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Bunny pretty, visual weight Tiktok glow-up culture

We have entered the age of TikTok face

From ‘are you cat pretty, bunny pretty, deer pretty or fox pretty?’ to ‘are you boy pretty or girl pretty?’, viral beauty trends offer us the illusion of variety and choice while encouraging algorithmic sameness

Beauty

Jan 22, 2024

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Art & Photography

LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution

Inside the world of 90s gamers and LAN Party culture

merritt k’s new photo book captures the DIY spirit of multiplayer gaming’s glory days and evokes peak Y2K nostalgia

Art & Photography

Jan 18, 2024

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture

Inside the online communities trying to preserve our digital memories

Ruby Justice Thelot’s A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints pays homage to the personal stories shared in the comments section of YouTube videos

Life & Culture

Jan 08, 2024

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture

What is the Mandela Effect? The strange truth behind the online conspiracy

Has the Large Hadron Collider unleashed a portal into an infinite number of parallel realities? Is there a vast conspiracy to trick us into thinking that the Monopoly man once wore a monocle? We investigated TikTok's latest obsession...

Life & Culture

Jan 03, 2024

James Greig

Life & Culture

Rage against the machine: how incel culture went mainstream in 2023

From the canthal tilt filter to mewing and mogging, looksmaxxing has gone viral on social platforms as young people adopt increasingly black-pilled ways to enhance their physical gains

Life & Culture

Dec 29, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Film & TV

The strange mystery behind this lost X-Files song

For three decades, fans of the show have been trying to locate the unknown track – and now they’ve finally discovered the truth

Film & TV

Dec 12, 2023

Life & Culture

karen stanley sophie anderson cock destroyer model

Sophie Anderson will always be more than a meme

In the wake of her death, Alim Kheraj writes a tribute to the Cock Destroyers and the late, great Sophie Anderson

Life & Culture

Dec 05, 2023

Alim Kheraj

Life & Culture

Henry Kissinger: the funniest memes about his tragic death

At a sad time like this, laughter really is the best medicine

Life & Culture

Nov 30, 2023

James Greig

Art & Photography

Kawaii Agency is the collective making ‘cute, cringe’ art for its flop era

The London-based art project is spotlighting a new wave of ‘yassified Gen Z’ aesthetics

Art & Photography

Nov 16, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture

The death of BeReal

The number of daily users on BeReal has plummeted since its peak in September 2022 – but how did things go so wrong for the ‘anti-Instagram’ app?

Life & Culture

Oct 23, 2023

Amelia Stout

Life & Culture

Is the golden age of posting over?

Social media algorithms and top-down trend cycles have ruined memes as we know it, but perhaps we’re approaching a new posting epoch

Life & Culture

Sep 29, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture

Sydney Sweeney and Brittany O'Grady in The White Lotus

In defence of bitching about your friends

In light of a series of TikTok controversies, we ask: is it ever OK to trash-talk a friend?

Life & Culture

Sep 22, 2023

James Greig

Life & Culture

Tiktok star Lewis Saunderson is here to raise awareness

We sat down with the controversial TikTok star who is, without a doubt, the most intense actor at work in Britain today

Life & Culture

Aug 30, 2023

James Greig

Life & Culture

Taylor Lorenz is still Extremely Online

Ahead of the release of her debut book, the Washington Post reporter speaks to Günseli Yalcinkaya about doxxing, hyper-niche internet trends and the future of social media

Life & Culture

Aug 15, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture