internet culture

Is the Internet a Young Person’s Game or Do You Know Who Sombr and ROLE MODEL Are?

JR Atkinson

‘Free Sample’ TikTok is Making the Social Media Platform One Big Advertisement

Lana DeGaetano

There Are Too Many ‘Man-On-the-Street’ Interviewers On Social Media and They’re Only Getting Worse

JR Atkinson

‘You’re so funny!’: How did the TikTok trend reliant on deep-seated trauma turn much-needed mental health conversations into a competition?

Lana DeGaetano

How Jemima Kirke From ‘Girls’ Became the Face of Internet Nihilism Through a Meme

Lana DeGaetano

‘Your TikTok auntie’: How older women are keeping the Gen Z app from completely crumbling to consumerism

Ally Perry

From Punching Cameras to Swinging Umbrellas: Why you should support celebrities defending their personal privacy

Lana DeGaetano

'I don't want to stoop to their level': How the social hierarchy of X allowed a menswear expert and a scholar to create a new kind of Twitter celebrity

Ally Perry

‘He's running for Gen Z president': Timothée Chalamet’s expert understanding of the internet has cemented him as Gen Z’s quintessential movie star

JR Atkinson

"Mukbang" YouTuber Nikocado Avocado, the king of method Youtubing: 'Four months ago, fans, haters, and the blissfully ignorant were gifted the conclusion to a narrative arc nearly a decade in the making...'

Ally Perry

Sticking Out Our Gyatt For the Rizzler: Are We Really Slang Fatigued?

Ally Perry

Finding Community In Meaninglessness: How the mystery of 'Celebrity Number Six' captured the minds of the internet

JR Atkinson

Demure VS BRAT: How the trend uplifted modesty and denounced its predecessor of the messy party girl aka BRAT

Lana DeGaetano