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The Wildcat Tribune

The official student news site of Dougherty Valley High School.

The Wildcat Tribune

The official student news site of Dougherty Valley High School.

The Wildcat Tribune

Incoming freshman profiles often feel like a social media performance.

Incoming freshman pages on social media only add stress

Ariel Liu, Arts & Entertainment Copy Editor June 14, 2026

With graduation season and college commitments in full swing, pages for incoming college freshmen are becoming a frequent sight on social media. These class accounts are often found on Instagram as @NameOfCollegeClassOf2030....

Social media fuels our cycle of cynicism

Cynicism shouldn’t be our safety net

Asrita Yelisetti, Web Manager April 15, 2026

Neurons that fire together, wire together. Every single time we engage ourselves in negative thinking, our brains strengthen the neural pathways associated with those thoughts. The more we think negatively,...

Media eats the young.

Whatever it takes to get your attention

Luke Santorsiero, Multimedia Editor April 13, 2026

When profit is equivalent to the amount of time users spend watching corporations’ content, they’ll do whatever it takes to kidnap your attention. And the trend gets even more true with children’s...

2026 only looks like 2016 if you rip it out of context.

2026 closes the tab on 2016

Ariel Liu, Arts & Entertainment Copy Editor February 15, 2026

Emerging from the flurry that was 2025, the catchphrase “2026 is the new 2016” has taken hold in the new year. The viral TikTok trend is a throwback to a time when things were apparently simpler —...

People feel rewarded for doing the bare minimum of advocacy, making them not want to take actual activism measures.

How the algorithm ate our activism

Sumedha Chivukula, Arts & Entertainment Editor November 2, 2025

We live in an age where all activism efforts fit neatly into a cropped and hashtagged box. Justice trends for only 24 hours before vanishing beneath a new viral sound. In this era of performative compassion,...

Even family bonds can be broken over time if effort is not made to maintain them.

Family love is earned not granted

Inika Katragadda, Opinions Editor October 5, 2025

Siblings consume the position of being the headache creators, the snack thieves and the relentless copycats. Throughout the last 15 years, my sister has perfected all three of these roles, leaving me with...

TikTok debate gathers students’ opinions

Zoe Alcause, Managing Editor May 27, 2025

As of January 2025, ByteDance’s popular app, TikTok, has faced potential ban in America due governmental concern for national security. The Supreme Court upheld a law on Jan. 19, creating the “Protecting...

How much are you willing to overlook?

Stopping corporate nice guys

Luke Santorsiero, Multimedia Editor May 26, 2025

We all know deep down that corporations are just downright evil. I think it’s a bit hard to look at a corporation like Nestle, which is responsible for a minimum of 10.9 million infant deaths, and still...

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