Bad tweets happen to the best of us. Perhaps you’ve shot off an angry response to a troll telling them to buzz off or accidentally butt-tweeted a confusing string of numbers and letters that your followers interpret to be some sort of secret code. Maybe you’re drunk and decide it would be funny to post things in the…
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…
The New York Times’s social questions column has provided a definitive answer to a burning social media question I know you’re desperate to understand: “When a White Person Can Use Brown Emoji Hands.” When I read that headline, a familiar sense of dread knotted itself into a Trump-shaped hairball inside me.
On Wednesday, the Lansing State Journal reported that a public relations firm sent Michigan State University the bill for more than $500,000 in expenses, covering work done this past January. The services rendered? Monitoring the social media activity of individuals in some way associated with or commenting upon the…
Snapchat has removed an ad that ran on the app asking users if they would rather “slap Rihanna” or “punch Chris Brown.”
About a year ago, in early 2017, I briefly joined a stress-management program that functioned sort of like a support group. I was feeling brittle and panicked; alongside millions of other Americans, the generalized anxiety that normally keeps me company had grown exponentially in the aftermath of the 2016 election.
In 2009, Ashley Jordan went to a party at her friend Thomas Oliver’s house in Portland, Oregon. The two had met a few months earlier at a bar. They had a few friends in common; both were part of a small scene that centered around the local music community. It was towards the end of the evening and most everyone was…
A week after Louise Linton’s l’affaire Instagram, the Treasury’s Office of Inspector General said that they are reviewing Steve Mnuchin and Linton’s use of a government plane to view the eclipse.
The social media standoff between Kendall Jenner and popular Williamsburg “haunt” Baby’s All Right over an alleged failure to tip has escalated, which is perfectly fine by me, as it is the only nuclear confrontation I am emotionally capable of engaging with right now.
Although I assume there are myriad, I do not follow any Ellie Shechet fan accounts on Instagram. Unlike me, Ivanka Trump follows many accounts devoted to being devoted to her.
Mohamed Hadid, real estate developer and father to supermodels Gigi and Bella, was recently sentenced to community service and required to pay a series of fines after pleading no contest to misdemeanor connected to a gigantically illegal and almost impossibly unattractive unfinished Bel Air giga-mansion that appears…
Alina Gonzalez, a former employee of the popular lifestyle blog Cupcakes and Cashmere, has released one of the longest Instagram stories I personally have ever seen to publicly hash out the circumstances of her firing. In the words of Alina’s Instagram story: “Every. Single. BOSS. I have spoken to. Who, hashtag, work…
Because we now live in a dimension that is two parts Hieronymus Bosch’s The Last Judgment and one part Alice Through the Looking Glass, absurdity now rules the day. And so, it falls to me to report that a bill inspired by Trump’s “covfefe” tweet is making its way through Congress.
The president’s supporters enjoy him because he frequently “speaks his mind,” especially on Twitter, openly and without regard for “political correctness” or the “truth.” On Thursday, however, the carefree tweeting style of the president and his aides were in clear and unambiguous conflict with statutory prohibitions…
Kim Kardashian has been consumed by 1989. Not the actual year but the look of the year or, perhaps more accurately, an idea of what the year should look like in photographs. The actual year is arbitrary, merely a point to describe Kardashian’s new photographic aesthetic. Her newest obsession, the stylized…
Active duty and retired members of the United States Marine Corps are being investigated for sharing nude photos of women—many of them fellow Marines—on a secret Facebook page. Some of these photographs were purportedly taken without the knowledge and consent of the subject.
Idaho Judge Randy Stoker recently ruled that Cody Herrera, a man convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl, could be released on probation under the rarely enforced state law that he not engage in sex outside marriage for its duration. In his decision, he mused that the rape probably happened because of “social media.”
Last Saturday, comedian Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live and, in his opening monologue, likened supporters of Donald Trump to Chris Brown fans. He explained that in each case, fans remain steadfast even if they “don’t condone the [individual’s] extracurriculars.” Of course, folded into the joke is a critique of…
On December 24, 2016, a 16-year-old named Reagan tweeted something no teen had ever tweeted before (probably): she had decorated an entire bible for her boyfriend, using excellent teen handwriting and brightly colored illustrations. The tweet begat faves; the faves begat retweets. The faves and retweets begat a bunch…
