Internet Culture
Vox’s coverage of the latest memes, social media controversies, YouTube drama, and more.
The Kardashian-Jenner clan are shutting down all of their subscription-based apps, effectively ending an era.
End-of-year data hauls from the major social platforms show a whole bunch of sameness.
The political consulting firm reportedly used personal data secretly harvested from 87 million Facebook users.
We’ve adapted our entire culture around Facebook. That makes “just quitting” easier said than done.
The latest viral Twitter meme suggests all dudes live in mostly empty hellscapes.
Why shouldn’t games be as gross as our bodies?
Tumblr’s adult content ban is already harming the site’s vibrant community.
How a culture war over the site’s most popular user, PewDiePie, could determine the future of the platform.
PewDiePie has 76 million followers — and a history of flirting with alt-right culture. The potential consequences are grave.
You’re using product reviews all wrong.
Why some people are paying strangers on Fiverr $5 to slime themselves.
Trump tweets about his trade war with China, and a meme is born.
Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.
Its parent company, Facebook, has had them for more than two years.
The co-founder of Viral Nation explains how influencers can command $100,000 for posts on YouTube or Instagram.
The 1.4-ton Holstein-Friesian dairy steer was deemed too big to kill.
Your new holiday tradition: A Very Scary White House Christmas!
Three years into the fad.
How bizarre channels like Troom Troom and 5-Minute Crafts took over YouTube.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg received love, spells, and offers of organ donation from social media following her hospitalization.
Fandom can be an expensive hobby, but there are also ways to get paid for your time and affection.
This year the memes are all about the importance of voting.
A manager for famous animals explains the big business of pets on social media.
“Tesla is incredibly important for the future of sustainable transport and energy generation,” Musk said in a recent interview.
Black Olympians Florence Griffith–Joyner and Tommie Smith got a Carter family salute.
Here are all the things you didn’t know about the 35-year-old scarefest.
The ghosts are back, and they’ve brought friends!
And Rihanna and Kanye and A$AP Rocky.
Contention over the “like” button reveals deeper tensions among Twitter and its user base.
Why are the international superrich suddenly so clumsy?
How the concept of “false flags” traveled from the conspiratorial fringe to cable news.
Writer Chuck Wendig found out the hard way that fake internet outrage can have real consequences.
The massive data dump reveals how trolls disrupt and destabilize local and global politics.
Can’t we just eat lunch?
Plenty of brands are launching their own social platforms, with the goal of gamifying shopping and commodifying friendship.
The hot new holiday toy weds unboxing culture with Amazon culture.
One family’s viral #HimToo feud gave us the best meme of the week so far.
Kevin Ma’s Hypebeast media empire rules the sneaker-loving internet. And now? A navy yard.
Hank Green’s debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, shows what he’s learned about internet fame.
Why the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper remake of a Hollywood classic is inspiring the internet.