Visits: 21 As employees in tech face layoffs, an emoji meets its moment. When Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters in late October carrying a sink, it seemed like that image might be the lasting one to exemplify the unfolding …
Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
Visits: 20 A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They call it algospeak. To hear some people on …
Pop Stars Are Mugging for TikTok. Fans Are Loving It.
Visits: 17 Performers like Dua Lipa and Rosalía are peppering their tours with dance moves and gestures that can seem specifically engineered to go viral. In some cases, they are. By the time Dua Lipa announced that there would be …
What if You Suddenly Won $2 Billion?
Visits: 17 As excitement peaked over a record-breaking Powerball, TikTok creators cashed in by offering financial advice. Unless you are the person (or people) who bought Tuesday’s winning Powerball ticket in Los Angeles County, stop reading. This article is not …
Noah Beck Doesn’t Know Why He’s Famous
Visits: 23 Noah Beck’s first TikTok post was a flop. In January 2020, while home in Arizona during winter break from the University of Portland, his sister, Tatum, introduced him to TikTok. “She had, like, 8,000 followers, and I thought, …
On Twitter, Who Needs a Check Mark When You Can Have a Rat?
Visits: 20 Elon Musk wants Twitter users to pay to be verified. An artist offers a wry alternative. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, wants $8. After buying Twitter in a $44 billion deal just last week, he …
Who Wears Crop Tops to the Office?
Visits: 25 Young employees, many of them new to office jobs, are bringing a wardrobe staple usually reserved for the weekends into the workplace. Shortly after Santina Rizzi graduated from Florida State University in spring 2021 with a degree in …
An Egg Yolk Omelet, Special Salad Dressing and a Negroni Sbagliato, Please
Visits: 21 The menu of mid-late 2022. If you were to place an order this week at a restaurant that exclusively served viral foods, here’s what you’d be eating: a salad tossed in a special dressing made by Olivia Wilde; …
‘Christian Girl Autumn’ Goes Back to Basic
Visits: 28 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Caitlin Covington was having a bad hair day. For many people, Ms. Covington’s dense, brown hair, curled into long, loose ringlets, would probably be considered an enviable hair day. But for Ms. Covington, a lifestyle …
The Fight for the Soul of Pilates
Visits: 27 Joseph Pilates believed he had created an exercise program that would stand the test of time and contribute to the well-being of anyone who practiced it seriously. And while Pilates continues to grow in popularity 55 years after …