What is DirtyRoulette? Exactly what it sounds like.

In a post-Omegle world, there are many one-on-one cam sites to consider. Thundr, OmeTV, Uhmegle — but none of these scratch the itch that a lot of users went to Omegle for: online sex. While most of these sites do have a large community of people utilizing them to bust a nut on the internet,…

X custom timelines: What users are saying about the new feature

Social media app X rolled out a new custom timeline feature earlier this week, and so far, user reactions have been positive. The new feature is reminiscent of TweetDeck, the popular feature that recently rebranded as X Pro. Using the new custom timelines feature, X users will be able to create custom feeds for specific…

Why Instagram was turning some users photos black and white

Have your Instagram posts been turning black and white without your consent? You’re not alone. According to Engadget, some users on Facebook and presumably elsewhere (though I wasn’t able to find a lot of complaints on X) have complained that photos uploaded to the Instagram app in color were being automatically and unintentionally turned black…

Bluesky breaks silence on outage and reveals cause

Bluesky, the social media app popular with X expatriates, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday, April 16. And in a thread posted on the official Bluesky profile, the app’s leaders revealed the cause of the outage — a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on…

Is Bluesky down? Heres what we know.

Bluesky appears to be down, with users reporting issues with the social media platform on Thursday. Often seen as the alternative to Elon Musk’s X, Bluesky was not working as usual in the early hours, with Downdetector identifying a thousand-strong spike in reported issues with the app and site around 6:30 a.m. ET. (Disclosure: DownDetector…

Lena Dunhams memoir reopens the Jack Antonoff–Lorde case

I can’t quite figure out what year we are living in. Let me more clear. I can’t pin down what year the chronically online are living in. We are in an unprecedented time of tech advancement, what with artificial intelligence taking over our lives and astronauts literally going back to the moon. But everywhere I…

Survey: This is the most distracting app for teens

For U.S. teens who use TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat, one of the apps stands out as more of a distraction than the others, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. More than a quarter of teens shared that they spend too much time on TikTok, while more than a third said the app…

Justin Biebers Coachella set was deeply online in the best way

Justin Bieber did not spend his Coachella headlining set pretending the past was behind him. Instead, he opened a laptop, pulled up YouTube, and sang directly to it. Midway through his 90-minute set on Saturday, the Day Two headliner began streaming old clips of himself performing snippets of songs like “Baby,” “Favorite Girl,” “Never Say…

Milk, tears, and Digimon: BTS Hot Ones episode was pure chaos

Some things can feel so specific, so perfectly engineered in a lab to appeal directly to me. Today, that thing is the members of BTS singing “Butter-Fly” by Kōji Wada, the iconic opening theme to Digimon Adventure, during an appearance on Hot Ones. The members approached the hot wings challenge with wildly different strategies. V…

Remi Cruz Parsons says longevity online comes down to one thing

Remi Cruz Parsons has spent more than a decade inviting viewers into her life. What began with room makeovers and lifestyle vlogs has evolved into a deeply loyal audience of millions that has followed her through every era, from YouTube uploads filmed in her parents’ house to podcasts, live tours, and now, her first cookbook.…