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March 9, 2023

When Quitting Videos Go Viral

On TikTok and YouTube, workers are sharing their stories of leaving their jobs, giving them a sense of power over often untenable situations. The Bright Side is […]
February 14, 2023

The Changing Online Language of Hearts

The Changing Online Language of Hearts Erik Carter How to show a heart — the universal symbol of love — has shifted on the internet over […]
December 19, 2022

The Unsinkable Memes of ‘Titanic’

How a movie released before the iMac became a mainstay of internet culture. Katee Forbis often encounters a GIF on social media that shows a white-haired […]
November 15, 2022

Pop Stars Are Mugging for TikTok. Fans Are Loving It.

Performers like Dua Lipa and Rosalía are peppering their tours with dance moves and gestures that can seem specifically engineered to go viral. In some cases, […]
October 9, 2022

A Minecraft Player Set Out to Build the Known Universe, Block by Block

Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets. He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth. Christopher Slayton spent two months […]
October 7, 2022

Snorting Crushed Porcelain, Face Reveals and a TikTok Lawsuit

The week in internet things. Nobody is grinding up porcelain dishes into a fine powder and snorting it like cocaine. I repeat, nobody — not the […]
September 30, 2022

Hurricane Ian Brings Wind, Rain and TikTok Followers

Users livestreamed from their homes to document their experiences as they rode out the storm. Despite living in an evacuation zone, Alecsander Haake did not leave […]
September 16, 2022

For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine

When Ja’Kobi Moore decided to apply this year to a private high school in her hometown of New Orleans, she learned that she needed at least […]
July 19, 2022

Sashay Away!

An erstwhile influencer from Fiji clocked 28 million page views with a homemade video of him strutting a runway wearing a ladder, a bench and other […]
June 29, 2022

These TikTok Creators Are Fighting Health Myths

Meet the medical experts fighting bogus science, one “stitch” at a time. “I’m willing to bet you know at least one girl that’s using steroids every […]