From innovative vloggers to controversial streamers to bone fide TikTok stars, here are the people making a splash on social media How do you measure a creator’s influence? There are endless ways to answer that. […]
Dylan Mulvaney Addresses Right-Wing Backlash Over Bud Light Endorsement
Stronger Than Ever “Dehumanization has never fixed anything in history, ever,” said the popular content creator Earlier this month transgender actor and activist Dylan Mulvaney partnered with Bud Light to celebrate both March Madness and Day […]
Bluesky Becomes the Hottest Club Online as Twitter Users Fight for Invites
Imagine a distant future in which humans compete for passenger seats on a spaceship headed away from this dying Earth to a more habitable planet. That’s more or less the current scene on Twitter — […]
Farewell Jerry Springer, the Patron Saint of American Dysfunction
R.I.P. to the great Jerry Springer, who died Thursday at 79. This man revolutionized daytime TV — he was the Martha Graham of afternoon talk-show slap-and-punch choreography. His eponymously titled show was a beautifully bizarre […]
‘It Is Easy for a Person to Disappear’: Accused Murderer Suggests Missing Wife Ran Away
Brian Walshe, who following his wife’s disappearance went on a cleaning-supplies shopping spree and reportedly Googled “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body,” has again pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ana Walshe. […]
UN and Coachella Artists Fight Climate-Induced Hunger
Coming Together “[Music can] wake up and excite a whole future generation to be with us, to change perspectives and mentalities,” said musician Jupiter Bokondji United Nations representatives from Kenya, Sudan, Guatemala, and the Netherlands […]
E. Jean Carroll Recounts ‘Extremely Painful’ Rape, Trump Stays Home Shitposting
“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me.” That’s how E. Jean Carroll opened her testimony on Wednesday against Donald Trump in Manhattan Federal Court, according to the Associated Press. She continued, “When I wrote about […]
‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ Is the Space Opera Simulator Fans Need
Rebellions are built on hope and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is an ambitious action-adventure saga that retraces that belief to drive an exhilarating new entry in the galactic pantheon. The sequel to 2019’s Jedi: Fallen […]
How Keke Palmer Became Hollywood’s Content Queen
It’s a breezy Monday afternoon in New York, and Keke Palmer — actor, director, singer, dancer, professional multitasker — is doing an interview while working on her latest gig: being a new mom. The wind […]
Witness in University of Idaho Killings Asks Judge to Quash Subpoena
One of the roommates of the University of Idaho students killed last November is trying to quash a subpoena demanding she attend an upcoming hearing for suspect Bryan Kohberger, NBC News reports. The fight is […]
‘He Lit Up the Stage’: Family Mourns Taylor Swift Fan Killed After Concert
When April Bancroft thinks about her little brother Jacob Lewis, there are so many good memories that it’s hard to choose a favorite. She can remember having to blare music next to his bed to […]
Madison Beer’s Nudes Leaked at 15. A Decade Later, They Still Haunt Her
Madison Beer came of age on the internet. After being discovered by Justin Bieber on YouTube when she was just a preteen, she shot to fame as an influencer and pop musician, becoming an unwitting […]