The baffling case of Karen Read
Editor’s note, June 18, 2025, 4:40 pm ET: On June 18, 2025, Karen Read was found not guilty of the ...
Tag: Internet Culture
“She’s not a girl’s girl.”
The cover for Sabrina Carpenter’s upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, isn’t going over well. Last week, the singer unveiled the ...
Why the Karen Read retrial might end differently this time
It’s the same courtroom, the same judge, and nearly all of the same players — but it’s a whole different ...
This podcast wants to be your new best friend
In a podcast landscape dominated by the manosphere, one of the biggest podcasts targeted to women sounds like it could ...
Minecraft’s massive, blocky success, explained
The biggest movie in the world right now sends its characters on a journey through a building-block world full of ...
How an influencer’s weight loss triggered an internet meltdown
By the time Remi Bader, who built her career as a plus-size influencer with over 2 million followers on TikTok, ...
Why it feels like 2007 again
In February, a group of men on a sports talk show casually spread a salacious and untrue rumor about the ...
How not to text, explained
It’s been a big week for the group chat. On Monday, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a story revealing ...
Is the viral “let them” theory really that simple?
Sometimes the best advice is the most straightforward. This assumption seems to summarize the appeal of TikTok’s favorite armchair psychologist ...
Does America’s biggest true crime podcast share true crime’s biggest problems?
By 2017, the true crime podcasting space might have already seemed crowded — but perhaps what it was missing was ...
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