the things

tech in the tech world that we should leave behind or want to be behind.

Exactly. Yeah. If you all know that cartoon that you might see on Twitter a lot where it's like a woman stepping from one year to the next and behind her she's leaving behind all of this baggage from the previous year, like fake friends or heartbreak,

and then across over her shoulder, she's carrying what she's carrying into the next year.

So, like, love or focus.

Do you know the image that I'm talking about?

I don't.

I had never seen it.

But I'm looking at it now.

Yes.

So, fun fact about that image, it was created by a British Ghanaian graphic artist named Peniel and Schell, and it first appeared on the internet in 2014. And BuzzFeed has a great interview with her, but basically this image has been totally mumified. And it kind of pops up around this time of year, every year, to sort of fit the theme of like New Year, New Me. Sometimes it's a joke, which this artist says that she doesn't always agree

with or like the way that people like do their spins on it. But it's really become a part of like

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