A key component of the Stan Twitter culture is its contrast with Local Twitter; individuals deemed part of Local Twitter are colloquially referred to as simply locals.[1][2][40] The Verge likened local to past terms such as square and normie.[41] The publication wrote that "much like being basic, but online, 'local Twitter' describes someone who loves decidedly, even painfully mainstream things."[41] The Atlantic described Local Twitter as a group of "mostly white, well-adjusted suburban teens who share stale platitudes of the kind that some Internet users might call 'basic'."[7] Local Twitter is also sometimes referred to as Bare Minimum Twitter.[40] Polygon defined Local Twitter as the "general population of Twitter—people not congregated around specific interests or in defined communities."[9] In the context of Stan Twitter terminology, local is similar to a pejorative term.