“If you buy her one margarita, she will spread her legs!” If you’re even a casual user of TikTok, you’ve probably heard this line before. It’s from a speech by Cynthia Smock, a campus evangelist […]
As Twitter Falters, Threads Surpasses 5 Million Sign Ups on Day One
Within four hours of launching Threads, Mark Zuckerberg posted that 5 million people had registered on the platform. The Twitter competitor went live in the App Store on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected, and […]
Why Are So Many People Searching for Barbie Fetish Porn?
The release of the Barbie trailer earlier this year has had the effect of getting an entire swath of Americans excited about seeing Ryan Gosling in Day-Glo knee pads. Among a slightly smaller swath of […]
Why Did GQ Delete an Article Calling David Zaslav the ‘Most Hated Man in Hollywood’?
Most days, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav can’t catch a break in the media, which endlessly details his stumbles and failures as head of a content monolith. But it seems he may still have […]
A Kennedy Himbo’s Viral Rant Is Making Nepo Babies Look Good
With the Eat the Rich movement in full force and RFK Jr. spewing nonsense about antidepressants and vaccines as part of his campaign strategy, the Kennedy legacy has taken somewhat of a beating as of […]
Bad Weather Makes for a Chaotic Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
With every Fourth of July comes a few guarantees: Fireworks, cookouts, and the assurance that Joey Chestnut will hork down enough hot dogs in a 10-minute span to feed a small village. In what is […]
Anti-Sunscreen Influencers Want to Fry Your Skin
This summer, like many before, a lot of people won’t wear sunblock. The difference you might notice this year is just how many are proudly posting about it. James Middleton is a fitness coach in […]
As Elon Musk Sets Twitter on Fire, Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads Teases Launch
Meta Moves Looks like we’ll be seeing that cage fight sooner than later Last month, a tweet about Facebook developing a Twitter rival led to Mark Zuckerberg accepting a cage match challenge from fellow tech billionaire Elon […]
YouTuber Grace Helbig Reveals Cancer Diagnosis: ‘I’m Ready to Take This On’
YouTuber Grace Helbig has been diagnosed with breast cancer. In a seven-minute-long video shared to the nearly three million subscribers on her channel, Helbig expressed optimism about her medical team’s proposed treatment plans. In the […]
Influencers Mildly Inconvenienced by Police Shooting Protests During Paris Couture Week
“OK the past few weeks have been MANICCC,” Masoom Minawala Mehta, a lifestyle and fashion influencer with 1.3 million Instagram, posted in her stories on Sunday. In addition to dealing with events in her personal […]
#TwitterDown: Elon Musk Limits Tweet-Reading Due to ‘System Manipulation’
Rate Limit Exceeded App suffers one of the longest and strangest outages of the Chief Twit’s era Thousands of Twitter users were stuck fruitlessly reloading their feeds Saturday as the app faced one of the […]
The Transphobic War on the Word ‘Cis’ Goes Back an Entire Decade
A little over a week ago, Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that targeted harassment on the site would lead to account suspensions — which had been company policy well before he bought the social platform […]