The parents of a Texas teenager who hanged himself are blaming a mysterious online game called the “Blue Whale Challenge,” which has been linked to suicides around the world with little evidence.
In just over a week, a YouTube video titled “Shark Attack - Cam Girl Bitten off Florida Coast,” featuring porn performer Molly Cavalli supposedly being bitten by a lemon shark has amassed almost 15 million views. And that was the plan all along, according to Bryce Rohrer, owner and operator of Florida Shark Diving,…
One of the mysteries of the internet is that people really enjoy reading and sharing “heartwarming” content about horribly sad things, a genre previously shorthanded as grief porn. The latest entry is a part-time Santa in Tennessee, who claimed to a local newspaper columnist that a very sick little boy recently died…
Gothamist is reporting that Zaida Pugh, who loosed crickets and worms on a car full of horrified subway riders in a stunt where she pretended to be mentally ill, has been criminally charged. Pugh also uploaded a Facebook Live video Tuesday morning where she apologized for the stunt and called herself “the most hated…
It takes a lot to rattle a New Yorker on the subway. There’s strange behavior, yes, but to truly shake our foundations, it’s going to take something bigger than a shoeless lady tossing back a Beck’s. It’s going to take a car full of crabs, or a dangling condom. This week’s Cricketpocalypse, though, was a horror…
By now, due to their fake leaked sex tape and the acidic rinse cycle of internet news that we all grit our teeth and capitulate to every day, it’s as likely that you have a certain band’s name—YACHT—in your head as it is unlikely that you could name anything else YACHT has done since catching the tail end of…
Yesterday, we told you about YACHT, a Los Angeles-based band and romantic duo who said a sex tape of theirs had been stolen by someone who was planning to circulate it widely. It was a hoax, and they tried months ago to get our company in on it. This is fucking gross.
It’s been widely and wrongly reported in recent days that Michigan passed a law making oral and/or anal sex illegal. A better way to put it: existing language making oral and anal sex illegal might stay on the books, because nobody wants to fight about it, because it would get messy.
Congresswoman Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, who’s called for better enforcement of laws against online harassment, says someone called police Sunday night to falsely report an active shooter at her home. Clark told the Boston Globe that officers descended on her front lawn, some armed with long guns.
Magic in the form of a wily rodent dubbed “Pizza Rat” waltzed into our lives last fall, causing even the coldest hearts to be charmed by his carb-loving antics. He was soon joined by brothers-in-arms such as “Selfie Rat” and most recently, “Rat Rat.” But what if everything you knew about Pizza Rat and his comrades was…
Irving, Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne appeared in Glenn Beck’s bunker on Tuesday evening to defend her city’s response to Ahmed Mohamed, the ninth-grader arrested at school for making a clock. She also indicated that there’s something fishy about Mohamed and his family. I wonder where this is going.
Here's a strange story out of California: in the early afternoon on Monday of this week, 30-year-old Vallejo resident Aaron Quinn called the police, saying that his girlfriend, 29-year-old Denise Huskins, had been kidnapped from his house that morning and was being held for ransom. Huskins' father spoke to the local…
"Jace Connors," the man who made several bizarre and threatening videos about game developer Brianna Wu, has revealed to BuzzFeed news that he's actually Jan Rankowski, the member of a "provocative," as BuzzFeed puts it, cult comedy group. And he says — wait for it — that he's now being harassed by Gamergate and…
Former porn star Sasha Grey would just like to make sure we're all clear on the fact that she's not dead. Contrary to the reports of some dicey-looking Internet memes, she also wasn't working as a nurse for the Russian Army, and has never—not even once—been captured by Ukrainian soldiers and then brutally murdered.…
A very, very fake story about a feminist who aborted a male fetus out of principle has been circulating wildly this week, even though it's absurd and even after Snopes looked into it and determined it "probably false." The story, titled, "I Aborted My Baby — Because It Was a Boy" ran on a bullshit site called…
Bad news: A kid who said that he'd died and gone to Heaven and proceeded to cowrite a bestselling book titled The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven has recanted. He now says he neither died nor went to Heaven.
Thalia, a Mexican superstar, recently revealed that she had her ribs surgically removed to make her waist appear thinner and that she keeps the ribs in a jar as a souvenir. She shared a picture of said jar on Instagram.
According to anonymous sources, there is a mountain of evidence that proves the story of the three-year-old girl who was asked to leave a KFC because of her scars is a hoax.
This week, Twitter and Facebook's highly visible #BringBackOurGirls campaign highlighted the plight of 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. One problem: the most visible images used in that campaign are pictures of girls that aren't Nigerian. Or kidnapped. Or even technically girls…
A woman in Canada who was pregnant with quintuplets shocked both hospital staff and her boyfriend when it turns out she wasn't pregnant at all. With any-lets. I've heard of faked cancer, faked weddings, faked girlfriends who live in Canada who were met "at summer camp," but this. This is powered up fakery.
