News An irreverent hot tub repairman from Everett is poking fun at the region’s iconic places and characters—before they’re gone. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Mall photo via Getty/Boston Globe | Screenshots via @squareonemallgothMany have tried, and failed, to fully capture the spirit of Greater Boston in works of fiction, documentaries, books, and folklore. As real Bostonians actually know, the Boston vibe is not a monolith. It’s often a patchwork of regional peculiarities, with obsessions and cultural touchstones understood fully only by those who are deeply invested in them. People like the Square One Mall Goth, a small but growing account on Instagram dedicated to mocking, and celebrating, the North Shore with irreverent fervor—cracking jokes about everything from its various trashy stereotypes to its fixation on gaudy destinations like its behemoth roadside cacti, and its beloved Kowloon. I’ve been following this account for a couple months now, and I can’t keep it to myself any longer.Scroll through it for a pitch-perfect, often crude, and frequently hilarious send-up of what it’s actually like to grow up on the North Shore.The imagineer behind this collection of extremely hyperlocal memes…
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Meet the Square One Mall Goth, the Instagram Sage of the North Shore – Boston Magazine
