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Internet Culture Archive

Archives for July 2018

Explainers
Alt-right internet mobs are attacking celebrities with their own jokes. The irony is stark.Alt-right internet mobs are attacking celebrities with their own jokes. The irony is stark.
Explainers

Shock humor fueled the alt-right — and now it’s using outrage over shock humor to take people down online.

By Emily St. James and Aja Romano
Culture
Dan Harmon is the latest Hollywood figure targeted by a deep-diving alt-right crusadeDan Harmon is the latest Hollywood figure targeted by a deep-diving alt-right crusade
Culture

The creator of Community and Rick and Morty has apologized and exited Twitter over an offensive 2009 comedy short.

By Aja Romano
Culture
We Rate Dogs and archnemesis Brent have reconciled thanks to a puppyWe Rate Dogs and archnemesis Brent have reconciled thanks to a puppy
Culture

Charlie the puppy just helped teach us a vital lesson about crossing the ideological aisle in 2018.

By Aja Romano
Culture
Sacha Baron Cohen’s political provocations are exhausting and dangerousSacha Baron Cohen’s political provocations are exhausting and dangerous
Culture

Baron Cohen’s prankster provocations are a bad match for our current cultural climate.

By Aja Romano
Technology
Twitter’s wiping tens of millions of accounts from its platformTwitter’s wiping tens of millions of accounts from its platform
Technology

Check your follower count.

By Emily Stewart
Culture
Redditors love Infinity War’s Thanos so much, 300,000 of them just faked their own internet deathsRedditors love Infinity War’s Thanos so much, 300,000 of them just faked their own internet deaths
Culture

It’s the biggest mass ban in Reddit history — but unlike Thanos’s victims, they were all asking for it.

By Aja Romano
Explainers
Plane Bae: how an in-flight matchmaker broke the internetPlane Bae: how an in-flight matchmaker broke the internet
Explainers

Plane Bae was the best and worst of social media.

By Alex Abad-Santos

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