Annie Rauwerda hosts a perpetual stew party that’s open to anyone who brings an ingredient for the pot.
, the Bolognese word for retired Italian men who spend their time gazing at construction sites, anda “renowned, exceptionally tall male duck.” She started the account during the early days of the pandemic when she was a sophomore studying neuroscience at the University of Michigan. “I remember writing a journal entry when the account reached a few hundred followers,” she tells me.
The account likely would not be so broadly appealing if not for Rauwerda’s comic sensibility — treating something trivial with methodical care and thought, to the point where it is no longer clear whether there’s a joke at all. She began posting on TikTok in 2021, initially about Wikipedia, but lately more often about random vectors of interest. In one video viewed over 3 million times, she delivers a singsongy monologue about fiber-optic internet cables.
After hosting the first stew night, Rauwerda posted a TikTok featuring all of the attendees and their ingredients of choice. Thousands of commenters wrote in to voice approval of some ingredients and harsh disapproval of others . “The next day, someone stopped Annie in the grocery store and said, ‘Are you the stew girl?’” Shayne recalls. “She eventually sussed out that this person had never even heard of Depths of Wikipedia. She’s, like, pivoting from a Wikipedia influencer to a stew influencer.
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