On Wednesday, Reddit shut down a subreddit called Deepfake, which refers to the practice of using face-swap technology to create pornography featuring celebrities. They have banned “deepfake” porn from the site entirely.
Amy Schumer’s The Leather Special premiered on Netflix March 7, and reviews of it on the online streaming service are very, very bad.
A few months ago, I encountered a Facebook troll with a remarkable cover photo. It was a still from the movie The Matrix, the iconic moment when Neo stops a wall of bullets—but Keanu Reeves’ head had been photoshopped out and replaced with the head of Adolf Hitler.
Because culture as we know it in 2016 is an ouroboros, a bright green snake eating its own tail and rolling like a tumbleweed across the desert of the internet, there exists a woman named Barb who just happens to look like Barb from Stranger Things.
Weddings are essentially performative ceremonies of love. They’re meant to be shared with the people who matter in your life, and adding a particular relation or friend to your wedding party necessarily makes them a part of that performance. This bride is facing a predicament: should she let her hated sister pay to…
If there’s something the Internet loves almost as much as feuds, it’s optical illusions that lead to feuds. Here’s a new one for ya.
Orangutan’s are freaking terrifying. They can literally tear your appendages off, and I do not want them grabbing any handfuls of flesh on my body anywhere.
Finally, a memoir that actually stands a chance of being worthwhile. Ellen Pao is working on Reset, billed as “a fearless first-person account exposing the toxic culture that pervades the tech industry and defined her experiences both as a Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist and Reddit CEO.”
We’re living in an era of unprecedented pornography consumption: last year nearly 80 billion videos were streamed on PornHub alone. Stories of sneaking nudie magazines out of a familial secret stash are essentially apocryphal now that you can see whoever you want doing whatever you want with just a basic knowledge of…
The FitBit Activity Tracker—that bracelet thing that makes your parents feel like they’re participating in Modernity—captures all kinds of real-time data related to your health, which can add up to some unsettling insights into your general disposition (for example, it knows when you’ve been dumped).
If you disrespect Bernie Sanders, you’re going to get a visit from his social media goons. They are passionate about campaign finance reform, staying active in one’s 70s, and being very, very manly.
I had just finished Christmas dinner with my family when I got the call: “A picture of you is on the front page of r/funny,” my friend told me. I’m not a regular Reddit user, but I know about r/funny—it’s a popular subpage, a place with a lot of cat pictures. Funny? Had I been funny? I traced back through the past…
The Serena Williams and Drake romance that seemed to be blossoming this summer looks like it was never that serious (for Serena). Us Weekly reports, via sources, that Williams is now dating Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
A man on Reddit announces that he and his wife are the proud parents-to-be of an adorable, red-faced, leering demon, whose first photo is above. This is so, so metal.
After weeks of turmoil and bad press and many, many outraged posts by very angry people without a sense of precisely what free speech protections Americans are afforded by the Bill of Rights, Reddit has announced some proposed changes to its content policy. Basically, the current thinking is they’ll lock the really…
Only a few days after a band of angry redditors demanded her resignation, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao is inadvertently giving them exactly what they wanted.
In further proof that Supreme Court Justice and imaginary Jezebel best friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the best, a Reddit user reports that she made RBG a lace collar, and Ginsburg responded with a gracious thank you note. You just knew she was great about writing thank you notes, right?
Reddit, a popular site for creepers and fans of upskirt shots, is in the midst of a turmoil of its own making. On Friday the site fired AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor who, by all accounts, was good at her job and beloved by the community. In response, moderators of popular subreddits—many of whom are volunteers of…
Ellen Pao’s been interim CEO at Reddit for more than six months now, but just like any new gig at the sewage treatment plant, she’s still wading through a bunch of shit. Reddit announced yesterday that as part of a new harassment prevention policy, they’re banning five of the worst subreddits. Reddit users calmly…
The photo of an Iowa man proposing to his girlfriend in front of a bride and groom at a wedding reception that went viral a couple of weeks ago was not actually a dick move like we all thought. The photo, captioned on Reddit as “Any girl’s wedding nightmare,” showed a man on his knee and asking his girlfriend to marry…
