Visits: 23 Male 20-somethings are showing off their messy apartments in a video series that poses the implicit question, “You live like this?” In her new video series, the comedian Rachel Coster explores some of the foulest, most unsightly corners …
‘Let’s See You at 21’ Puts Fun Spin on the Unrelenting March of Time
Visits: 23 Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users responded to a recent prompt asking them to post pictures of their younger selves. Photo quality varies. Most of the photos are slightly faded. The hairlines fuller. Some feature braces. Old friends. …
What’s ‘In’ for 2024? In-and-Out Lists, Apparently.
Visits: 27 In the final days of 2023, social media was overrun with tongue-in-cheek predictions for the year ahead from regular people moonlighting as professional prognosticators. Extra-large bags, silver jewelry and gardening are in. Quiet luxury, podcasts and late bedtimes …
Top Social Media Trends of 2023: Roman Empire, Grimace Shake, Keith Lee and More
Visits: 50 You may have forgotten — or wanted to forget — what happened on the internet in 2023. We’re here to refresh your memory. Algorithms are getting good, alarmingly so, at feeding you content targeted to your weird and …
Is Having Too Many Followers a Turnoff?
Visits: 43 Some women with jobs that require a high degree of visibility online say they have faced romantic rejection over the high number of their social media followers. A few years ago, Sara Zeljkovic, a 25-year-old living in Toronto, …
Daddy, Are You an Influencer?
Visits: 38 Fueled by the pandemic and TikTok, a market for content made by fathers has staying power. Meet the “Dadfluencers.” Like many parents in the early months of the pandemic, Dave Ogleton was struggling. His business selling nutrition products …
These Cats Do Their Own Stunts. They Film Them, Too.
Visits: 25 In one video, the athlete pauses, assesses the height and leaps. He tries to free-climb up the side of a building, before jumping back to the ground. In another, he leaps across a roof, his shadow stretching out …
Sharing It All After Baring It All
Visits: 21 Known first as a provocative Instagram influencer and sex blogger, Eileen Kelly is now equally frank about her mental health struggles. On a freezing January afternoon, the podcaster and influencer Eileen Kelly welcomed a reporter into her spacious …
Happy Low-Key New Year!
Visits: 28 Some people are giving themselves permission to replace grand ambitions with more realistic expectations for 2023. Erin Monroe, who lives in upstate New York and works in human services, knows that 2022 — our supposed post-pandemic, Roaring Twenties, …
The Unsinkable Memes of ‘Titanic’
Visits: 22 How a movie released before the iMac became a mainstay of internet culture. Katee Forbis often encounters a GIF on social media that shows a white-haired woman with a faraway look saying, “It’s been 84 years.” Ms. Forbis …