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2025 Is the Year of Spit
Saliva is everywhere.
At the film’s halfway point, right before all hell (literally) breaks loose, Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) brings her ex-boyfriend Stack (Jordan) into the back room of his new juke joint. Salivapalooza didn’t kick off with Sinners but with a little-known video of a woman named Haliey Welch explaining how to “hawk tuah.” Then there was a rare (now-deleted) Instagram carousel posted almost one year ago with a photo of Lorde leaning over a balcony in a black dress with a rivulet of white spit coming out of her mouth. There were not one but two spit- or drool-related scandals in this season of Love Island, especially when Hannah spit directly into Charlie’s mouth in a moment that had one Reddit user “laughing, blushing, horrified, and cheering her on all at once.”In Andrew DeYoung’s movie Friendship, an enraged neighbor played by Conner O’Malley spits with ire at Tim Robinson’s wimpy Craig for abandoning his wife in the sewer.
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