The meme stock craze that started on Reddit and took the financial world by storm in 2021 may have died down, but clearly there are people who still think the social sharing platform is going “to the moon.” And they want back on that rocketship. Jaime Rogozinski, the creator of the popular Reddit community, WallStreetBets,…
Content warning: This piece discusses sexual assault. In 2016, I scoured the internet for stripper advice after getting sexually assaulted in the champagne room, a curtained-off area where customers can spend private time with strippers. I had just moved to New York and I didn’t know a single dancer in the city. Upset, confused, and…
A literal meme stock may soon be on the way. Reddit, the popular social sharing platform, has plans to go public later this year, according to a report in The Information. Back in late 2021, Reddit first started making moves to file for an IPO at a $15 billion valuation. However, many factors — among…
On Super Bowl Sunday, in the first quarter of the game, Elon Musk tweeted out his support of the Philadelphia Eagles. “Go @Eagles!!!” Musk tweeted, surrounding his words with American flag emoji. Sometime after the Kansas City Chiefs emerged victorious, Musk’s tweet was suddenly deleted. The next day, as Mashable previously reported, Twitter users suddenly…
What do Cardi B, Tesla, former Trump White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and MSNBC host Ali Velshi all have in common? They’re all former subscribers to Twitter Blue, Twitter’s paid subscription plan, recently revamped by owner and CEO Elon Musk, which offers blue checkmarks to anyone who pays $8 per month (or $11 per…
Did Elon Musk watch the same hearing that everyone else did? Late Wednesday night, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk tweeted “The Woke Stasi felt the heat today.” Musk’s followers knew what he was talking about, replying with a photo of former Twitter executives, whom Musk fired when he took over the company last year, standing…
If you’ve been on Twitter over the past week or so, you’ve likely seen extremely viral tweets that include random links to Twitter Spaces, the platform’s audio chat room feature. If you’ve clicked on any of those Twitter Spaces links, you’ll likely find a nonsensical Twitter Spaces chat scheduled for some time in the future…
TikTok is toying with a new feature that will let you reset your For You page if it starts getting dull. When you make an account on TikTok for the very first time, your For You page isn’t really For You because it doesn’t know you yet. So, the algorithm serves you a wide variety…
More big changes are afoot at Elon Musk’s Twitter. On Friday, Musk announced via his Twitter account that the company would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on the platform as of today. He said creators will get paid for the ads that show up in the replies to their tweets. In a follow-up…
Say goodbye to some of your favorite Twitter apps, automated accounts, tools, and services. Twitter will now force everyone who makes the creative things that make the platform fun and enjoyable to pay up or go away. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) In the wee hours of the morning on…