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.
On Tuesday evening, a storm rolled into New York City that was so powerful that it downed trees and water towers, leading to major delays on the area’s roads and commuter trains. This meant that one of the safest places to be—not to mention one of the most reliable ways to get around—was the city’s rickety old subway…
Earlier today, Jezebel published a look at the people behind Lil Tay, a 9-year-old girl and controversial Instagram personality, whose fame is the result of participating in some extremely adult beefs. Shortly after the story was published, Alex Goller Gelbard, who works with Tay in some kind of management capacity,…
Social media stardom is a brutal Darwinistic competition, a craven and utterly shameless battle for space on our screens and in our brains carried out by a phalanx of influencers, thinkfluencers, beauty vloggers, charlatans, health quacks, spiritual phonies, and unhinged vegans. Recently, Lil Tay entered into this…
Sarah Palin is up to something new and inspiring: offering discount codes for teas that make you poop a lot.
Bella Thorne—topic of daily tabloid headlines, former Disney star, lovelorn teen allergic to the sun and my personal, problematic favorite—wants you to know she’s not who you think she is, maaaan. In a new video collaboration with Vogue/Vice (you read that correctly), we’re given an inside look into the “real” BT, an…
The dewy and hydrated skincare-adjacent drama continues apace at Deciem, the company that makes cheap and effective serums and potions, thanks to CEO Brandon Truaxe’s insistence on running the company’s official Instagram account and using it to air petty grievances.
Instagram is a grim reaper in a bikini, no matter how fabulous Khloe’s colossal art installation of a baby shower may make it appear. The New York Post reports the story of a 26-year-old with serious hustle who ran up $10,000 in debt while interning on a mission to live an “Instagram-worthy” life. Needless to say,…
Reese Witherspoon was taking a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard today when she ran into her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was installed in 2010, per Buzzfeed, and as poor Reese discovered, eight years of getting stomped on does a number on an arbitrary piece of terrazzo. So, naturally, she gave it a…
Years before Cardi B was a platinum-selling rapper, she was an avid and sensible administrator of advice and op-eds via her Instagram. Though she still reminds us of this acumen multiple times daily via @IAmCardiB, her latest Instavid really takes it back to why we loved her in the first place.
There’s beef cooking between two fashionistas over their bafflingly similar Instagram feeds, and folks, there’s a lot to chew on.
A post from Grub Street has drawn our attention to the world of competitively gorgeous pies on Instagram, and they’re the rare food photo fad that is both visually stunning and something you’d actually want to eat. The piece particularly focused on the work of Lauren Ko, who has recently achieved some viral fame for…
It was less than two weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration. Things were not as bad as they would soon come to be, but they were bad enough. Morale was extremely, extremely low. And then suddenly, out of nowhere, Beyoncé offered us hope on Instagram. As a nation, we smashed that like.
