3-year-old breaks up with her dad over 'My Little Pony'
YouTube user TheIncredibleAdelaRu adores his family, if the few videos on his channel are any indication, but when he denied his daughter a My Little Pony toy, he quickly found out the unconditional...
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Miss America gave the Internet a crash course in history, geography, and race
If you’ve been on Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr or BuzzFeed this morning, you’ve learned two things: America’s new beauty queen, New York’s Nina Davuluri, is Indian. And not everyone is happy about...
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A field guide to Lolita, the beautiful fashion craze that rules convention...
On the fashionable streets of Japan, women and girls of all ages dress in mid-list couture dresses adorned with frills, lace, and intricately patterned fabric. The baby-doll dresses end in a sea of...
View ArticleFandom, consent, and Tumblr's Josh Macedo scandal
What do you do when a man you look up to, a man whose outspoken feminism and respect for women had enraptured an entire community of fangirls, sends you pictures of his dick? What do you do when you...
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Viral campaign poses as Playboy to promote consent and good sex
Things Hugh Hefner didn't do today: 1) Make a donation to the National Organization for Women2) Tell rapists to "stop ruining sex for the rest of us" 3) Decide to take a bold stand against rape...
View ArticleProsecutors' social media missteps lead to retrial in New Orleans bridge...
In 2011, several New Orleans attorneys might have won their petty arguments on social media. But in the long run, they lost an entire city’s 8-year-long battle against police corruption, and justice...
View ArticleIs ABC taking 'Once Upon a Time' fandom for granted?
The Once Upon a Time fandom is having a rough time of it—and season three of the show hasn’t even started yet. Sure, the series’ Facebook page recently reached 3 million followers, but the ABC...
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Surfer doesn't see great white shark lurking below him, but Reddit does
Looks like someone’s going to need a bigger surfboard. According to Reddit, where an initially unassuming Imgur photo has gotten over 800,000 views in under 18 hours, an unknown man attached a camera...
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#MensRightsMovies are coming soon to a friendzone near you
Late Monday night, Aaminah Khan was deep in the middle of a Twitter rant against white privilege. A self-described “muslim bipolar bisexual beautiful intersectionalist geek femme genius,” Khan had...
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Netflix now has more subscribers than HBO
The child has become the master. The student has surpassed the teacher. Netflix now has more subscribers than HBO, its own model for how to woo viewers to an alternate television experience. Bloomberg...
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10 shades of Jamie Dornan, your new Christian Grey
Word on the street is that even before Pacific Rim’s Charlie Hunnam officially dropped out of the much-hyped film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, the producers had approached Once Upon a Time star...
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WB executive deletes Twitter account after angering 'Supernatural' fans
Life is often a rollercoaster of drama for fans of Supernatural, the CW’s popular, cliffhanger-heavy flagship series about two brothers and an angel fighting to protect the world against demons. But...
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Tumblr launches smarter search function with multiple tags, content filters
Tumblrunveiled a long-awaited comprehensive new search function today, complete with a new grid layout, safe-search filtering, and the much-coveted ability to search multiple tags at once.And there was...
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'Divergent' fandom struggles with their trilogy's end
Veronica Roth is a writer who knows how to take chances. At one point during Divergent, the first novel of her popular dystopian young adult series, a group of characters climb to the roof of what was...
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Is this unofficial Harry Potter fan store too authentic for its own good?
If you’ve ever been to a Harry Potter convention, then you’ve likely seen it: a Hogwarts initiate’s paradise, full of broomsticks, wands, robes, and all sorts of magical delights. You’ve just entered...
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Fifth-grader pleads guilty for role in Anonymous attack
Parents who worry their kids are accessing porn on the Internet may have a new concern on their hands: whether their little hackers have joined Anonymous. That’s what one father had to contend with...
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You can follow 'Back to the Future' right now on Twitter
How many Twitter accounts does it take to get back to 1985 before lightning strikes the clock tower? Forty-nine, according to the Hill Valley Project, a fantastic Twitter performance happening right...
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Botched raid shows difficulty of policing 3-D-printed weapons
How do you enforce gun control when you can potentially print 3-D weapons at home? That’s the issue facing authorities since Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed released specs for a 3-D-printed gun...
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Here's your chance to have lunch with John Cho and George Takei
How much would you pay to have lunch with two Sulus at once? Star Trek reboot actor John Cho is banking you’d pay at least $25 for the opportunity to have lunch with him and original Sulu, the...
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10 reasons to love 'Sleepy Hollow,' even if you don't watch the show
We’ve already told you why fandom can’t get enough of Sleepy Hollow, the hit “Headless Horseman” update that was the first new fall show to get a second-season renewal. But even if you’re not watching...
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