Cleaning out my phone's photo gallery: wipe them out. All of them.
A Wipe Them Out, All of Them post.
There are 3,412 unread emails in your inbox. Some are from 2019. One is probably from your bank, and one is probably important. You select all. One fruit fly in the kitchen this morning. By lunch, twelve. By dinner, you've bought a spray, a trap, a little dish of vinegar and a second fridge. Forty-two open tabs on your laptop. You don't know what most of them are. You never will. You close the window without looking back. The weeds come back every spring. This year you've rented a flamethrower. Your neighbours have questions, and so does the fire brigade. **Why it caught on:** in The Phantom Menace (1999) Sidious, hooded and flickering, tells Nute Gunray how to handle the two Jedi who have just turned up on his ship: "Wipe them out. All of them." Calm, short and enormous, it became the sub's order for every inbox, browser and fridge that needs a clean slate.