Tag Archives: digital-culture

Charli XCX said it, so it must be true: Brat Summer is over. In a tweet so echoey it got several news hits, the club rat/pop girl said goodbye to the season that may come to define her career—and America’s political future. It was September 2, 87 days after Charli …

Earlier this week, after warping across the galaxy for 90 hours in a sentient spacecraft, Twitch streamer John Wissmiller realized that Concord was the best first-person shooter he’d played in a decade. “The gunplay was crunchy, the movement was smooth, and the progression felt rewarding,” he says. “I was even …

I come bearing exceptional news for reply guys. You can now leave comments on Instagram Stories. Previously, reply guys had just three options to display their devastating thirst on a Story post: like the Story with a heart, react with an emoji (🔥), or respond with a private DM. They’ve …

Haliey Welch, the internet star behind that viral “Hawk Tuah” video, is launching her own podcast. On Monday Welch took to social media to announce the (undeniably brilliantly named) Talk Tuah. Mashable Top Stories Stay connected with the hottest stories of the day and the latest entertainment news. Sign up …

National Novel Writing Month has long been known for its quirky, homegrown approach to creativity: Write a novel during the month of November! Just jot down 50,000 words while you’re knocking out holiday shopping and basting a turkey! But last Friday, the 25-year-old nonprofit, known as NaNoWriMo for short, shocked …

No matter how hard movies like Hackers, Blackhat, and Unfriended may work to convince you otherwise, there’s nothing especially cinematic about using the internet. As immersive and time-consuming as “being online” can be, when you zoom out, it’s mostly just people with bad posture hunched over computer terminals, clicking and …

Jazmin Jones knows what she did. “If you’re online, there’s this idea of trolling,” Jones, the director behind Seeking Mavis Beacon, said during a recent panel for her new documentary. “For this project, some things we’re taking incredibly seriously … and other things we’re trolling. We’re trolling this idea of …

Sniffing your Apple Watch at the end of the day, finding male strippers cringey, and thinking the best Deadpool and Wolverine moment was the cameo from Gambit are the “unpopular opinions” put to Blink Twice stars Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum in the BBC video above. Clearly two of those …

Oasis, the band everyone likes to sing after too many pints at karaoke, is going on tour. Well, not exactly on tour—it’s more like 17 dates in the UK and Ireland in summer 2025. Still, considering the band broke up in 2009 and has just reunited, this is what most …

David Beckham has had years of practice at keeping calm under pressure on the football field, but how does that translate to being in the Hot Ones hot seat? Apparently pretty well. In the clip above the sporting legend answers questions on everything from his favourite Spice Girls song to …