Influencers can make ideas visible, but they can also trap them inside social bubbles. Real change happens when an idea leaves the bubble and becomes part of everyday…
Read more The Influencer Silo: The Limits of Personality-Driven Social ChangeParis Hilton as Tinkerbell on Halloween night. Photo: Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Halloween is the Met Gala if the theme was “You can go full throttle, and it doesn’t matter…
Read more The Spookiest and Silliest Celebrity Halloween Costumes This YearPhoto-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: The Emoji Company, Jools Lebron via TikTok Oh, word? TikTok is expanding its vocabulary again. On August 2, TikToker Jools Lebron, @joolieannie, posted a video…
Read more See How We’re Breaking This Down? Very Demure.Is this a comedy or a drama? Photo: Courtesy J. Crew Good news, foodie bros, How Long Gone listeners, and Brooklyn dads: J.Crew has released a limited-edition line…
Read more J. Crew’s Collab With The Bear Is Not for the BearsEvery day you decide to log on to social media is another day you decide to return to the front lines of online battle, also known as discourse.…
Read more Aye, T, It’s Called ‘Socialist Sopranos Memes’Photo: Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images If you turned on cable news at 5:07 p.m. on Thursday, May 30, you watched the birth of a meme in real time. As…
Read more The Trump Verdict Memes Are for the History BooksAmanda: I got to the Portal in Manhattan’s Flatiron District a little before 11 am New York time, and found that there’s now a fence keeping people several…
Read more We Stood on Both Sides of the New York–Dublin Portal and It Was GloriousJust want her back. Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection ChatGPT better keep Colin Jost’s wife’s voice out of its mouth. The OpenAI voice “Sky,” which sounded eerily similar to…
Read more A ScarJo-Sounding AI Voice Is No Longer Her(e)The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner,…
Read more TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the SenateLeak the Ana de Armas cut. Photo: Daniel Pockett/Getty Images Over two years and thousands in legal fees later, we can all forget about the Yesterday lawsuit, much…
Read more The Yesterday Lawsuit Was Not Here to StayElon Musk reinvented the blue checkmark Wednesday night, regressing to an old Twitter policy where anyone with a certain amount of status gets a check. Now, accounts with…
Read more Elon Musk Punishing Popular X Users With Blue CheckmarksApril 3, 2024 5:02 PM EDT One woman’s recent journey through Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 opus Rumors led to a truly wholesome moment online. Raven Baxter, who goes by…
Read more Woman Discovers Fleetwood Mac in Wholesome Viral TweetWhat is a white boy of the month? The term originated on the social media app formerly known as Twitter, as most ubiquitous pillars of stan culture do.…
Read more Meet the Internet’s Award Season BoyfriendsWhen God closes a door (takes Taylor and Lana’s music off TikTok), he opens a window (gives us another Glee meme). And finally — finally! — everything is…
Read more It’s Kurt’s Turn (to Get Memed)Marc Sebastian is noticeably frazzled. The TikTok star—who recently disembarked Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruise after an 18-day stint on its nine-month global tour—is about to answer a…
Read more Marc Sebastian Talks About the Ultimate World CruiseEarlier this month, YouTube star MrBeast decided to take up an offer from Elon Musk to try out a monetization opportunity through revenue share payments on X (formerly…
Read more MrBeast X Video Experiment Raised ConcernsWhen Selkie, the fashion brand viral on Instagram and TikTok for its frothy, extravagant dresses, announces new collections, reception is generally positive. Known for its size inclusivity —…
Read more Selkie founder defends use of AI in new dress collection amid backlash | TechCrunchLogan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021. The catch? You can’t sue him if you…
Read more Logan Paul promises CryptoZoo refunds, as long as you don't sue him | TechCrunchTikTok is the perfect place to develop niche obsessions and find communities of like-minded content creators and consumers. And sometimes, those obsessions find their way out of their…
Read more A Nine-Month World Cruise is TikTok's Latest ObsessionRemember 2023? The answer can be no. It was a lot. Between a deluge of major games — Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Baldur’s Gate 3, Armored…
Read more Remembering the weirder news that happened in 2023
