Adam McIntyre, a 22-year-old YouTuber and influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and followers, is no stranger to being the subject of snark. McIntyre has cemented his place in the influencer world as a commentator who makes videos about pop culture, celebrity controversies, and internet feuds. Some of his …
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Lootings. Fights. Things thrown at customer service workers. Arguments in grocery stores. The trial of a 17-year-old alleged stabber. High schoolers dancing to rap music at graduation. A Black, female Iron Man. To scroll on these kinds of videos online is to interact with different communities. But while the average …
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Guy Edward Bartkus, the 25-year-old man suspected of bombing a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California on Saturday in a suicide attack that injured four others, left behind what the FBI described as “anti-pro-life” writings full of “nihilistic ideations.” His apparent opposition to human procreation would seem to explain the …
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In 2020, Dan’s wife lost a pregnancy. When Dan, a 41-year-old from Minnesota, told his parents about the loss, his mother said that the Covid vaccine was responsible for the miscarriage (though multiple studies found that it did not increase risk). In the months leading up to that, she had …
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The most mysterious song on the internet, which thousands of devoted sleuths have been trying to identify since 2007, finally has a name. The New Wave track, originally recorded off the radio in Germany in the early Eighties, is believed to be called “Subways of Your Mind” by the band …
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YouTube personality and podcaster Tana Mongeau has made waves in the creator space with impromptu remarks about fellow social media star Cody Ko having sex with her during a period in which they collaborated on videos when she was 17 years old and he was 25. In a live recording …
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To hear it from Apple or Elon Musk, AI is our inevitable future, one that will radically reshape life as we know it whether we like it or not. In the calculus of Silicon Valley, what matters is getting there first and carving out the territory so that everyone will …
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After years of stumping listeners, the viral “lostwave” track “Everyone Knows That” has finally been fully identified — all because someone was watching Eighties porno. To back up a bit, “Everyone Knows That” has been one of the biggest musical mysteries since a low-quality, 17-second snippet was uploaded to the …
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“Caffeinated society is a battlefield where everyone loses,” reads the headline on one of the most recent posts on r/decaf, a subreddit for those who have recently weaned themselves off their daily coffee habit. In the post, the author, who goes by u/fuhgg_, outlines how quitting caffeine is “a hero’s …
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Got a few seconds? Then lend your ears — you might just have the answer to a question that has perplexed forensic audio obsessives for years. Before the days of apps like Shazam, trying to identify an unfamiliar song was a team effort. WatZatSong, a social network dating back to …
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