When Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered on Nickelodeon in 2005, no one could have predicted that nearly two decades later, one of its characters would still be one of the internet’s favorite fictional boyfriends. Yet here we are. Since Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender arrived on Paramount+ and in select theaters, my TikTok algorithm has…
Women receive no shortage of safety advice. Cover your drink. Share your location. Avoid walking at night alone. Text when you get home. Here is one they may not hear every day: If you think someone wearing smart glasses is secretly recording you, start playing a Disney song. The advice has begun circulating on LinkedIn,…
Elon Musk has just taken one more step towards turning X into “the everything app.” On Monday, Musk’s social media platform X announced the launch of a new service on the platform called X Money. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. What is X Money? The new service…
At this point, anyone who leaves the house risks ending up in the background of someone else’s video. Phones have made filming strangers routine, while Meta glasses have made some cameras nearly impossible to spot. Once that footage reaches TikTok, a brief encounter can land in front of millions of viewers — and the people…
Right now, most publishers block AI bots. According to Vince Nero’s excellent research, 79% of top news sites block AI training bots via robots.txt. Only 18% block no AI crawlers at all. Not a perfect science, as the robots.txt is so easily circumvented, but still. No one is playing nice anymore. Multiple publisher x AI…
If you run ecommerce campaigns on target CPA or target ROAS and any of them sit at “Limited by budget,” Google’s August 17 bidding change is going to move your numbers, and we’re likely not talking about the direction you want. Starting August 17, campaigns that are limited by budget and use a target-based bid…
Jimothy has crossed Seattle streets and climbed neighborhood staircases, and now he’s wandered into the gaming world. The unusually shaped raccoon became an internet celebrity after Seattle resident Kiana Hall spotted him in the city’s Ballard neighborhood on July 13, 2026. Since then, his compact torso, rounded back, and long legs have inspired memes, murals,…
A member of the Ferrell family is going viral, although this time, comedy has very little to do with it. Magnus Ferrell, the 22-year-old musician and oldest son of Will Ferrell, is reaching a wave of new listeners (and arguably becoming social media’s summer boyfriend) through “Asleep Talking,” his bedroom-pop single about being unable to…
Seattle may need to prepare for the possibility of multiple Jimothys — Jimothies? Jimothem? Jimothi? The internet has not yet settled on the plural. The unusually shaped raccoon became an internet celebrity after footage of him walking through the city’s Ballard neighborhood went viral. But as residents continue sharing possible sightings — including some they…
Alphabet’s second quarter earnings results show that Google is earning massive amounts of money but is also spending so much that it reported a negative free cash flow due to infrastructure spending. Massive Earnings Q2 2026 revenue is $119.8 billion, which is up 24% year over year. Where The Money Comes From The earnings release…