digital culture
What ‘The Last of Us’ Season Premiere’s Final Moments Really Mean
These tensions emerge in season 2 in Jackson, Wyoming, where dozens of survivors of the Cordyceps plague have built a ...
SignalGate Is Making People Rethink Who’s in Their Group Chats
Tom Linnemann considered himself a Twitter loyalist until fairly recently. “It was the greatest invention in the world,” he says ...
Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
But the frustrations around new social platforms isn’t new. Networks will continue to pop up, ideally, and longtime users will ...
The Founder of OnlyFans Wants to Buy TikTok
Tim Stokely, founder of the adult content platform OnlyFans, has submitted an eleventh-hour proposal to buy TikTok’s US operations from ...
Inside Silicon Valley’s Invite-Only IRL Dating Scene
“Greetings, Lovers, Legends, and Gods of Desire!” read the Partiful invite for the pre-Valentine’s Day gathering. “Eros, the god of ...
The Anonymous YouTubers Street-Racing Through New York
The first time that MBox ever went speeding around Times Square in New York City, he didn’t know it was ...
10 Years After ‘Stucky,’ “Captain America: Brave New World” Signals a Big Shift in Marvel Fandom
But she notes that even as Sam ostensibly had a more central role in the franchise in recent years, it ...
The Twitch Streamer Using Face Recognition to Make Video Games More Accessible
Squirelo’s passion for accessibility is twofold. He grew up around friends and family members living with disabilities and also had ...
In 2024, Fandom Conquered the World
On September 28, Bowen Yang performed one of 2024’s most resonant pieces of political theater while dressed as a pygmy ...
The Internet’s Obsession With Luigi Mangione Signals a Major Shift
In the US, people have strong opinions about health insurance companies, and when it came out that the alleged shooter ...
