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Yes, it’s understood that our personal vessels are undergoing immense changes nowadays; gamma rays, a thinning ozone, and cell phone radio frequencies challenge the integrity of our flesh. But the common sentiment with these sorts of global, intangible, and even abstract threats is: “put it on the backburner until the water really starts to boil.” A head in the sand. And who can be blamed? Who wants to know what goes on behind the proverbial reality-curtain while we toil on our apps and our experience-tourism, or travail, already begrudgingly, knowing we’re still only getting by by the hair of our chins, so long as those new carbon copy condos continue to rise from the dirt. So yes, it’s a tough swallow, and you can certainly go back to your regular scheduled programming of meme-intaking, Grindr meet up-flaking, and Co-Star astrology chart-making. But most importantly, look down.
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What is it?
A growth? A subcutaneous calcified enigma altering our posture and adding a few ozs, and perhaps, lbs to our already cumbersome noggins?
Enlarged External Occipital Protuberances, or EEOPs for short, is the parlance which explains the nascent phenomena. There’s certainly one thing you can’t ignore, and that’d probably be protruding horns. They can’t be hidden! Put a cloth over to hide them and it’ll probably look like a misplaced member. Who, might you ask, is the fool commandeering this absurd finding? Well, that’d be the researchers at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Down Under, of course.
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You’d be remiss not to think the hours we spend on our devices bending our head-proppers in such a twisted fashion would yield zero consequences. “Text neck,” it’s called. And apparently, it’s nothing new. Nothing new, in that the elderly are already known to develop these tiny hook-like bone addendums as they wither and wizen. Gen Z, however, are not withered and wizened, but rather green, encumbered and bewitched by the allure and farce of digital approbation.
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The implications of Gen Z horn development mustn’t be ignored; recognize our inevitably perturbed sleeping patterns, think about the size queens and perfectionists, don’t forget the horn-positivity in selfie production. Perhaps, most importantly, consider the fashion. Maybe the emerging spikes in the back of our heads present a whole new opportunity.
Maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Is evolution progressing that quickly? Hell, come to
think of it, some new studies even suggest the initial study of horns was a spoiled one to begin with. We read a suspect study at best, and all we got were these beautifully-rendered neck-horn drawings. Consider these.
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Illustrations by [Alexandre Korobov](https://www.alexandrekorobov.com)
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