Imagine with me: Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook without any metrics. You log onto the app, and see the same pictures from your friends and the latest food videos from creators like Emily Mariko — but there’s no number of likes, no number of views, and no number of comments. You don’t know how many followers…
Addison Rae’s rise to fame through TikTok is well-known. The 21-year-old creator has 85 million followers on the app, earning her the spot of third most-followed (after @charlidamelio and @khaby.lame). She’s signed a multi-film deal with Netflix, launched a music career, and befriended the original influencer clan, the Kardashian family. But yesterday, the TikTok star…
A poll published Thursday by Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation finds that Democrats and Republicans generally agree on social media being a double-edged sword, but disagree on what issue is most harmful. Gallup surveyed 9,000 adults in the U.S. over a 3-week period from July 30 to August 11, 2021.…
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The Wall Street Journal. TechCrunch. Vice. These are just a handful of the media outlets who reached out to me earlier this year for comment in their stories. However, they weren’t actually looking for me. No. They were trying to contact the online newsletter platform Substack, a company I do not work for. These outlets…
Reddit wants your help in predicting the future. The discussion platform announced Wednesday that it’s rolling out Prediction Tournaments to all Reddit communities with 10,000 or more members. Similar to a prediction market, which lets players bet real money or cryptocurrency on real-world outcomes, Reddit’s Predictions allows users to stake tokens on certain results in…
If you’re reading this, green flag! The internet has been obsessed with red flags for quite sometime now, and in the past day or so this obsession has turned into a popular Twitter meme. The meme is simple: Whatever someone thinks is a red flag, followed by a series of red flag emoji. According to…
Posted a joke that wasn’t funny? Retweeted someone else’s joke, but didn’t notice the unsavory source? We’re not here to judge. We’re just here to make it all go away. (FYI: In case you got here because you were hoping to delete someone else’s tweet from your timeline, that’s not possible, sorry. But there are…
For an app primarily used by by young people, TikTok is oddly obsessed with nostalgia. Whether its obsession with childhood memories or Y2K fashion, the app is overrun with yearning for the past. The hashtag #nostalgia has 18.9 billion views. Accounts like @nostalgia__hub, @thr0wback5, and @daily.dose.0f.nostalgia are dedicated to making videos that aim to make…
“I have been hacked and my Twitter account has been erased,” begins a tweet sent from the verified @RepMaxineWatters Twitter account on Oct.12, 2021 at 11:55am ET. “I know who has done this,” the post continues as it takes a sudden turn and gets all Liam Neeson-esque from the Taken series of films. “I will…