At least eight people have died at Kaaterskill Falls, a picturesque waterfall in the Catskill Mountains, since 1992. And we might have Instagram to thank for the increase in fatalities.
NBC News has an update on the phenomenon of pop-up experiences seemingly engineered specifically for the perfect viral selfie—things like the Museum of Ice Cream. They call them “Instagram playgrounds,” which is the best possible way to describe these places. “You can huff and buff all you want and say, ‘I can’t…
The first thing I noticed was all the pink. The pink carpet and pink velvet rope that led into the pink-lit bar, where you could procure a pink drink with a pink drink ticket. Inside it smelled pink—more specifically, like the cotton candy that was being served by women wearing pink wigs. All of this pink was how I…
Instagram influencers have begun promoting yet another chickenshit product, only this time it’s actually luxury chicken diapers. They are very literal, these Insta-fluencers.
Republican Illinois state Rep. Nick Sauer, who is, ironically, a member of the state House Sexual Discrimination and Harassment Task Force, is stepping down amid allegations that he posed as his ex online and shared her nude photos on the internet without her consent.
In 2006 Dove was on a mission to show the world “real beauty.” As part of an ongoing campaign to make women feel comfortable in their own skin, the company released an ad showing the labor-intensive process of transforming a woman into a model. In sped-up time, her fresh face gets covered in makeup, her hair is curled…
Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande are still madly in love or whatever, but unlike everyone I went to camp with, they will no longer use Instagram to throw that love in everyone else’s face all the time.
During a Q&A session held on her Instagram stories, beloved writer and filmmaker Nancy Meyers revealed several bits of information that made me raise an eyebrow and whisper, “Iconic.”
On Monday, lifestyle model and University of Miami student Katarina Zarutskie shared with her 13,000 followers (she now has close to 25,000) a post hinting at a shark-biting incident she had endured a month earlier. She was quickly bombarded by media requests and today we know her story.
Actress Julia Roberts has finally joined Instagram, a medium perfected by peers like Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Garner, and shared an inaugural photo teasing all the smile-heavy content to come.
50 Cent attacks people on social media so often, you’d swear he was an unemployed 25-year-old living in his mother’s basement. So antagonistic is he that “50 Cent Mocks...” is practically an online headline subgenre. He mocked an autistic teen. He mocked Kanye West for getting lipo. He’s mocked Rick Ross dozens of…
This past spring, celebrity news and lifestyle website PopSugar came under fire for allegedly stealing images from social media influencers. PopSugar was accused of not only imitating several influencers’ Instagram profiles, but also replacing their commissioned affiliate links–the main source of income for many style…
In the past few years, Jennifer Garner has transformed from Hollywood sweetheart and half of Bennifer 2.0 to one of our culture’s most awkward and soothing personalities. After dumping Ben Affleck (thereby extricating herself from his many rumored troubles), becoming the face of a credit card, focusing her acting…
Retired runway model and working print model Gisele Bündchen appears on the cover of the most recent issue of Vogue, which would be a cause for many a yawn if not for some comments about the state of the modeling industry in 2018—namely, the Instagram modeling industry. Bündchen said her sister started her Instagram…
As embedded as we are in the age of scammers—where regular people use their cunning, wit, and verve to smoothly shimmy their way into shit for free—it is no surprise that Instagram influencers are thriving in this new economy, grifting their way to an empty sort of fame, built on nothing. This week’s target? Luxury…
Martha Stewart, America’s greatest and truest treasure, has posted her first selfie. Or, at least, she has posted the first selfie she thinks is “good,” though, certainly, Martha Stewart has never taken a bad photograph in her life.
In a real drag bit of news for fans of top-shelf eyeliner and science, tattoo artist and makeup genius Kat Von D revealed that she’s against vaccines in an Instagram post Thursday night. Von D, who recently announced her pregnancy with new husband Leafar Seyer of the band Prayers, wrote about feeling judged for the…
Last we saw her, Lil Tay, the shit-talking Insta-famed 9-year-old and deep source of adult concern, appeared smoking hookah in a WorldStar video, which seemed to finally hit the limit of acceptability for a kid who has appeared bathing in hundred dollar bills, driving, dropping the n-word, and smoking a breadstick.…
… She’s having a good day.
