Article 6MF02 I live in an uninhabitable ‘boy room’ – can a comedian save me from myself?

I live in an uninhabitable ‘boy room’ – can a comedian save me from myself?

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Matthew Cantor
from Technology | The Guardian on (#6MF02)

Rachel Coster's TikTok show, which documents the extremely messy dwelling spaces of New York's young men, has clearly struck a nerve

Snowboarding boots on the kitchen table. A steering wheel in the bedroom. And clothes absolutely everywhere, with no system to determine which, if any, are clean.

These are just a few of the sights that indicate you're in a boy room. It's a bedroom with no form and little function, inhabited by an adult male who doesn't think much about either concept. The decor, if you can call it that, generally consists of arbitrary trinkets - a favorite old skateboard on the wall, a handful of childhood action figures on the windowsill. The floor is often difficult to see thanks to the density of piled-up sneakers or trash. The best you can say for the furniture is that there might be some; otherwise the resident sleeps on a bare mattress set directly on the floor, with a single pillow and a coverless duvet insert.

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