The Australian Breaker Who Broke the Internet
Before some of them were taken down, the memes about Australian Olympic breaker Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, were all about…
How Camo Hats Became an Instant Meme
On Tuesday, when Vice President Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz to be her running mate in her bid for US…
Welcome to the Weird Era
What liberals are pushing back against, then, is seeing all of these things cobbled together and demonized. “This moment is…
‘The Acolyte’ and the Long-Awaited Death of Review-Bombing
You know you’ve gone too deep into YouTube fandom when you can’t remember which dude with an expensive microphone told…
Taylor Swift Will Define Super Bowl 2024 Just by Showing Up
Over the past two weeks, Taylor Swift has made headlines dozens of times. Only one, maybe two of those instances…
Apple’s Vision Pro Is Trying to Solve a Nearly Unsolvable Problem
Netflix didn’t come to play. Neither did YouTube. Following the Apple Vision Pro’s big preorder rollout two weeks ago, news…
‘The Last of Us’ Was the Most Pirated Show of 2023
“The reality is a lot of people have one streaming platform, maybe two, but not all of them,” Chatterley says.…
How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books
For bookworms, reading a headline like “School District Uses ChatGPT to Help Remove Library Books” can be blood boiling. As…
Marvel’s VFX Workers Have Moved to Unionize—and It’s a Huge Deal for Hollywood
One of the many knock-on effects of Marvel making post-credit scenes a feature of the studio’s cinematic universe is that…
Meeting Sinéad O’Connor in a Cracker Barrel Parking Lot, 1998
Sinéad O’Connor was seated amongst the Amish folks. Whoever gave her that table most likely knew what they were doing.…
