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IShowSpeed has officially arrived in Hong Kong (or as the internet is now referring to it, 'IShowSpeed HK mode activated'), and anarchy, of course, ensued.
When Spike Lee announces a new film, it’s usually met with a flood of cinephiles adjusting their glasses and whispering.
OpenAI released a new ChatGPT model capable of turning any picture into a specific art style. Since then, our X (fka Twitter) timelines have been flooded with hundreds of posts of people ...
From TikTok influencers at the budget to fake community Facebook groups and middle-aged politicians recording up-the-nose ...
Even if you haven’t watched Season 3 of HBO’s The White Lotus, you’ve almost certainly seen the memes. The only thing ...
During the pandemic, Chalkbeat published dozens of essays that spoke to the tumult of COVID-era teaching. Lindsay Klemas wrote about teaching on Zoom while caring for a toddler. Canwen Xu recounted ...
We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is ...
Google is building a brand-new AI-powered meme generator for Gboard, but it doesn't seem to understand what memes are.
Their findings, published in Nature Human Behavior, show that general anesthesia suppresses each brain's unique functional connectivity patterns (i.e., the connections and communication patterns ...
Brain rot—or brainrot—is a Gen Z slang term that means “chronically online,” and brainrot memes are so nonsensical they’re capable of “brain rotting.” With enough participation ...
Our online era is being defined by a digital haze of shitpost-y, weirdly specific memes that toe the line between satire and ...