Anita Sarkeesian Hates Talking About Gamergate—But She Has To
If you’d like to debate Anita Sarkeesian about whether or not male privilege exists, we’ll make this easy for you: she’s not interested. It’s been a decade…
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A Tweet Before Dying
i find it a good philosophical exercise to imagine the last tweet. It could come centuries hence, when a cryptobot offers a wistful adieu to another…
TikTok Turned Lil Yachty’s ‘Poland’ Into a National Anthem
Lil Yachty’s “Poland” is 83 seconds long, jarringly repetitive, and purposefully obtuse. And yet, in the hands of TikTok, it’s become a smash, cracking the…
Unverify Me, Daddy
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has been chaotic since its slapdash inception, so it’s only fitting that his first change will scramble the platform’s social…
Twitter Writes Twitter’s Requiem
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is complete. After riding into the company’s headquarters on a terrible “sink” pun earlier this week, the Tesla founder…
The Funny, Sad History of the Best Halloween Memes Ever
Halloween has remained fairly consistent for decades. Chocolates, cobwebs, carvings, and heated debates on the relative deliciousness of candy corn stand as…
TikTok’s ‘Board Parties’ May Have Reached Their Apex
One by one, 10 grinning people walk into a room, elbows bent and forearms outstretched as they curtsy slightly to show the camera what they’re carrying. The…
Dunkin’ Donuts Drama Is the Internet at Its Best
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.If you live on America’s…
I’m a Good Guy, Like and Subscribe
This kind of covenant remains particularly potent on YouTube, where—for better or worse—people seek out content that reinforces their worldview. “When we are…
The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job
Like Murphy, many overemployed individuals are achieving financial milestones that once seemed out of reach—from buying a home to building up sizable…