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An image from the fourth season of Stranger ThingsTina Rowden/Netflix It's not just a TV series. Stranger Things has become a common language, a cultural reference, a collective event that brings together serial binge-watchers, those nostalgic for the 1980s, and new generations who grew up on streaming. But why, season after season, does it continue to dominate online conversations, Google searches, and social feeds? Here are five key reasons that explain the global success o

You open Instagram “just for five minutes.” You close TikTok after an hour. You start watching an episode on Netflix and, without realizing it, you're already on the third season. Meanwhile, you ignore one message, then two, then disappear altogether. Welcome to the world of digital Anglicisms: words born online that describe everyday behaviors related to technology. The point is that they don't describe others. They describe us. In recent years, language has adapted to a lif