One-minute video life updates - the Wednesday Waffle - have become a phenomenon among friend groups. Eleanor Peake embraces it
‘I have found myself feeling fulfilled by these weekly videos in a way I never have from voice notes,’ says Eleanor PeakeLast week, my friend burnt her hand while cooking. Another was worried about a client presentation, while the next was angry at her boyfriend. I only know this because every Wednesday, my best friends send a video detailing the tiny minutiae of their day. I receive these videos either on my morning commute or as I’m cooking dinner, and I soak them up like a sponge.
I share weekly video clips to a group of eight friends, who I used to live with for several years, some of them close to a decade. I used to know all about their daily anxieties, their embarrassing stories and their latest fads. I knew the time they liked to have dinner and their night-time routine. If they weren’t living in my house, they lived just down the road. We shared emergency house keys and weekends.
The Waffle is a tonic to this natural waning. Since introducing this weekly ritual, my group chat has been filled with short ramblings about the comings and goings of life. The banal, and sometimes crucial, things you miss when you no longer live together in the same house or the same city. I have found myself feeling fulfilled by these weekly videos in a way I never have from voice notes, which feel like a long, faceless podcast: lacking the laughter of a phone call, whilst having none of the connection of a FaceTime. The Waffle fills the place of both; a bitesize substitute for a weekly group call which would otherwise be impossible, not to mention time-consuming amongst the endless tasks of the day.
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