Creed is having a moment. Actually, if we’re being precise, it’s having innumerable moments, over and over again, all across the internet. On Instagram, the band has been repurposed as a comedic device for dunking on President Joe Biden; on TikTok, shitposters imagined what it would be like to explain …
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Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of Moo Deng. The baby pygmy hippo is barely two months old and already famous. So beloved on TikTok, Instagram, and X is Moo Deng that workers at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, the place in Thailand where she was born, are doing all they …
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The internet loves cute animals. (Shocking, I know.) But more than a fact of life, it’s practically a pillar supporting the weight of the online world’s entire infrastructure. Some of the earliest internet moments — Keyboard Cat, for instance — centered on critters. And that hasn’t changed, even as the …
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For every high-profile internet mystery that seems very grave—the Serial podcast listeners who dug deep on the case of Adnan Syed, the sleuths who tried to figure out what happened to the “Mostly Harmless” hiker—there are an equal number of online fascinations that are just fun. The search for the …
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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 …
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From the second the message popped up on X, it had a familiar ring. Jools Lebron, the TikTok creator who went viral just a few weeks ago for a post discussing “very demure, very mindful” work looks, was upset that, seemingly, someone had attempted to trademark her viral phrase. In …
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Oasis, one of the biggest bands ever, broke up for 15 years because of a longtime feud between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher. They couldn’t get along, and their fans suffered for it. But now Oasis is coming back — barring some massive blow-up between Liam and Noel — and …
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Before some of them were taken down, the memes about Australian Olympic breaker Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, were all about poking fun. Videos of her flipping around or kangaroo hopping on the competition floor at the Paris Summer Games were accompanied by captions like “what my nephew does after telling …
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On Tuesday, when Vice President Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz to be her running mate in her bid for US president, she commemorated it by sharing a video of her calling the Minnesota governor and asking him if he’d like to join her campaign. In the clip, he appears in …
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On July 13, as word spread that a would-be assassin had narrowly missed killing Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a trading frenzy began. Within an hour of the shooting, the price of TRUMP, a cryptocurrency inspired by the former president, had jumped up by more than a …
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