It’s not conspiratorial to be worried about social media’s rightward swing
Many Instagram users this week had their scrolling interrupted by the bearded visage of our newly elected Vice President JD ...
Tag: Internet Culture
The bright side of TikTok’s downfall
The TikTok ban seems imminent. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would spell the end of TikTok ...
Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?
For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified that a social media ...
Did my quest to become beautiful just make me uglier?
Sometime last spring, I decided to glow up. This is an extremely embarrassing thing to admit, or at least it ...
Crumbl’s massive empire was never about the cookies
The age of froyo has faded. Fancy cupcakes are passé. The cronut craze is now a distant fever dream. Dessert ...
Why did the internet lose its mind about a woman getting a PhD?
In late November, a woman posted a photo of herself proudly holding her PhD thesis along with the announcement that ...
Wicked hits Instagram and TikTok, with more than a little help from fans
There’s a code of conduct for the multiplex experience, deliberately broadcast right before a movie: When the lights start to ...
Why there’s so much gossip and speculation about the Wicked press tour
Over the past few years, the public has stopped treating movie press tours like marketing fluff and started treating them ...
It’s probably time you learned about the Costco Guys
One of my colleagues has a theory: If you know the Rizzler, you might not have been surprised that Kamala ...
Want to understand why Trump won the election? Look at pop culture.
Earlier this 12 months, conservatives on social media claimed an unlikely new icon. It wasn’t a podcaster with questionable views ...
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