Marines: Ten years ago, our very first post went up on what would become snarksquad.com. Ten years ago, I was 24 years old and struggling through a temporary job that wouldn’t hire me but that I also wouldn’t quit because I spent most of my day watching Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. I met the girls I launched this blog with because we all had personal blogs and mine was dedicated to a late-onset coming of age.
Nicole had just turned 23 and would soon be accepted to grad school in Paris. I don’t want to put words in her mouth, but when we took this trip down memory lane together this morning, she described herself as “extremely lost.” And then we laughed.
Thinking back to the people we were ten years ago really puts into perspective this anniversary for me. The best way that I can quantify what a decade even is is to think about who I am at 34 and who I was when I hit that post button for the first time. And whenever I think about who I am at 34, it is impossible to extricate how much who I am belongs to growing up with Nicole, and consequently, growing up with this blog. It is not an exaggeration to say that Snark Squad means the world to me.
When it was time to come up with a tagline for our podcast, it took us a while to settle on “a media podcast full of friendship, feelings and snark” but it has very much come to define everything we do. The friendship here isn’t just between Nicole and me, but with our entire community and all of the people we’ve been lucky enough to meet and form relationships with because of comment sections.
We’ve got just about 2,000 posts, 43,000 comments, 140 podcast episodes, and 145 videos over 10 years. This project has seen many iterations and has survived the thick and thin of our lives. It’s a place where we try things, and dream things, and don’t always finish things, but can still get excited to try something else. I love the things we make and any chance we get to make it.
Thank you for being a part of Snark Squad these past 10 years. I feel like I could have feelings about it forever, but we’ve got some celebrating to do! Keep an eye out on the blog, on Twitter, and if you are a Patron, on Patreon for little pieces of our big girl birthday celebration.
First up, though…. A NEW PROJECT.
You aren’t really surprised, are you? Here’s a new project with 10 years of lesson learning baked in, though: it’s an ~occasional~ series we cooked up independent of a schedule or timeline. Basically, Nicole and I are going to take turns picking a piece of media and predicting how the other will react to it. We started this project with Nicole’s pick for me: Bridgerton. It’s a really cute, fun video that does indeed have friendship and feelings and snark. And as an added perk, our Patrons can check out the 21 minute version of my Bridgerton watch-along on Patreon!
Happy birthday, Snark Squad!
Next time on Prophecy Girls: Mari picked The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan for Nicole to read. Will she like it?
I'm a 30-something south Floridan who loves the beach but cannot swim. Such is my life, full of small contradictions and little trivialities. My main life goals are never to take life too seriously, but to do everything I attempt seriously well. After that, my life goals devolve into things like not wearing pants and eating all of the Zebra Cakes in the world. THE WORLD.
Nicole is the co-captain of Snark Squad and these days she spends most of her time editing podcasts. She spends too much time on Twitter and very occasionally vlogs and blogs. In her day job she's a producer, editor, director, and sometimes host of educational YouTube channels. She loves travel, maps, panda gifs, and semicolons. Writing biographies stresses her out; she crowd sourced this one years ago and has been using a version of it ever since. She would like to thank Twitter for their help.
