Social Media

It’s been a banner weekend for zombification. TikTok was found dead in its U.S. residence on Saturday following a lethal collision with the Supreme Court. The popular social media app — owned by the Chinese […]

Earlier this week, the California Highway Patrol sent an Amber Alert push notification to phones in the Los Angeles area about a 14-year-old girl that authorities believed had been abducted. But instead of conveying vital […]

Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez is among the first group of artists to be commissioned as part of Boston’s Un-Monument initiative. The artist is seen here working on his large-scale public artwork “Souledad,” located in Boston’s South […]

Joey Chestnut emerges victorious after eating 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes during the 2022 Nathans Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City. The country’s most notorious hot dog-eating […]

This week, as YouTuber Jenny Nicholson’s review/eulogy for the shuttered Disney Star Wars hotel started making the rounds, I was curious. I’d of course heard about the “immersive experience” officially called Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, […]

After two weeks of outrage, Harrison Butker‘s controversial commencement speech finally resulted in someone’s firing — it just wasn’t the Chiefs’ placekicker who lost his job — but instead, a member of the City of […]

A TikTok movement is calling for followers to block famous people over their stances on the Israel-Hamas war. It began at the Met Gala. As protests over the war in Gaza unfolded blocks away, last […]

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a law that could effectively ban TikTok if the company does not divest from ByteDance, its Chinese owner, in the next 12 months. But the law, which sped through […]

On Tuesday, the Senate passed a massive foreign aid package that included an ultimatum for TikTok: Divest or be banned from operating within the US. The package was approved by the House of Representatives on […]

Now in its 16th season, RuPaul’s Drag Race has birthed more than a few iconic lip-sync battles, but precious few have featured Muppets. None, even. AI Drag Race changed that. In the Instagram account’s recent […]