When Betty Simpson was diagnosed with cancer, her great-grandson set up an Instagram for her to celebrate her life and keep a record of her battle with the disease. What neither suspected is that Betty would become a bona-fide internet icon, amassing thousands of followers on her account and even attracting the…
Welcome back to Selfie Loathing. Every Friday we round up celebrity Instagrams so we can watch what happens when star turn the cameras on themselves. This week: Lena Dunham's chilling with the ladies of SNL; Joan Rivers is dining on Cheetos and Champagne; Drew Barrymore is making pasta from scratch and January Jones…
Let's get straight to the point: Some wit is carrying around cutouts of Leonardo DiCaprio, snapping pics at sights around New York City and documenting their rambles together on an Instagram account called "My Day With Leo." It is brilliant.
Guess what ladies? We've taken over the social web. The average American spends thirty-seven minutes each day on social media, and over half of those people have vaginas. We also share more news bits than men. We're number one!
As long as Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen do what parents do and share stuff about their child(ren) with the world, people are going to have an issue with it and media outlets are going to write about it like it's interesting. We're in for a long slog.
The selfie has gone through many incarnations, from standing in front of an olde-tymey box camera to snapping a mirror reflection to MySpaceFace to Sparrowface to The Squinch. And now, according to Pamela Grossman, the director of visual trends at Getty Images, a new generation of girls into "ugly selfies" are staging "a…
Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, America's number one Vanity Smurf waterpark. Every Friday, we check out what happens when the stars play paparazzi and turn the cameras on themselves. This week: Lupita and Fassbender do a selfie; Ed Sheeran and Kat Dennings really like cats; Amanda Seyfried's hairdo looks complicated;…
Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen had a child over the weekend. Congratulations! But wait – maybe next time don't tell us so much about how you had that child, says Good Morning America, which aired a segment Thursday about where "the line between 'okay' and 'TMI'" is when it comes to sharing on social media.
A National Guard soldier has been suspended over a photograph depicting her and a group of other soldiers posing with what appears to be a casket for a military funeral, along with the caption "we put the FUN back in funeral."
This British teenager who bears an uncanny resemblance to Sherlock Holmes star Benedict Cumberbatch has become an Internet sensation, thanks to a few selfies he posted to Instagram.
Welcome back to Selfie Loathing! Every Friday, we round up celebrity Instagrams and present them without comment. This week: Chloe Grace Moretz plays with a knife; Lenny Kravitz goes record shopping; Lupita Nyong'o eats chocolate; and Katy Perry's Valentine is a real dog. Enjoy.
For a spread in March's W magazine, photographers Mert Alas and Max Piggott took pictures of some people who are famous in real life and therefore famous on social media naked in bed. The shoot was called "Pillow Tweets" and was styled by Edward Enninful.
Welcome back to Selfie Loathing! Every Friday we sit back and watch as Vanity Smurf stars turn their cameras on themselves.Celebrity Instagrams! This week: Nicki Minaj ditches her wig; Katy Perry meets a talented dog; Mindy Kaling hangs with Schmidt; and John Stamos is hotter than the hinges of hell. Enjoy.
Welcome back to America's premiere Vanity Smurf playground. Every Friday, we round up celebrity Instagrams and present them without comment. This week: Oprah received a fuckton of flowers for her birthday; Coco Rocha's doing roller-skate lunges; Mindy Kaling has a cute new love interest; and Beyoncé's in bed. Enjoy.
Newsweek just ran a monster-length piece about tween girls and sex called Sex and the Single Tween, finally giving readers access to the enduring question: So are Our Nation's Precious Little Girls sluts, or what?
Welcome back to Selfie Loathing. Every Friday, we round up a batch of celebrity Instagrams, so you can see what happens when the stars turn the cameras on themselves. This week: Snoop Dogg smokes so much the fire department has to intervene; John Stamos remembers the crosses of the '90s, and if you do nothing else…
OK, admittedly this is a pretty cool gimmick to try, especially for a high school student. After watching a documentary, Chaz Rorick of Rochester, New York noticed a resemblance to his outfit and President Harry Truman's. The realization sparked a pretty amazing idea.
Here we go again. A fraternity at Arizona State University was suspended this week after throwing (and I can't believe I'm actually writing this) a particularly offensive Martin Luther King, Jr. Day party, in which participants dressed in basketball jerseys, flashed gang signs and drank from watermelon shaped cups.
Madonna has non-apologized for using a racial slur on an instagram photo of her son, Rocco. While Madonna is known for her outrageous antics (I know that makes her sound more like a cartoon cat than anything else) the internet has been up in arms about her recent behavior. First she FaceBooked a photo of her son and…
Welcome back to Selfie Loathing! every Friday we round up star-posted photos into one easily digestible full-of-fiber snack. This week: Rihanna is in a bikini in Brazil; Madonna doesn't let an injury keep her from her workout routine; and Lupita Nyong'o is glam even in a bathrobe. Celebrity Instagrams, presented…
