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The hacked-together index of Tumblr's lost porn
It's been five days since David Karp announced that Tumblr would retract the most draconian parts of their new "Adult Content" policy—but many Tumblr users still aren't convinced that the company...
View ArticleBET in legal battle with fan over her popular "The Game" Facebook page
When is a fan page not a fan page? When it's a Facebook page caught in a battle between its fan creator and a corporation desperate to turn it "official." That's the story behind BET's attempted...
View ArticleThe 10 best, weirdest short horror films on the Internet
This weekend, The Conjuring, the latest film from Saw director James Wan, drops into U.S. theatres. But it's not only fans of exorcisms, demons, and the real-life demonologists behind the film's story...
View ArticleWhat online dating looked like in 1880
Ever wondered what the equivalent to an online relationship was in the Victorian era? Romance by telegraph, of course. And while it's a popular myth that the age of the Internet has brought with it a...
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This two-headed turtle has more Facebook friends than you do
Ah, Internet culture, formed on the back of viral oddities, spectacle, and cute little animals. You might say it's two-headed turtles all the way down. At least that's what the Internet is hot for...
View Article"Breaking Bad" and Weird Al, together at last
What does Breaking Bad have in common with "Albuquerque," Weird Al Yankovich's epic, 11-minute homage to, uh, sauerkraut? Well, seen from a certain bird's-eye view, they're both epic tales of social...
View ArticleIt's One Directioners vs. GQ, and no one wins
This week, GQ magazine unveiled five special covers designed to tap into one of the world’s largest cultural phenomenons around: One Direction fandom. What they got instead was a backlash of epic...
View ArticleCreepy dudes forced this fatshion blogger into retirement
The question of sexual consent is huge for anyone involved in a real-life relationship. But for one blogger from Tumblr's "fatshion" community, the problems with being a plus-size blogger weren't just...
View Article"Pacific Rim" fans get their own virtual convention on Tumblr
On August 9, Tumblr is reblogging the apocalypse. Okay, not really. But Tumblr fans are gearing up for a celebration of summer sci-fi fandom favorite Pacific Rim, and what's one of a growing number of...
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Tumblr celeb stumbles into starring role in "Night Vale"
The titular small town in Welcome to Night Vale may seem stuck in the Twilight Zone, but thanks to Tumblr celebrity Josh Macedo—now a Night Vale fan and accidental cosplayer—one thing just got a...
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One Direction fans are right to be outraged by GQ
On Wednesday, teenage One Direction fans opened the newest issue of British GQ to find they’d been described, in no uncertain terms, as a collective of vaginal wetness. “A dark-pink oil slick that...
View ArticleSubbable and the future of YouTube
On the surface, the VlogBrothers' new subscription service may not look like the kind of thing that can change the face of YouTube. But Subbable represents a fundamentally different approach to the...
View ArticleThe 20 most bizarre theories on the Web's biggest mystery
Something is going to happen on Sept. 24—we’re just not sure what yet. That’s when Pronunciation Book’s eerie 77-day countdown finally ends. The once-quirky but banal YouTube channel has turned into a...
View ArticleNetflix now has even more ways to misunderstand you
If you've ever tried to share your Netflix account with anyone, you know that things can get a little hairy when you drill down into the personal recommendations. It's taken the company a while, but...
View ArticleAnita Sarkeesian still can't catch a break
Comments disabled? Check. Dozens of misogynist tropes? Check. Instant Internet maelstrom? You got it. Donning her now-familiar hoop earrings and pink-and-blue plaid shirt, accidental Internet feminist...
View ArticleKickstarting the IMDb of fan conventions
At first glance, you might think that an intricate database of the world's fan cons would be necessary to the Internet. Of course something like that already exists, right? But it doesn’t. And if...
View ArticleRaven-Symoné comes out on Twitter: "I can finally get married!"
If you're a child of the 2000s, then you know that while it came in for its fair share of laughs, the Disney Channel hit That's So Raven was actually a late-edition homage to '90's girl-power and...
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Are these women too pretty to be "real" engineers?
On Friday, a baffled hacker community got a firsthand lesson in just how bizarre sexism in the tech industry can be. LinkedIn and Toptal, a small developer networking platform, essentially played a...
View ArticleA silent feminist Twitter protest gets mixed support
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence." When Jane Austen wrote these words in her classic 1823 novel Northanger Abbey, she hardly anticipated that one day the politics, and the silence, would...
View ArticleToday's "Doctor Who" announcement is the political event of the year
Forget U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's recent attempts to ban Internet porn. Forget the recent revelations that the number of British workers on unpaid contracts is higher than anyone thought....
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