If your For You page has recently started whispering about a creek, don’t worry: You have not accidentally wandered onto FishingTok. “Quiet on the creek” is the latest TikTok catchphrase to escape the app. People are whispering it, dancing to it, and dropping it into comment sections whenever someone reveals a little too much information.…
True-crime fandom no longer wants to watch from the sidelines; it increasingly wants in on the case. Consider the recent lineup: TikTok helped pull the Menendez brothers back into the national conversation decades after their convictions. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial became daily social media programming. Luigi Mangione developed an intense internet fandom…
On Aug. 4, a Nike customization trailer pulled up outside Gamma Phi Beta at the University of Alabama. Inside were sneakers, fleeces, and other gear that members could personalize with sorority details. Outside, three videographers waited to capture the results. The event brought 150 women through the trailer, according to Campus Launch, the sorority-marketing agency…
Instagram has a new logo. Well, sort of. The familiar gradient camera icon on your phone isn’t going anywhere. Instead, Instagram has redesigned the handwritten wordmark that appears at the top of the app, giving it its first update in a decade. View this post on Instagram “The wordmark at the top of the app…
Instagram has a new logo. Well, sort of. The familiar gradient camera icon on your phone isn’t going anywhere. Instead, Instagram has redesigned the handwritten wordmark that appears at the top of the app, giving it its first update in a decade. View this post on Instagram “The wordmark at the top of the app…
For the first time in 27 years, the people of mainland Europe were able to watch the moon pass perfectly in front of the sun and blot out its earthbound rays. That means members of Gen Alpha, and many young Gen Z space enthusiasts, just experienced their very first total solar eclipse. SEE ALSO: Made…
Since Elon Musk‘s takeover of the former Twitter, now known as X, there have been plenty of criticism leveled against the platform and the changes Musk instituted. Regardless of one’s political background or general feelings on Musk, one of the main unanimous complaints has been the overall diminishing quality of content of the social media…
When I was growing up, there were few words more devastating than “poser.” I still remember getting called one during my freshman year of high school after showing up in a pair of DC skate shoes. It didn’t matter that I genuinely liked them. Someone decided I hadn’t “earned” them, that I was trying on…
X (formerly Twitter) seems to be dominated by videos when you open the app or access the site — and if the news of the day happens to be something violent or disturbing, it can be easy to stumble across content that you don’t want to see automatically playing. The safest way to avoid disturbing…
Every fandom has its lore. ENHYPEN has an entire universe. What began as the vampire imagery woven through the K-pop group’s 2020 debut has evolved into DARK MOON, a supernatural franchise spanning Webtoon, anime, music, and its own devoted online fandom. But ENHYPEN’s commitment to storytelling doesn’t stop there. As the group prepares to release…