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Internet swoons over gay "cutest couple"
For the first time in Carmel High School's history, its "Cutest Couple" Yearbook award has gone to two gay teens. Dylan Meehan and Brad Taylor are the pair who won this year's award. But it's not just...
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What you should know about EXO: The biggest, strangest band in K-pop
Have you ever looked at One Direction and thought, “You know, they’re okay, but they’d be really great if they just had seven more members and a wolf concept?” No? Well, tough, because EXO happened...
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The "Teen Wolf" premiere, narrated by "Teen Wolf" fandom
Last night was a big night for Teen Wolf fandom: The long-anticipated third season finally arrived. Naturally, on Tumblr, there was a high volume of intense fan reactions. But we decided to take a...
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Twitter trolls turn anime convention into "paranoid nightmare"
A-Kon is America's oldest annual anime convention. But when it convened for the 24th time in Dallas over the weekend, it had new problems to contend with, as its cosplayers ran headlong into a trolling...
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Ain't no cure for the summertime feels
Picture, for a moment, Tumblr as it might have existed in the late '50s. Charlie Parker, pausing before he picks up his sax to snap a picture of the audience from the stage: "I'd like to dedicate this...
View ArticleRacist chants at soccer player spur even worse Twitter backlash
For a while now, Soccer, racism, and Twitter have been a Venn diagram of cultural fail that has plagued the sport on an ongoing basis. While it's not as if the problem hasn't received a great deal of...
View Article"Little Horribles" is more than just a lesbian "Girls"
"This is the best webseries I've ever seen, and I've only seen five minutes of it," was YouTube user TheBermuda's response to the newly launched Little Horribles, a comedy about queer women and dating...
View ArticleHigh school cheerleader pimps out teammate online
Backpage is a Craigslist-style open listing website with a well-trafficked Adult section. Anyone can post there if they claim to be an adult—including Minnesota high school cheerleader Montia Parker,...
View ArticleBritish government plans major crackdown on extremist websites
In the wake of a horrific extremist attack on a U.K. soldier in London last month, the British government may be cracking down on websites that promote extremist or radical Muslim and terrorist...
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Complaining about tl;dr is just too tl;dr
Is Arrested Development really worth taking the time to analyze? One reviewer thinks so—but he's pissed that you aren't doing it right. In the Internet age of 140 characters, brevity has not only...
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5 reasons Tim Duncan is fandom's MVP
NBA superstar Tim Duncan is a clean-cut mystery. Sports Illustratedonce called him"a paragon of anti-charisma." When he's not leading the Spurs to the NBA finals, the mild-mannered basketball legend...
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How to play Tumblr's John Green game
Last year, famed YouTuber and Vlogbrother Hank Green co-wrote a viral hit called Tumblr: the Musical. In it, he tried to sum up Tumblr culture by including a list of the things that made it great:...
View ArticleSFWA sexism rocks the science-fiction blogosphere
The editor of the bulletin for the Science Fiction Writers of Americahas resigned this week in the middle of an Internet backlash against the most recent issue of the magazine. But Jean Rabe's...
View ArticleWarner Bros. smacks pirates with $20 fines for every stolen movie
When mediacom giants AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon enacted the "Six Strikes" Copyright Alert System in February, not every Internet service provider (ISP) played along....
View ArticleCampaign raises thousands to "reward" Ed Snowden for NSA leak
As Edward Snowden faces possible extradition from Hong Kong, U.S. citizens grateful for what may be the biggest whistleblowing of American security policy in history are starting to mobilize their...
View ArticlePillow Talk: Cosplayers furious over photographer's merchandising
Cosplayers and fans are outraged over a convention vendor who's taking "creepshots" to a whole new level of disturbing. Eric Pearce, according to his own website (down as of this morning), has been...
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10 favorites from the "Teen Wolf" fanart contest on deviantART
Teen Wolf's long-awaited third season has only just gotten under way, but the fans have been anticipating it for months. At deviantART, the season's promo mantra, "This Might Hurt," prompted a...
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Where Anita Sarkeesian goes, sexism follows—even to E3
E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is one of the biggest annual conferences in the gaming industry. Like any geek gathering, this year's conference, happening this week in Los Angeles, has its...
View Article20,000 people convinced Facebook to officially embrace mastectomy photos
Following a sustained public discussion about Facebook's double standards regarding its content policy and violence against women, the company landed in another pile of dog doo for censoring breast...
View ArticleSo unfollow we all: Katee Sackhoff alienates fans over gun debate
Kara Thrace, the badass, no-bullshit fighter pilot code-named Starbuck on the revamped Battlestar Galactica, was a character who knew not to bring a knife to a gunfight. But some fans weren't prepared...
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