Companies do a lot to get attention on social media — from cringe-y brand Twitter accounts posting about Taylor Swift to incessant Instagram stories. But after Facebook’s own research showed that Instagram is bad for the health of young people, Lush decided to quit social media all together. The cosmetics company shut down its Facebook,…

Another year, another season of gratitude. But TikTok celebrates Thanksgiving in its own unique way. This week, our FYPs were full of Friendsgiving get-togethers and TikTokkers home for the holidays. Thankfully, the tradition of recreating Saturday Night Live‘s “Back Home Ballers” carries on, even for a new generation. Back in the day me and you…

Alright, we get it. You’re an Instagram Nostradamus. You know exactly what you want to post and when you’re gonna want to post it. Maybe there’s a meme or comment you want to make that you know will be totally relevant for a future moment or event. Or it could be that you’re an influencer…

One of Instagram’s latest features allows users to create public threads in Stories. With the Add Yours feature you can create a photo prompt and other users can post their own photo Stories that add to the thread. If you’re active on Instagram, you’ve probably seen countless “Add Yours” Stories. The feature has blown up…

Not everything in pro wrestling is predetermined or scripted. Case in point: A pro wrestling fan attacked a WWE Superstar on live television on Monday after it looks like he fell for an internet scam. But it wasn’t the wrestler who scammed the fan. It was evidently an imposter, pretending to be the WWE Superstar.…

I was 10 when the final season of One Tree Hill aired in 2012, not that I would have known. Back then, I was too busy watching Nickelodeon’s Victorious and reruns of That’s So Raven and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Now, I’m 20, and in between my busy university course load, I’ve spent the past…

“If you’re seeing this then it’s meant for you” is a typical caption on TarotTok, a corner of the internet that has manifested more than 14.7 billion views on the app. Many of the videos found on this side of TikTok emphasize the idea that this content — typically a reading — is meant to…

Snapchat’s solution for  making Snap Map more fun, useful, and ripe for partnership opportunities — without making it too cluttered — has finally gone live. First announced in May, Snapchat’s new “Layers” feature launches Wednesday. Layers are pretty much what they sound like: Enabling a layer superimposes all sorts of content or information about locations…

Say goodbye to “dislike mobs” on YouTube. YouTube has announced that it’s making dislike counts private on all videos across YouTube. The thumbs down button isn’t going away. Users can still click thumbs down to dislike a video in order to inform the YouTube recommendation algorithm about content they didn’t like. However, when a user…

Facebook’s algorithm sucks, and Congress wants to do something about it. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward what it’s titled the “Filter Bubble Transparency Act.” Axios got a copy of the proposed legislation, which would require companies like Meta (yes, Facebook) to, simply put, provide users with an option to opt out of…