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Darren Watkins Jr., far better known as IShowSpeed, has attained a kind of fame that’s hard to wrap your head around. The 20-year-old streamer, named Rolling Stone‘s most influential creator of 2025, doesn’t just have 135 million followers online. He also gets mobbed and chased by fans wherever he goes, …

Toward the end of March, Rachel Ganz had what she calls “a premonition of doom.” At the time, she couldn’t quite explain this foreboding. She and her husband, Jon Ganz, ages 45 and 49, respectively, were in the midst of what should have been a happy milestone: The couple were …

Why now? Amanda Knox is well aware that’s a question people might have when they watch an episode of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. It’s been 18 years since Knox returned home to her Perugia, Italy apartment to find her roommate Meredith Kercher brutally stabbed to death. Eighteen years …

Even if you don’t recognize Ed Gein’s name, you’re probably familiar with aspects of his story. After all, his crimes were the inspiration for some of the most iconic horror movie characters of all time, like Norman Bates from Psycho, Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill from The …

Tales of alcohol- and drug-fueled-debauchery are as common in music as playing guitar, whether it be onstage antics (Jim Morrison, Ozzy), the trashing of a hotel room (Rolling Stones, Rick James, Sid Vicious, countless others), or a “lost weekend” in the case of John Lennon. Many of these real-life experiences …

Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan know what first draws people into their podcast: shock value. Before the two Oklahoma mothers were hosts of the hit series I’ve Had It, they were stars on the short lived Bravo reality television series Sweet Home Oklahoma and Sweet Home — which followed …

That was the day the floodgates opened: the October morning in 2022 that I couldn’t hold it down anymore. I’d been up all night sweating my academic future, sweating the New York Yankees’ future; trying to sweat anything but my algebra exam, which was scheduled for second period the next …

When Mona, a mother in her thirties who lives in New Jersey, was pregnant, she had a fever which she treated with Tylenol. Six years later, her daughter was diagnosed with autism. According to President Trump, these two events just might be directly related. In a White House press conference …

You don’t often find a true crime journalist who lives on the other side of the bars, but, then, John J. Lennon isn’t your typical crime writer. Which is why Michael Shane Hale — Shane, for short — trusted him with his story for Lennon’s debut book, The Tragedy of …

It’s a great time to be into fanfiction. The space is currently in the throes of a digital gold rush for content seekers and creators. There’s something for everyone, about practically anything. But fanfiction, long a force in the corners of the internet that managed to escape the commercial monotony …