Once upon a time, the algorithm served me a popular video that showed a man using archispeak to describe the glass facade of a building. It was, as they say, “too real.” The archispeaker was the Australian Nick White, a “silly gay comedian based in Melbourne,” who became popular for his videos on TikTok and Instagram (399,400 and 136,000 followers, respectively, as of press time) in addition to his stand-up sets. A sliver of his material is about buildings—White has undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture and worked in the field before pursuing comedy fulltime—but more of it, like his “that” coworker character, was inspired by the annoyances of
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