Bird is the word.

Huh, I think this is the first time I've seen this comic without the caption "OnLy FiVe PeOpLe WiLl GeT tHiS 🤪"

It's weird though. Pencils were never a good way to transport tape. It was also investigated that only certain Japanese pencils fit as these are bigger. In my memory we always used a BIC ballpoint pen which fits perfectly.

It’s the opposite for me. I live in a place that gets fairly humid during different times of the year so cassettes don’t often make it If they were left in a car or a garage or something similar. Whereas most of the CDs that survived my teenage years still work.