Social Media

September 4, 2020

Instagram Is Coming for Your Sock Drawer

Khloé Kardashian’s color-coded hair-extension closet might sound like some kind of art installation about late-stage capitalism, but it’s actually a thing that exists in Kardashian’s Los […]
August 29, 2020

What Is Waacking, and Why Is It All Over TikTok?

Princess Lockerooo is a whirling force with a singular focus: spreading the gospel of waacking. For more than a decade, the 34-year-old devotee of the retro […]
August 29, 2020

Christmas Time Is … Here?

Hannah Smith is “usually not one of those people who gets excited about Christmas in July,” she said. This year has been different, though. On July […]
August 28, 2020

College Is Everywhere Now

As the fall semester begins, many college students will be attending classes from the relative safety of their family homes. Others have arrived to live on […]
August 28, 2020

Keke Palmer Keeps a Check

If you have ever seen a peregrine falcon slice cleanly through the pale dawn to capture and dismember a starling midair, you have a rough idea […]
August 25, 2020

How the Hollywood Fix Cornered the Influencer Paparazzi Market

Fletcher Greene, 38, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the internet’s dramas and daily displays. He can tell you which influencers are feuding, who hosted a socially […]
August 25, 2020

The New Pandemic Flash Point: Your Vacation

Michael Huxley has been getting called out a lot lately. His sin? Traveling during the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Huxley flew to Spain from Liverpool a few […]
August 21, 2020

The Pandemic Diary of Naomi Shimada, a Model Returning to Work

Like many, the model Naomi Shimada has been using the extra time at home during the pandemic as a chance to pause and reflect on what […]
August 12, 2020

He’s Sharing the History of Black New York, One Tweet at a Time

When a video of a racist attack on Black children by white residents of Rosedale, Queens, in 1975 was posted on Twitter last summer, it quickly […]
August 12, 2020

We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud.

Millions of people have used the social media app TikTok to make and share short, fun, entertaining videos. I, Brian Chen, am not one of them. […]