No one has been able to monetize a terrible German accent and a personality disorder as effectively as Anna Delvey. The fraudster, who in 2019 was convicted of posing as a German heiress and swindling members of the New York art scene, has parlayed her career as a felon into …
Read More »'Who TF Did I Marry' Gets the TV Treatment
“Who TF Did I Marry,” the viral 50-part TikTok series that captured the internet earlier this year, is finally returning to people’s screens. And this time, it’s as a television series. According to an exclusive reveal from Variety, actress Natasha Rothwell is developing a TV adaptation of the TikTok “Who …
Read More »14-Year-Old Boy Identified as Georgia School Shooting Suspect
The suspect in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, has been identified as Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student from the school. The news was confirmed by Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey during a news conference, CNN reports. Hosey said that two teachers and two …
Read More »Is Shanin Blake, the 'Alien Conspiracist E-Girl,' for Real?
“I’ve been chilling in the mountains of Peru/Drinking ayahuasca with the shamans too/Cup of San Pedro to shift the mood,” Shanin Blake croons over a smooth, R&B-inflected groove. She’s got a giant mass of platinum blonde dreads and she’s wearing a white crocheted bikini top, a wide-brimmed hat, and an …
Read More »PlayStation Kills Its Newest Shooter, 'Concord,' After 2 Weeks
Concord is officially dead. In an official statement released today on PlayStation’s blog, the company has announced that its recently released multiplayer shooter will be taken offline after just two weeks of service. The decision comes after a disastrous launch for the game, which launched August 23 on PlayStation 5 …
Read More »How Hard Is It to Take Off on TikTok?
I n the beginning, there was nothing. And influencers said, “Let there be light.” Ring lights, that is. For the past five years, I’ve reported on social media’s watershed moments and interviewed countless content creators at different stages of their careers. What I’ve never done, though, is try to become …
Read More »Being Funny Online Is Hard. These Creators Figured It Out
“We’re gonna be making content until the day we die!” It’s an observation that seems extreme, but coming from TikTok comedians Sabrina Brier and Kyle Gordon, it’s a peek into the hilarious and often nonsensical world of making comedy online. As the creator economy expands, influencers and creators have infiltrated …
Read More »Matthew Perry, Ketamine, and Me
The last time I did ketamine, inside San Diego’s Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute, my first hallucinatory stop found me right at home, surrounded by the cushy, lovable walls of what I’ve always called my crimson corduroy cathedral, but then, just like that, those walls gave up their support, tilted in on …
Read More »Maryland Supreme Court Upholds Adnan Syed's Murder Conviction
Maryland’s highest court ruled Friday to uphold the murder conviction against Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the groundbreaking true-crime podcastSerial, agreeing with an appellate court’s previous decision to reinstate Syed’s conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee. In September 2022, a Baltimore judge ordered the …
Read More »Telegram CEO's Prosecution Won't Bring Wider Social Media Crackdown
The charges of criminal complicity brought against billionaire Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France on Wednesday over allegedly enabling child exploitation and drug trafficking on the messaging app have raised alarm about crackdowns on other social media platforms. But how many tech companies and execs are really at risk? Despite …
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